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

On 2024-05-31, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On 2024-05-31 12:35 a.m., RonB wrote:

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

On 2024-05-30 4:07 p.m., rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 30 May 2024 08:55:21 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
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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.

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The oddity I see with my Acer laptop with an open WSL session is Hyper-V
crashes if it sleeps. It will hibernate with no problem and the couple of
seconds difference in startup isn't a problem.

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I think that there are a number of issues with the way Windows 11
sleeps. I'm not sure what they changed from 10, especially since they
both use Modern Standby by default, but it seems to be fairly chaotic
for hardware.

 
I think Microsoft has lost interest in trouble shooting hardware drivers. I
think their money (and time) is being spent on developing AI crap. It
definitely seems to be their priority.
 
Even SoftMaker is touting AI for their newest office suite. They advertise
it as a "feature," to me it simply means I'll never upgrade to a newer
version.

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Funny that you should mention office suites. I was curious about what
Catholicism believes about current technology and how it views
proprietary and open-source software. Officially, the stance is that
Catholicism has no issue with proprietary software but that it must
resist closed formats entirely since these would be at odds with
allowing people to freely obtain knowledge in whatever form. As such,
only LibreOffice, or an office suite using OpenDocument by default,
respects the faith. Perhaps you would want to take this into
consideration if, like me, your faith is becoming increasingly important.

SoftMaker is proprietary software, but it supports open documents (in
addition to their own format and M$'s format), so I don't see where there is
an issue with using it.

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