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[–] loudwhisper@infosec.pub 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not in all cases. My desktop PC came with windows professional (10), back in 2021. Upgrading to windows 11 is not included for free (not even to windows 11 "basic"), I need to pay a new license.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You still can upgrade for free and use a registry setting to take off the nag screen.

But I really was commenting on people who think they can't. You can too by buying windows11.

[–] loudwhisper@infosec.pub 3 points 4 days ago

Well, windows didn't allow me to do that, so I might have to do a manual process maybe.

Anyway, I am not interested in upgrading, I am just saying that I can't upgrade (click button, couple of steps), without buying a new copy. We can argue about the semantics of what "upgrading" means, but effectively there are going to be plenty of people in my situations, which is why I brought it up.