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From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
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Subject: Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 17:31:15 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-02, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
> On 01 Mar 2025 22:52:51 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote
> in <67c38fc3$0$409$426a34cc@news.free.fr>:
>
>> Le 01-03-2025, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> a écrit :
>>> On 2025-03-01 3:59 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 08:44:52 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2025-02-28 10:49 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:16:58 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It's funny how the operating system barely changes from one version
>>>>>>> to the next yet always manages to become much slower.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Linux adds significant new features in each release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Windows ... changes the GUI.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, that's not true. If it were, every six-month release of Ubuntu
>>>>> would be different than the previous. Meanwhile, there is little
>>>>> difference between Ubuntu 14.04 and 24.04 except for the GUI and the
>>>>> kernel.
>>>> 
>>>> Even Ubuntu 24.10 is only up to the 6.11.0 kernel; the last Fedora
>>>> update pulled down 6.13.4.
>>>
>>> Alright, what will the latest kernel change in a person's daily life?
>> 
>> Some improvements are more important than what LP/NV/DG/FR/whatever can
>> accomplish in his dreams. You have more and more thing in your kernel
>> without slowing down your computer. It's impressive by itself.
>
> One of the latest kernel changes improved the speed of the ext4 filesystem
> by 20%.
>
> Support for new hardware is also constantly being added.
>
> Mrs. vallor's new Linux workstation started with Mint 21.3, but its
> kernel didn't have drivers for the wifi device.  Mint 22.1's kernel
> supports it.
>
> (Etc., etc.  I don't care what the concern troll thinks, this is for
> the benefit of those looking on.)
>

I'm testing the latest version of LinuxMint Cinnamon. This is the current
kernel installed as default.
pothead@LinuxMint:~$ uname -a
Linux LinuxMint 6.8.0-54-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Feb  8 00:37:57 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


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