windows 11

I understand that Wine 11 offers near-native performance. It also offers a dummy function to report Win11 installed for TurboTax, Quickbooks, ON1 and others that refuse to launch on other than Win11. I’m curious if Wine11 is same or faster than bloated Win11

Does anyone by chance know what this photos.exe binary is about

I have been running quite a few windows 11 virtual machines on a couple of servers using BHYVE and 14.2-RELEASE. Upon upgrading win11 to 24H2 the host cpu usage at idle (4 cpu guest) has increase from ~2% to %20 of a CPU (based on top). This has happened on both intel and AMD CPUs. The other...

Hi! I'm currently trying to install FreeBSD 14.1 on a Thinkpad T14 Gen3 (Intel) with the interactive bsdinstall TUI but have some questions regarding the partitioning step. My plan is to run FreeBSD alongside Windows 11 on a single SSD using the BIOS to switch between installed EFI...

I am in the process of moving off of Proxmox and into FreeBSD 14.1 / bhyve for my home vm server. (Using vm-bhyve) I have noticed that Windows 11 guests seem to use considerably more cpu resources at idle than my Linux, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2022 VMs. I have 1 migrated W11 VM, and 1...

Introduction: This is a guide on how to dual boot windows 11 and FreeBSD 14. I recently received a fantastic laptop that happens to be surprisingly compatible with FreeBSD, so I highly recommend it, and no, I am not sponsored by MSI; I have merely fought enough laptops to recognize a keeper when...

I would like to ask if there is any confirmed solution to solve to problem with compatibility between Windows 11 22H2 and the Samba in FreeBSD? I cannot login to domain with my current version of system. But I do not want to try to update to not solve this. Thanks for answers and your...

I originally posted my issue with FreeBSD 12.2 and VBOX+Windows 11, and was told that 12.2 is no longer supported. I moved my .vhds to my linux machine, ran VBox there and booted just fine - and updated to FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE. Migrated the .vhds back to Windows11 and booted. I claimed it was...

Does anybody here have any experiences with dual booting Windows 11? As far as I know Windows 11 requires TPM. And as far as I know FreeBSD has some issues with waking up from S states when TPM is enabled.