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Subject: Re: Who Knows Hardware?
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:34:26 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-14, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> CrudeSausage wrote:
>
>>they like to use advanced functionality like 
>>hardware encryption. The latter simply doesn't work under Linux.
>
> When Windows has the advantage, you tout such concerns as important.
> But they are not, to most users.  
>
> Many users don't use much software but a Web browser.
>
> OTOH, you disregard the Linux privacy advantage as not important to
> most users.  That's not fair or consistent.
>
> As always in this FUBAR market, Linux serves, very well, those for
> whom the mainstream options are inadequate.  Many more would be better
> off with Linux, but simply don't know it.

Linux has not only been "adequate" but superior for me for 18 years. I think 
what "Crude" means is that Linux is not as good as Windows for playing games 
that are made FOR Windows. (Like that's a huge surprise.)

-- 
“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien