Do you recommend Windows 11 to your friends ?

<p>If they issue more updates, sure. If you’re reformatting a computer for someone, you could do it now rather than later. If they’re using an older CPU or don’t have TPM 2.0, you can bypass the checks in Windows Setup and give their computer a longer lifespan rather than being thrown in the bin. I’ve already tested it on a 1st-gen Core i5 HP laptop with 4GB of RAM and an SSD. It works about as good as Windows 10 did, but the latest builds of Windows 10 were unstable. Windows 11 runs cooler on that laptop than the last version that worked reliably, which was 20H1, yet it still loads up quickly, applications launch as fast as they should, and YouTube video plays fine in HD. The new scheduler seems to throttle the processor more aggressively, but it still clocks up in speed when it needs to. I had the same result with a 5th-gen Core i5 laptop too. There are no indications that Windows itself is incompatible with any of the restrictions Microsoft says it has – there are just checks during the Windows Setup phase that you can bypass. The core functionality that is similar to Windows 10 has the same requirements. You won’t see the TPM-enhanced security, and you won’t be protected against Spectre/Meltdown variants, but you aren’t any better off in Windows 10 either. The difference is, if you stay on Windows 10, Microsoft would have you throw your computer away sooner than you would need to.</p>