Re: Windows Is A Great OS ... If Your Time Is Worth Nothing

On Sat, 2/22/2025 12:23 PM, Adison Vohn Caterson wrote:

On 2025-02-22, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

Joel wrote:

some dumb fsck wrote:

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(snip lies)

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Way to miss Lawrence's point, goofball,

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Any hyperbole or unfairness from Linux advocates pales in comparison
to the avalanche of idiocy and lies from the haters.  Documented ad
nauseum, in here.

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The only reason I promoted Win7 here, in the past, was because at the
time it really did represent something new and improved in computing.
Today, Linux is hands-down the winner.

 
Linux is the winner?
At what?
 
I run Linux on this Thinkpad Yoga 14 because Windows 11 won't run on it,
and Windows 10 is dead soon. So in that case Linux is better.
This laptop can be folded into a tablet, and I can tell you that under
Win 10, worked a charm. Under Linux, screen orientation doesn't work,
virtual keyboard doesn't work. I only get a virtual keyboard at the
logon screen.
 
On a 15" Alienware laptop, it's had Windows 11 on it for 3+ years.
Runs great, has never blue screened, locked up, refused to do my
bidding. Some Windows updates have broken the Dell Support App and the
Alienware Command Center, but a fix usually comes from MS or Dell, or a
Revo uninstall/reinstall fixes it. I wouldn't even bother putting Linux
on the Alienware, as I doubt selecting which video card I want is an
option under Linux, and I doubt fan control would be as easy under Linux
as it is with Windows 11.
 
Windows 11 is a computing tool.
Linux is a computing tool.
 
The choices being available is the winner.
 

Thinkpad Yoga 14   $1100     Reviewed February 11, 2015

1TB hard drive with an extra 16GB of solid-state cache... <=== boo and/or hiss (until the cache fails)

Core i5-4210U   2C 4T 15W 2.7GHz  4th gen Haswell
HD Graphics 4400    ~WDDM 2.0 or so
8GB of RAM
No mention of TPM, Secure Boot, UEFI

Win11 can be installed via Rufus-prepared USB stick. In
the same way my 4930K is currently running Windows 11.
Got there, using a Rufus.ie web site USB stick program.
Which can make a USB stick for a Linux ISO, or for a Windows ISO.
Uses SysLinux boot materials to make the stick boot.

If it really has a "hard drive" in it today, it would be
as slow as molasses at absolute zero, at boot time. Just deleting
the contents of the LCU folder (Last Cumulative Update), took
me ten minutes yesterday (my 1TB hard drive setup for commiserating
with HDD users). For one folder delete. You would want an SSD in
place of the hard drive, to improve the situation a bit.

You can get a 2.5" SSD, a Lexar, for around CDN $40 a piece.
That's what I use for scratch installs here. 256GB.

I noticed the slow NTFS HDD delete issue, on the Insider at first.
That the delete time of NTFS, it was taking a lot longer to delete.
Turning off Windows Defender didn't help. Even an SSD only helps a bit,
but every little bit counts at a time like that.

   Paul