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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why I won't run Windows on my Thelio
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 03:49:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 28 May 2024 23:17:32 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
<66569e4b$8$1258331$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:

> On 5/28/2024 11:12 PM, vallor wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 22:26:01 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
>> <v363no$viqs$1@dont-email.me>:
>> 
>>> On 5/28/2024 10:24 PM, vallor wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 21:17:06 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
>>>> <66568211$2$8094$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> On 5/28/2024 2:50 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-05-28 9:34 a.m., DFS wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you bought a machine which was designed to run Linux,
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't know there was such a thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does that mean Windows won't run on them?
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't want to try to run Windows on this system, unless it was
>>>> in a virt.
>>>
>>>
>>> Why?
>> 
>> First, I don't want Microsoft to get its greasy fingers on my EFI.
>> 
>> Second, it probably doesn't have drivers for the custom daughterboard
>> that runs the cooling, and I'm not willing to spend the time to chase
>> down Windows drivers.
>> 
>> Third...there's no need.  The system is perfectly fine with what it
>> has,
>> and needs nothing that Windows has to offer.  If that changed, maybe
>> I'd rethink it.
> 
> 
> What are the exact specs of the hardware?
This is the 1.0 version, I have the 1.1 version:

https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/thelio-mega-r1.0/README.html

With a AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X.  256G of ECC memory.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

If the daughterboard isn't supported on Windows, all the cooling
fans will run full-speed, which would be annoying.

-- 
-v