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This Sun UNIX Workstation from 2005 might be the oldest possible PC that can run Windows 11.

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[–] atthecoast@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

It’s fun and seems surprisingly useful. Although his remark on the 1000w power supply (similar to 2003 era PowerPC G5 Macs) does make sense. Whenever I run a modern Linux on a PowerPC Mac it just turns into a boring slow old computer that feels even older than the same hardware running an ancient MacOS X