Comment by naikrovek
3 months ago
> there's nothing in W11 that actually relies on a TPM, it's just an artificial restriction from Microsoft to kill old hardware
untrue; bitlocker, an important thing for businesses, is far more secure with a TPM. Lots of things are more secure with a TPM, but people who think that Microsoft requires a TPM to sell more copies of Windows will never, ever, believe that to be the case.
Windows is a relatively small portion of Microsoft's revenue generation these days. Windows used to be the main breadwinner for Microsoft, but that has all changed now that Office is a subscription and Azure exists. That smaller portion of the revenue pie is why Windows has stupid shit like suggestions and tons of preinstalled crap: it matters a lot less who is put off by Windows than it used to.
The TPM is a genuinely good thing. Windows DOES use it. You can write applications which use it as well, if you want to. Short of any hardware bug in the TPM (which did happen once) it is capital-S Secure, as I understand it.
I had to invest a bit of time to get my NixOS install to play well with secure boot and the TPM.
Something Windows was doing for free (time-wise).
Edit: my point was agreeing the TPM is useful which is why I spent time making Linux "more Windowsy" in this case.