Can I salvage this PC for Windows 11?

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rme
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I sometimes use my son's old gaming PC from 2012 for mapping stuff. It has a fast graphics card. It's not compatible with Windows 11 due to no TPM and the CPU is not supported. Is it worth salvaging any components?

boy09
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Put Ubuntu or Linux Mint on that bad boy

You can also just keep using Win10

Also, hard to know what's worth salvaging and what's not without some specs, but 2012 is pretty dated
rme
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Wildmen03
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You can use Rufus to create a USB installer and it will remove the requirements so you can install 11 on unsupported hardware.
pnut02
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Use the Flyoobe to bypass some of the Win11 "requirements"

https://github.com/builtbybel/Flyoobe
boy09
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Keep in mind that just because you can install Windows 11 with a workaround, there are no guarantees that it will run well on hardware that old
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