Re: Who Knows Hardware?

On 2024-12-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-17 à 03:34, RonB a écrit :

On 2024-12-16, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

Le 2024-12-16 à 05:56, RonB a écrit :

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:
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they like to use advanced functionality like
hardware encryption. The latter simply doesn't work under Linux.

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When Windows has the advantage, you tout such concerns as important.
But they are not, to most users.
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Many users don't use much software but a Web browser.
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OTOH, you disregard the Linux privacy advantage as not important to
most users.  That's not fair or consistent.
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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.

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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.)

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No, I'll make it clearer:
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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.

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

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For power consumption, Intel is generally better than AMD on battery.

 
Okay, I'll take your word for that. I've never (personally) had a laptop
that used an AMD CPU. I think my wife had one HP laptop that did — it was a
piece of crap. I think HP makes good business machines, but their consumer
laptops (and desktops) seem to be crap to me. I guess that can be said for
Dell also. I've used Dell's business machines for a long time now.

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I wouldn't buy a consumer-grade HP laptop considering how poor HP's
motherboards seem to be. There is no end to negative reviews of their
hardware and I know for a fact that the laptops my wife's company
supplies to its employees are HP and they often bend from the heat.

I'll take your word for it on HP. My brother used to like them, but I think
he's been moving to Dell lately. (He's a Windows programmer who works from
home and he was complaining about something in his older HPs.)

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.

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It is the standard method for hardware encryption and allows you to use
the storage at its full speed unlike the software method which
compromises on performance very considerably. It has the benefit of
keeping your data safe in case of theft without bogging down your hardware.

 
Okay. I still have no interest in encryption. I've tried to recover data
from an encrypted hard drive (not mine) in the past. It was futile (for me,
at least) and I didn't like it.

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I admit that this is an issue which is why my most important data is
also synchronized on the cloud.

I don't syncronize on the Cloud (except for notes in Simplenote).

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.
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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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That is actually part of why I don't keep Linux installed for long.

 
Okay, so... your judging Linux by hearsay?

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No, I'm stating that even in using Linux for a week or two, I eventually
faced an update which caused the machine to stop booting to desktop as
it should.

Okay. Again, not my experience, but I don't have "exotic" hardware. Dell's
business hardware is about as "plain Jane" as you can get.

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