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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Who Knows Hardware?
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:56:42 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-15, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> Le 2024-12-14 à 11:34, RonB a écrit :
>> 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.)
>
> No, I'll make it clearer:
>
> 1) Linux is worse for laptop battery life.
> 2) Linux doesn't support hardware encryption on OPAL drives (resulting 
> in a terrible performance hit if you decide to encrypt).
> 3) Linux's update system is superior as long as there is no long delay 
> between updates, but can break things otherwise because they always 
> overwrite whereas Windows's big updates install the operating system 
> anew preserving settings and applications.

Response to 1) — not in my experience. I use Intel GPUs, so maybe that makes 
a difference.

Response to 2) — I don't even know what OPAL encryption is (and I don't 
give a fig). I could encrypt Linux Mint if I wanted to, I choose not to do 
it.

Response to 3) — As I've mentioned (a few times now) Linux works fine for me 
when updating computers that haven't been updated for over year, sometimes 
even multiple years. I've never had a Linux OS update failure. Meanwhile, my 
son's Windows 10 computer is running like a snail (with obvious issues) — 
and it refuses to update. I've tried about five Windows' "solutions" so far. 
No luck. I saw that it had an update "troubleshooter." I ran it. It claimed, 
for about FIVE hours, that it was "resolving the problem." It completed the 
"fix" with the message "Update Problem Found." Like no shit, Sherlock, 
that's why I ran the damn troubleshooter, because I had already "found" the 
problem. I know what's going to end up fixing it. Using a Linux USB to back 
up the files my son wants to save and rebuilding from scratch. This is 
always the way you "fix" Windows crap.

Out of curiosity, how would you know Linux doesn't update properly if not 
updated regularly? You never keep it installed long enough to know this.

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what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien