Re: Why I won't run Windows on my Thelio

On Wed, 29 May 2024 18:49:40 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 5/28/2024 11:49 PM, vallor wrote:

On Tue, 28 May 2024 23:17:32 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 5/28/2024 11:12 PM, vallor wrote:

On Tue, 28 May 2024 22:26:01 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 5/28/2024 10:24 PM, vallor wrote:

On Tue, 28 May 2024 21:17:06 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 5/28/2024 2:50 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-05-28 9:34 a.m., DFS wrote:

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If you bought a machine which was designed to run Linux,

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I didn't know there was such a thing.
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Does that mean Windows won't run on them?

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I wouldn't want to try to run Windows on this system, unless it was
in a virt.

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Why?

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First, I don't want Microsoft to get its greasy fingers on my EFI.
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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.
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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.

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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.

 
 
https://github.com/system76/thelio-io-windows
 
Now remove that Linux shit by slicking it with a Windows disk.

That would be a downgrade.

 
Enjoy good software and games for a change.

The software I use is more Linux-oriented than Windows-oriented.

 Use WSL if you have a
compulsion for a bash shell.

I would use Cygwin, if I wanted to downgrade.

Embrace Notepad++ and MS Office and
AIDA64.  Move out of the ghetto to the suburbs.
 
https://imgur.com/a/ZhwJJLz

LOL.  "[TRIAL VERSION]".  Talk about "ghetto".

 
Note: why did you buy such a powerful system?

Because I didn't want my system to be weak.  I wanted
a workstation, not just a desktop.  (Even so, for a workstation,
it's actually a little on the low-end.)

For example, I can use the ramdisk for images for virts.

I can also unpack sources on my ramdisk for faster compilation, and
build them with "make -j 64".

I run games and stream them with obs-studio, which takes
serious horsepower.  4K video is like that.  Also editing
the video benefits from the extra horsepower.

I also use Foocus for generative AI, text-to-image.

Did you watch the video that rbowman posted?  Linus was surprised
at the Linux performance of his little Thelio.  It beat MS Windows
in many ways.

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-v