Re: Do Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Require Linux?

On 2024-05-30, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On 2024-05-30 7:32 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

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On 2024-05-29 7:48 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

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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:

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I'm sure that all Linux companies are in tears at the knowledge that
you won't buy from them.

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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!

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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.

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My Lenovo Flex 14 works great with Linux. The first thing I did after
I bought it was slick Windows from it.
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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....
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The Linuxen? Red Hat (the original); Debian Sid; Gentoo; Ubuntu; and Arch.
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The main issues I encountered early in my Linux career involved needing to
build Intel wireless drivers.

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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.)

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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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