• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The minimum requirements are there for them to set a lower limit on what they’re willing to support. You do whatever you want, just don’t complain when something doesn’t work, or breaks because you’re bypassing those limits.

    People do this all the time and then complain and blame Microsoft for issues when they are using an configuration they were told was unsupported and might have issues.

    • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      The minimum requirements are there for them to set a lower limit on what they’re willing to support.

      I agree and they’re free to do whatever they want. I get to have an opinion on their actions though.

      What I take issue with is they are enforcing minimum specs because they’re choosing to put a bunch of stuff in the operating system that won’t run (well) below those specs. In other words they are choosing the job that the operating system has to do (GenAI in this case) and I think that is up to the user, not the OS vendor.

      If the GenAI stuff they want to build in were optional then you could choose to purchase a cheaper computer or upgrade your existing hardware to a current OS. By going this route Microsoft is artificially inflating hardware requirements.