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

On 2025-02-26, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-26 3:01 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-02-25, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-25 8:39 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-02-24, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-24 10:26 a.m., Joel wrote:

CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-23 5:23 p.m., Adison Vohn Caterson wrote:

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It's a computer.

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A lot of people, myself included, feel that their choice of operating
system will make a social, political or economic difference in the
world. I agree with you now: it's a computer. The operating system you
use should be the one which properly supports the hardware you
purchased. For a lot of hardware, that will be Windows or MacOS.
Sometimes, Linux does a better job on that hardware, but that is rare.

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It's a computer.  But Linux on my system clearly demonstrates that it
has won the game.

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On _your_ computer. On the MSI GT72 I gave away, it couldn't suspend
unless I used openSUSE. On this laptop, it works fine but I can't get
the fingerprint reader to work and the proprietary drivers constantly
break on Fedora... on Manjaro, everything mostly works except hibernate
which requires a forced shutdown. I can only imagine how well it will
work on the incoming Macbook Air, but I admittedly don't know if I even
want to use Linux over the outdated MacOS Monterey which I know will
work right.

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I can't speak for Linux on modern laptops using nVidia GPUs, but on my Intel
GPU computers there's no contest. Linux is faster and more stable than
Windows.
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My newest laptop uses an 8th Generation i7 with 32 GBs of RAM. That's the
one that Windows 11 crapped out on and it has been replaced with Debian
Linux version 12. I don't have the desire to try to fix Windows hobbyware on
a continual basis.

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I don't blame you. Windows indeed breaks itself more than it should. If
everything works right in Debian and there are no compromises to make,
that's great. Not all Linux installations are that successful.

 
I've been using Debian based Linux for quite a while now, so I guess I just
know it pretty well. Though I don't know if I'll keep Debian 12 on the other
partition. It's kind of redundant. Maybe I'll put Fedora there. I've had
good luck with Fedora as well.

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Fedora is an excellent distribution. That's why I was disappointed that
it kept breaking with the nvidia drivers. I followed the instructions on
asus-linux.org to set it up on my laptop, but that didn't keep the thing
from breaking all the time. I had to go to Manjaro just to have
something which consistently worked right.

I've got it on an old laptop (Latitude E7440) that I paid $2.59 for (plus
postage). That computer had some issues, but I was able to get it to work
and it actually has two SSDs with two installs of Fedora (don't ask me why,
I can' remember why). It's my "Fedora laptop." If it was worth anything I
would probably give it away. I can't sell it because there's some "coning"
on the bottom of the screen, not too noticeable except in a very light screen
— poor thing wasn't treated well. It figures, it was owned by FedEx, it's
got their sticker on it. Probably treated it the same way they treat our
packages.

"FedEx, when it absolutely positively has to be there... sometime... maybe."

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