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Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux?

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On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:03:11 -0500, VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote in
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> Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 3/20/2025 2:53 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> posted to:
>>>   alt.comp.os.windows-11 alt.comp.os.windows-10 comp.os.linux.advocacy
>>>    <-- Garbage/flaming newsgroup
>>> 
>>>> “Windows 11 will soon let you know why your PC hardware sucks”
>>>>
>>>> <https:// www. theverge.
>>>> com/news/632327/microsoft-windows-11-system-device-specs-
recommendations>
>>>>
>>>> Of course, it’s not their hardware that “sucks”, it’s the bloated
>>>> Windows OS that the poor vict^H^H^H^Husers are trying to run on it.
>>> 
>>> <Aside>
>>> Oops, looks like I missed comp.os.linux.advocacy when a poster
>>> includes garbage newsgroups.  Filter now updated.
>>> 
>>> Garbage newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy omitted in my reply.
>>> </Aside>
>>> 
>>> There is no full citation of the claimed FAQ found in a dev build,
>>> just a screen snapshot showing a couple points at its start.  Dev
>>> builds are of little interest to the release channel community. 
>>> Changes in dev may not make it to the release.  Without any mention of
>>> what the FAQ is professed to claim, the article is just more FUD.  It
>>> adds nothing new.
>>> 
>>> "Is my GPU sufficient for high end gaming ...?"
>>> 
>>> Oh, gee, like that never ever had any impact on video games, uh huh. 
>>> I suppose not as much an issue under Linux since that that platform is
>>> not much used as a gaming platform due to lack of choices on Linux.
>>> 
>>> https://www.statista.com/statistics/265033/proportion-of-operating-
systems-used-on-the-online-gaming-platform-steam/
>>>   "As of September 2023, the most frequently used OS by users of the
>>>   gaming platform Steam was Windows at almost 97 percent. Linux
>>>   followed in second place, with 1.6 percent, ahead of OSX with 1.43
>>>   percent share."
>>>   Aug 19, 2024
>>>   
>>> Of course, not everyone playing video games is doing so through Steam,
>>> but it is still an indicative statistic on how little Linux is used
>>> for gaming.
>>> 
>>> "How dows having 4.8 GB of RAM input my PC's performance?"
>>> "However, running more demanding applications ..."
>>> 
>>> Oh yes, there have never ever been any graphical applications that
>>> consume lots of RAM, uh huh.  Probably not an issue to Linux users
>>> engrained with the command line and console windows for apps.
>>> 
>>> The screenshot shows only a couple of points in the FAQ (which is
>>> unknown, as yet, if it will appear in the release).  From those notes,
>>> nothing new was stated that was unknown for decades.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Considering the times we live in, such an approach to marketing has
>> zero chance of succeeding.
>> 
>> Just about everything, is functionally broken right now. For example,
>> even if you had the money, you can't drive to BestBuy and buy a GPU.
> 
> In the history of BestBuy, I've NEVER been able to buy there just a GPU.
> I had to buy a video card with its GPU.

The colloquial term Paul used was correct -- and your splitting of
hairs has nothing to do with his discussion.

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Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-19 20:56 +0000
  Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-19 17:35 -0400
    Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-20 04:18 -0400
  Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Bill <nonegiven@att.net> - 2025-03-20 13:10 -0400
    Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-20 15:08 -0400
      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Bill <nonegiven@att.net> - 2025-03-20 15:52 -0400
      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-20 22:41 +0100
    Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-20 22:39 +0100
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      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2025-03-21 17:35 +0000
  Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-20 13:53 -0500
    Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-20 15:56 -0400
      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-20 17:03 -0500
        Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-21 00:26 +0000
          Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-20 20:42 -0500
            Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Mr Xi Ji Ping <ping@china.cn> - 2025-03-21 02:00 +0000
            Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-21 02:34 +0000
              Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-21 17:20 -0500
                Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-22 18:37 +0000
                Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-22 16:37 -0500
                Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-22 18:37 -0400
                Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-23 02:19 +0000
                Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-23 01:31 -0400
    Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-03-21 00:20 +0000
      Re: Will It Recommend You Install Linux? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2025-03-20 21:32 -0500
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