Windows 11

Non Air Cadets Computers and stuff
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For ease of sticking, or pain of switching?

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My Linux install is my daily driver, no need for Windows at all ! There’s lots I can’t do in Windows.

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Finally stopped ignoring the update prompt on my laptop. It looks slightly different, but honestly I’ve not noticed anything major in my day-to-day use (other than the changed Start menu) - certainly nothing to justify Microsoft abandoning their “Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows” pledge and calling it Windows 11…

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Just wanted to share this here

If you are running computers with Windows 10 at the squadron, chances are that you already know that it goes End of Life on 14 October 2025, that means no software updates or security fixes.
While you could transition to Chrom OS Flex, you could also follow the guidance in the article above to install Windows 11, even if the computer doesn’t officially support Windows 11.

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Win 10 support stops next year so that’s a good reason to upgrade

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I think its a scandal that so much serviceable hardware is destined for e-waste because it will not support Win11.

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Try working in the CS. The amount of PCs, printers, etc, that are trashed during ‘computer upgrades’ and not offered out to charities is appalling.

Tried to find out if we could ‘acquire’ some in the past and was told that its not cost effective to remove software already loaded, etc, easier to just scrap. Even monitors get scrapped!!

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And yet people always mock the concept of ‘efficiency savings’ in CS departments and claim it cuts public services.

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My experience of the public sector is that a lot of managers will cut front line services before anything that causes extra work, makes their lives less comfortable, or reduces their prestige.

I’m sure there are good ones out there but that has been my experience across multiple depts, agencies and the NHS.

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We’ve been told that we’re upgrading to 11 over the next couple of months and that approx 40% of colleagues will need replacement laptops. We’re not a massive department but that’s still plenty of people

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Exactly…………

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I’m going to try this over the weekend as one of our sim PCs can’t officially run Win11 and we can’t afford to replace it right now.

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How you considered a grant application to the Air Cadet Charity?

Some good detail on SNIs SharePoint from the Wing/Region Chair conference from a few weeks ago.

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Have you thought about using Chrome Flex? The HQ is giving away some licences, 3 per Sqn I think and this allows you to revitalise old hardware. More details here:

Chrome Flex

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For a flight sim it has to be Windows

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X-Plane has Linux versions and an installation guide for Fedora, openSuse and Ubuntu.

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Unfortunately the Chrome OS Flex wipes the drive and doesn’t allow anything to be installed outside the RAFAC platform.

The FAQS state Microsoft FS can’t be installed. It doesn’t mention X-Plane but I don’t think it will work on Chrome.

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No you will have to install Linux as the new operating system if you want to continue to use older hardware. If you just want to run MS Flt Sim, then an XBox is a cheap, sustainable alternative.

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So I have checked, X-plane will not run on Chrome OS (there are some posts online saying it does but that is the mobile version of X-plane!)

I’m sticking with the idea of the unofficial Windows 11 upgrade as suggested above.

Interestingly X-Plane 12 does run on Linux. So that might be an interesting project for the cadets.

I’m not actually sure what the purpose of the Chrome OS project is?

The couple of PCs our Cadets use run the flight sims so can’t use the Chrome OS option. We don’t have other PCs or space for them.

Could we transfer the licences to another squadron as I can’t see us ever using them?

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The purpose of Chrome OS Flex for the air cadets is to take low cost old hardware and install Chrome OS Flex for low barrier to entry access to Bader Learn for cadets and sqns.