I have to imagine the adventurous that want to use latest JDK and can’t download alternative 32 bit JDK will install Linux. I find the whole what will the poor people of other countries do in this thread in poor taste? Those folks are pretty damn ingenious and will find a solution if it’s even a problem. The real pissed off people I think are actually the privileged who are concerned with e waste and have kept their 20 year laptop because old ThinkPads are great or Stallman concerns. Even large gov orgs will not care because ha they are probably running JDK 6 on those machines. More on reddit.com

The recommendation to avoid Red Hat OpenJDK because "there are more established options available" seems odd to me. Red Hat is probably the second most important company behind OpenJDK, and are the official stewards of OpenJDK 8 and 11. More on reddit.com

I haven't done it in awhile, but I believe you just extract the jdk into a folder. Then change your java_home and path variable to point in the direction of your folder that contains the install. Verify its working by entering javac -version in the console window. Edit: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Aleph/Knowledge_Articles/How_to_Download_and_Install_OpenJDK_11_on_Windows_10_PC_for_Aleph More on reddit.com

Here's is an example. The exact version of Java doesn't matter, what matters is that all the files paths etc match up. This site can help you grab specific versions of Java https://www.openlogic.com/openjdk-downloads Download Java 11 ZIP file https://jdk.java.net/11/ Unpack Zip file contents in openjdk-11.0.2_windows-x64_bin.zip\jdk-11.0.2\ to C:\Program Files\Java\Java11\ (Note: the change in file path from default of .zip file) Uninstall Java version 8 Adjust system variables for Java 11 (Note: these paths must conform to the path used in step 2. If you used something different, you must adjust the path statements in this step accordingly.) Create Java_Home system variable using GPO pointed to C:\Program Files\Java\Java11 Add C:\Program Files\Java\Java11\bin\ to PATH statement for all users Remove any Java 8 statements from system PATH, typically C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath and C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath Configure Java 11 HKLM registry entries Confirm HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes.jar is set to: jarfile (Note: this path must conform to the path from step 2. If you used something different, you must adjust the path statement in this step accordingly.) Confirm HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Jarfile\Shell\Open\Command\ is set to: "C:\Program Files\Java\Java11\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "%1" %* Remove Java 8 HKey_Current_User registry entries – if you don’t remove these entries, double-clicking .jar files will not work If present, delete HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes.jar registry entry If present, delete HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\jar_auto_file registry entry Confirm Java installation At a command prompt, type: java -version (this command should return the following results) openjdk version "11.0.2-ojdkbuild" 2019-01-15 LTS OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.2-ojdkbuild+7-LTS) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.2-ojdkbuild+7-LTS, mixed mode) More on reddit.com