Brand new PC build. 5950X, 128Gb RAM, 6900XT, 8Tb of gen 4 NVME storage. Decided to install Win11 just for shits and giggles. Imagine my surprise when...

The Windows 11!?

You can't handle the Windows 11!

Nice specs BTW.

how much space did you gave c:

@stop there is no C:. The drives are totally new and it never even got as far as choosing a drive or partitioning.

Does win 11 hate AMD or something silly?

You need to enable secure boot and TPM 2.0. Instead of the latter, AMD's fTPM works, too.

@Fast-Nop fTPM is enabled. I just double checked and can see the security module showing up when I boot into the motherboard settings

@nathanchere What about secure boot? Oh, and do you run the mobo in BIOS/CSM or in UEFI mode?

@Fast-Nop I've disabled secure boot but that shouldn't be a barrier, right? Hm... I'll try anyway but if it's required then it's another dealbreaker reason (aside from the taskbar heresy) that I wouldn't keep Windows 11 installed for long.

Upgrade into Linux

@electrineer it will be running Arch eventually, I mostly just want to put Windows on there for a bit out of curiosity and see what the video card can do with games before I wipe the drive and it becomes a dedicated work machine.

@nathanchere Secure boot doesn't need to be actually active, but the PC must be capable of it - which it isn't if you have disabled it.

And you need to run the mobo in UEFI mode. BIOS/CSM mode will not work. Note also that when you install an OS while the mobo is running in BIOS/CSM mode, you cannot easily switch it to UEFI later.

The reason is that BIOS requires MBR partitioning of your SSD while UEFI needs GPT partitioning, and these are not compatible with each other.

Downgrade to Vista 🤡

@Fast-Nop that is not true.
Old systems can boot from GPT, because there is an protective mbr before the GPT data. The only requirement is that the bootloader can only see the first 4 partitions.

@stop I remember Windows issues if you partition the wrong way because Windows mixes partitioning and boot mode although they are technically not related - but this rant is about Windows, so...

@nathanchere Secure Boot is a requirement for Windows 11.

@kwilliams except its not. I had the first insider preview and now current public preview installed on a laptop with secure boot never having been enabled.

@nathanchere they aleeady disabled the tweak that lets you have the startmenu on the left side. Why do you think they won't make the secureboot requirement hard in one of the next updates?

@stop You're speculating about what they may or may not later do. I was just stating what they are not doing right now when it was incorrectly suggested by multiple people as a reason for an install failing.

Let's move to freebsd