Re: Who Knows Hardware?

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

Le 2024-12-17 à 16:27, RonB a écrit :

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.

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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.)

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I only have an HP printer and these are the bastards who try to get you
to sign up for a monthly fee for ink or toner refills with them. It
sounds good until you find out that your printer is disabled because the
payment didn't go through.
<https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Instant-Ink/Do-you-know-that-HP-will-disable-your-printer-when-you-stop/td-p/8587102>

I don't like that kind of crap either. I think I might have mentioned this
but my wife bought an Epson ink jet printer (one of the tank ones) and was
(is) happy with its print quality. But a couple (maybe three, maybe four?
maybe five?) months ago it quit printing. Some bogus error. I looked it up
and found that there was nothing wrong with the printer, they just want to
force you to "repair it" or buy a new printer. I know this because because
someone is getting rich selling "reset" codes for these models for $10 a
pop. As a trial they give you a 30% reset for free (which is what I did to
see if the code would actually work) and the printer has been running fine
on that for however many months ago that I did this. Absolutely zero issues.

What really irritated me about this is my wife was printing obituary handouts
for her brother's funeral and that's when the printer decided to just stop.
Right in the middle of her job. If this doesn't scream "class action
lawsuit" I don't know what does. It's pure fraud.

And, when the pritner does this again, I'll pay $10 for the reset code
because it's a good printer. Epson has turned into a crappy company.

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.

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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).

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I try to avoid it, but I don't mind my documents being synchronized and
encrypted as a last resort.

Every time I open my Chromebook it whines that I'm not syncing, which is
exactly what I want. I wish I knew how turn off the notification.

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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It's not that exotic, but I admit that some of the things I got used to
in Windows are things I want to enable by default in Linux like charging
no higher than 80%. It's rather trivial to do that in Linux though.

I looked into that once, decided it wasn't something to worry about (in my
case I'm not away from power that often — I don't do much traveling).

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