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Apple have made these ridiculous security changes over the last few versions of OSX that have been an absolute fucking ballache to deal with when it comes to creating and releasing software.
If Microsoft had done half of the gatekeeping enforcement bullshit that Apple have done since Mojave, they'd be dragged across the coals. But Apple get a pass.... presumably "coz shiny!!!!"
Windows does irritate me, don't get me wrong, but I think that's just an inherent level of annoyance at IT and is most likely due in part to my lack of knowledge and my user error.
My laptop is getting on a bit and was a bad purchase in the first place, so whilst I very much do need to work out a better replacement system I lack the confidence to find a suitable machine given how badly it has gone in the past. A bit like the thing of knowing the difference between a £500 machine and a £200 machine that's overpriced by £300. Also then having to contend with a new OS whether that's W11 or whatever Apple are on these days doesn't exactly fill me with joy so I'm just making sure all my files are multiple backed up so when my laptop explodes I'm still ok
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But over the last few years the decisions made at Apple have made my day job much more of a pain in the ass than it needed to be. Because of their security "improvements" like enforced codesigning verification through their servers - how the fuck they expected anyone to do that when they are shipping gigabytes of audio content is anyone's guess.
This is part of the reason as to why you've seen all these music software companies move over to license managers and service centres to deliver content - it allows you to just codesign your binaries and not have to schlep all of your audio-data to the Apple servers for literally zero benefit.
p.s. Mac gets just as much flack all the time. They got so much bad press for releasing the first phone over £1k...then Samsung comes out a couple of years with a £2k phone and nobody bat an eyelid. I am currently HATING their new choice on the light/dark of the tabs on Safari, it is utterly idiotic.
Which tab am I looking at?
You'd think it's the one that is on the lighter shade???
My perfectly working i7 CPU 980 (Quad core) ,24 gigs of ram, SSD drive computer is not compatible with windows 11.
Surely this should be brought up and made aware of these polluting companies.Apple is just as bad!
Also I have you blocked too.
If the tables were turned I bet we'd hear more and more bitching about Apple's OS.
As it is I reckon they're both decent, mature operating systems each of which has its share of irritating niggles. Neither of them is perfect but Jesus wept, anyone remember trying to install a driver for a no-mark printer in DOS 6?
EDIT: It's obviously perfectly possible to support older CPUs from the same family. Hell, Linux still supports 486s, as well as 30+ entirely different architectures, and is still the highest-performing kernel under most circumstances. The TPM restrictions are a business decision, much the same as Apple's CPU and EFI shenanigans have been over the years.
We've stopped making physical products for all of the above reasons.
I don't disagree that it's a business decision. But I've emphasised the important bit - whilst. I know it's technically possible. But you can't have both goals.
Far more likely that they cooked it up in conjunction with their partners and customers in the hardware space to kickstart the hardware business after the downturn.
And, while it's true that an i7 980 is ancient, that's not where they drew the line. Most 7th gen Intel CPUs aren't supported either - and they're still high-performing CPUs for most workloads these days. In fact, a hell of a lot of PCs from a couple of years ago aren't supported either, because of the lack of a TPM module (or the lack of TPM module availability).
Most of those machines will have to be chucked away if an upgrade to Win11 is necessary. It's the very opposite of being environmentally-friendly, it's just going to create more e-waste for the 95% of users who won't go near a registry hack.
Not only that, but 9th gen and above Intel CPUs are actually more power-hungry and generate way more heat than any previous generation anyway. I've got a dual-socket 16 core Xeon machine from 10 years ago in the other room that runs cooler and uses less power from the socket than the TDP of a single 11th gen i7 CPU alone (and those i7s have been known to use a lot more than their TDP under heavy load).
https://allthings.how/list-of-all-intel-and-amd-processors-not-supported-by-windows-11/
The newest ones seem to be 2017 releases. I'm pretty okay with that to be honest.