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Re: Who Knows Hardware?

Subject Re: Who Knows Hardware?
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From CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
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Date 2024-12-15 10:37 -0500

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Le 2024-12-15 à 09:00, Stéphane CARPENTIER a écrit :
> Le 15-12-2024, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> a écrit :
>>
>> No, I'll make it clearer:
>>
>> 1) Linux is worse for laptop battery life.
> 
> Why? Everything I saw on the subject point to the other way.

I believed that too but it's a common complaint for Linux users that 
their battery life is worse. TLP does a good job of narrowing the field 
between Windows and Linux though. On this machine, the difference is 
about 2-5mW per hour which doesn't seem like much but adds up.

Notice that this article admits to the problem. If you follow their 
instructions though, you will indeed see a benefit in power consumption: 
<https://www.maketecheasier.com/increase-linux-laptop-battery-life/>

>> 2) Linux doesn't support hardware encryption on OPAL drives (resulting
>> in a terrible performance hit if you decide to encrypt).
> 
> I saw another of your message explaining issues about it, but I never
> saw anything like that anywhere else. Your issue is probably with your
> computer, maybe a particular device which makes it behave wrongly, but
> I'm not convinced about it in a general way.

It appears that Linux finally added support for OPAL v2 encryption in 
August 2023 (late but better than never). With that in mind, feel free 
to explain how to enable it in Linux for the benefit of all this forum's 
readers.

>> 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.
> 
> You are comparing two different things. Windows updates update only
> Windows and nothing else: you have to manually handle everything else.
> When a Linux update handle everything except for things you manually
> installed (either because they're not managed by your distro or because
> you want a more recent version). For example, if you want to use
> FireFox, a Windows update wont take care of it when a Linux update will.

With winget, this is no longer true. You can update the operating system 
itself within Windows Update but update everything else through the 
command line using that tool. It's not as good as what Linux offers 
since it doesn't rely on a small set of repositories, but it's an 
improvement.

-- 
CrudeSausage

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                Re: Who Knows Hardware? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 16:32 -0500
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 18:13 -0500
              Re: Who Knows Hardware? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 17:20 -0500
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            Re: Who Knows Hardware? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 17:13 -0500
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            Re: Who Knows Hardware? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-14 16:34 +0000
              Re: Who Knows Hardware? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 08:23 -0500
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-15 14:00 +0000
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 10:37 -0500
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 10:56 +0000
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-16 11:08 -0500
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 08:34 +0000
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 09:05 -0500
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 21:27 +0000
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 18:18 -0500
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-18 11:47 +0000
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-18 09:31 -0500
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-18 19:19 +0000
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-18 19:36 -0500
                Re: Who Knows Hardware? RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 08:55 +0000
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