Apparently my computer isn't good enough for Windows 11.

[kane_magus]

They "helpfully" let me know this with a large banner thing in the middle of the screen when I ran normal Windows Update just now. Apparently, the CPU isn't good enough or some shit.

*shrug*

That's fine. I wasn't planning to update to Windows 11 at any point in the near to distant future anyway. I only just updated to Windows 10 back in January (EDIT Jan of 2020, that is, of course; has it really already been almost two years? /EDIT) or whenever, and even that was only because they completely stopped supported Windows 7 at that point.

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[kane_magus]

For me, I think the trickiest part of putting the current computer together was probably screwing the motherboard and power supply to the case itself. Everything after that was simply following the diagrams in the manual for the motherboard to make sure that the right cable went into the right slot on the board and such.

No, I take that back, the trickiest part was probably connecting the CPU, and then smearing on the thermal paste and attaching the heat sink fan to that and making sure the fan was housed correctly on the board and up against the CPU. But then, I've done that so many times (like, maybe half a dozen) by this point that it's kind of old hat by now. That said, I still treat the whole thing like it's made of glass every time I do it, all the same.

And yeah, having a spacious case is nice. My previous computer, before the one above, is one I bought pre-built when I first moved to WA, and it was the one that had that huge, inexplicable fucking bar on it, on which I snapped off a piece of the HDD/SATA connector and ended up literally destroying the CPU and CPU housing on the motherboard itself, which is what finally prompted me to have to buy the current computer in the first place. So... yeah... trying to build/fix/upgrade things yourself is definitely not without risk. That's the only time I ever had major problems of that nature, though... but then, even one time is one time too many... >_>;