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Subject: Re: Do =?UTF-8?Q?Microsoft=E2=80=99s?= Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?
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On 2024-05-30, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-05-30 7:32 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> On 2024-05-29 7:48 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2024-05-28 9:34 a.m., DFS wrote:
>>>>>> On 5/27/2024 10:24 AM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2024-05-27 9:25 a.m., DFS wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm sure that all Linux companies are in tears at the knowledge that
>>>>>>> you won't buy from them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I engage in psychological warfare.  I log to Linux sites like System76,
>>>>>> load up a cart with 4 maxed-out systems... then leave.  It kills them!
>>>>>
>>>>> If you bought a machine which was designed to run Linux, rather than
>>>>> install Linux on a machine that originally came with Windows, you might
>>>>> actually enjoy it. I know that I was a big fan of Linux on my
>>>>> AMD-powered Dell laptop back in 2007-2009. I only stopped using Linux
>>>>> because that laptop eventually died, and I replaced it with a Sony Vaio
>>>>> which didn't seem to like the operating system at all.
>>>>
>>>> My Lenovo Flex 14 works great with Linux. The first thing I did after
>>>> I bought it was slick Windows from it.
>>>>
>>>> I've installed Linux on a single-core Acer (it ran Solidworks in a Windows
>>>> VM surprisingly well), a couple of Toshiba laptops, a number of Dell laptops,
>>>> a no-name laptop that came with Windows NT (Red Hat wouldn't work, a bug in K6
>>>> support, but that gave me the impetus to master Debian), an Asus "gaming"
>>>> laptop (it's now my desktop/server, always on), various name-brand and no-name
>>>> desktop boxes....
>>>>
>>>> The Linuxen? Red Hat (the original); Debian Sid; Gentoo; Ubuntu; and Arch.
>>>>
>>>> The main issues I encountered early in my Linux career involved needing to
>>>> build Intel wireless drivers.
>>>
>>> For me, there is a greater chance that Linux will run fine on a machine
>>> built for Windows than there is that Windows will run fine on a machine
>>> built for Linux.
>> 
>> The hardware comes first. The OS adapts to it (or the hardware developers
>> write the OS-specific drivers for it.)
>
> Generally, I wouldn't be worried that drivers for the hardware used on 
> Linux-minded laptops would be available. However, I wouldn't be 
> surprised if I faced the same kind of issues using Windows on a Linux 
> machine that I had using Linux on a Windows machine. Problems waking 
> from sleep, graphical errors and things of the sort are very likely to 
> happen.

I don't think that's going to be a problem. "Linux computers" are just 
standard computers that use components that are well-supported by Linux. 
(Like Intel WiFi cards vs Broadcom WiFi cards, for example.) Of course the 
component manufacturers are going to support Windows on their hardware.

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