24-08-2024, 06:47 PM
If you go to the settings app, then go to "Update & Security", you should get a message telling you if your current hardware supports W11 or not. Or you can install the PC heath check app from Microsoft, which will tell you.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/wind...f37caa7844
On this 7 year old laptop, I'm not able to install W11 because my CPU (a 7th-gen i5) is not supported. Looks like I only just missed out, as several 8th-gen i5s are listed as compatible...
Earlier you said you built your PC back in 2011, so there's probably even less chance you could install W11 on it. You'd probably have been offered it via Wondows Update before now if it were possible.
I can't comment on how it compares really. My son has it on his laptop and desktop machines, but I don't have much to do with them as he's fairly self-sufficient with computers these days. For the more complicated problems I might help him with, it doesn't take long before I start seeing the same legacy dialogue boxes from the Windows 2000 era, which always amuses me
I use Libre Office for most things, and it's cross-platform. It will open Docx files, though you might get occasional formatting issues, though I rarely see those in practice.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/wind...f37caa7844
On this 7 year old laptop, I'm not able to install W11 because my CPU (a 7th-gen i5) is not supported. Looks like I only just missed out, as several 8th-gen i5s are listed as compatible...
Earlier you said you built your PC back in 2011, so there's probably even less chance you could install W11 on it. You'd probably have been offered it via Wondows Update before now if it were possible.
I can't comment on how it compares really. My son has it on his laptop and desktop machines, but I don't have much to do with them as he's fairly self-sufficient with computers these days. For the more complicated problems I might help him with, it doesn't take long before I start seeing the same legacy dialogue boxes from the Windows 2000 era, which always amuses me
I use Libre Office for most things, and it's cross-platform. It will open Docx files, though you might get occasional formatting issues, though I rarely see those in practice.
