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Windows 11 hardware requirements made a mockery of by an Intel Pentium 4 processor
As the screenshots below show, Microsoft considers the Intel Pentium 4 661 a supported processor. Intel released the Pentium 4 661 in early 2006, with a solitary core to its name. Apparently, Microsoft forgot to add any Intel Family 15 (Netburst) SKUs in its unsupported processors list for Windows 11.
Hence, the PC Health Check tool sees that the Pentium 4 661 has a 3.6 GHz boost clock, which satisfies one of Windows 11's requirements. Curiously, the tool states that the Pentium 4 661 has two or more cores, even though it lists it as having one.
@Carlos_SM1995 has even got Windows 11 (Build 22000.258) running on a Pentium 4 661. Supposedly, Windows Update still works too, highlighting the ridiculousness of Microsoft's overtures regarding Windows 11 compatibility.
Windows 11 final (Build 22000.258) running on Intel Pentium 4 (11m4s video)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 20 2021, @07:41AM (1 child)
We'd be an all Linux household except I'm in law school and they require that exams use this POS...
https://web.respondus.com/he/lockdownbrowser/ [respondus.com]
I've tried everything I could to convince the school's server that I am in fact using respondus, or I need an alternative, all to no avail.
It won't even launch in an emulated environment either.
If anyone knows of a way to get that thing going under Linux or some way to convince the server I'm using it when I'm actually within Linux, I'd be much obliged.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 20 2021, @12:23PM
Yuck, I'm sorry.
You should be able to set your VM to prevent detection of the VM by running applications. This isn't really foolproof - programs can always use a means similar to a timing attack to detect the VM - but you can block the "polite" forms of detection. This is often necessary to get video drivers to work in the guest OS. It might be enough.