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Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop"

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop"
Date 2024-12-17 20:24 +0000
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:01:53 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> I just spent about three hours getting my wife's desktop to boot and
> update to the newest Windows 11 update (which is why I suspect it locked
> up in the first place). Once I got Windows to boot (by disconnecting the
> hard drive and removing it from the "boot choice" in the BIOS — it took
> an hour and a half to download the update and install it — than about
> another ten minutes after rebooting... doing something or other. This is
> on a 10th generation Intel CPU, with 40 GBs of RAM, using an NVMe SSD,
> with an Internet speeds of about 650 Mbps. Heaven knows how long it
> would have taken with slower Internet, an older CPU and 8 GBs of RAM.

I don't use it but there are reports 24H2 tanked TaskManager.

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Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-14 18:29 -0500
  Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-14 23:56 +0000
    Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-15 00:40 +0000
      Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-15 09:16 +0000
    Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-12-15 11:11 -0500
      Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-20 09:46 -0500
    Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2024-12-16 19:48 -0600
      Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 08:04 +0000
  Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-15 00:14 +0000
  Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-15 09:04 -0500
    Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-16 10:24 +0000
      Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-16 10:39 -0500
        Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 08:01 +0000
          Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 08:54 -0500
            Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-17 20:25 +0000
              Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-17 17:51 -0500
                Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-18 10:59 +0000
                Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-18 08:57 -0500
                Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 07:45 +0000
                Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-19 08:56 -0500
                Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 05:46 +0000
                Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-20 08:49 -0500
                Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 18:18 +0000
          Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-17 20:24 +0000
            Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2024-12-18 10:48 +0000
  Re: Founder of Gentoo Daniel Robbins: "I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop" Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-15 14:30 -0500

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