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| From | RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: Who Knows Hardware? |
| Date | 2024-12-17 21:27 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vjsqcf$1sthq$9@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 2024-12-17, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote: > Le 2024-12-17 à 03:34, RonB a écrit : >> On 2024-12-16, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote: >>> Le 2024-12-16 à 05:56, RonB a écrit : >>>> On 2024-12-15, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote: >>>>> Le 2024-12-14 à 11:34, RonB a écrit : >>>>>> On 2024-12-14, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote: >>>>>>> CrudeSausage wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> they like to use advanced functionality like >>>>>>>> hardware encryption. The latter simply doesn't work under Linux. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> When Windows has the advantage, you tout such concerns as important. >>>>>>> But they are not, to most users. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Many users don't use much software but a Web browser. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> OTOH, you disregard the Linux privacy advantage as not important to >>>>>>> most users. That's not fair or consistent. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> As always in this FUBAR market, Linux serves, very well, those for >>>>>>> whom the mainstream options are inadequate. Many more would be better >>>>>>> off with Linux, but simply don't know it. >>>>>> >>>>>> Linux has not only been "adequate" but superior for me for 18 years. I think >>>>>> what "Crude" means is that Linux is not as good as Windows for playing games >>>>>> that are made FOR Windows. (Like that's a huge surprise.) >>>>> >>>>> No, I'll make it clearer: >>>>> >>>>> 1) Linux is worse for laptop battery life. >>>>> 2) Linux doesn't support hardware encryption on OPAL drives (resulting >>>>> in a terrible performance hit if you decide to encrypt). >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> Response to 1) — not in my experience. I use Intel GPUs, so maybe that makes >>>> a difference. >>> >>> For power consumption, Intel is generally better than AMD on battery. >> >> Okay, I'll take your word for that. I've never (personally) had a laptop >> that used an AMD CPU. I think my wife had one HP laptop that did — it was a >> piece of crap. I think HP makes good business machines, but their consumer >> laptops (and desktops) seem to be crap to me. I guess that can be said for >> Dell also. I've used Dell's business machines for a long time now. > > I wouldn't buy a consumer-grade HP laptop considering how poor HP's > motherboards seem to be. There is no end to negative reviews of their > hardware and I know for a fact that the laptops my wife's company > supplies to its employees are HP and they often bend from the heat. I'll take your word for it on HP. My brother used to like them, but I think he's been moving to Dell lately. (He's a Windows programmer who works from home and he was complaining about something in his older HPs.) >>>> Response to 2) — I don't even know what OPAL encryption is (and I don't >>>> give a fig). I could encrypt Linux Mint if I wanted to, I choose not to do >>>> it. >>> >>> It is the standard method for hardware encryption and allows you to use >>> the storage at its full speed unlike the software method which >>> compromises on performance very considerably. It has the benefit of >>> keeping your data safe in case of theft without bogging down your hardware. >> >> Okay. I still have no interest in encryption. I've tried to recover data >> from an encrypted hard drive (not mine) in the past. It was futile (for me, >> at least) and I didn't like it. > > I admit that this is an issue which is why my most important data is > also synchronized on the cloud. I don't syncronize on the Cloud (except for notes in Simplenote). >>>> Response to 3) — As I've mentioned (a few times now) Linux works fine for me >>>> when updating computers that haven't been updated for over year, sometimes >>>> even multiple years. I've never had a Linux OS update failure. Meanwhile, my >>>> son's Windows 10 computer is running like a snail (with obvious issues) — >>>> and it refuses to update. I've tried about five Windows' "solutions" so far. >>>> No luck. I saw that it had an update "troubleshooter." I ran it. It claimed, >>>> for about FIVE hours, that it was "resolving the problem." It completed the >>>> "fix" with the message "Update Problem Found." Like no shit, Sherlock, >>>> that's why I ran the damn troubleshooter, because I had already "found" the >>>> problem. I know what's going to end up fixing it. Using a Linux USB to back >>>> up the files my son wants to save and rebuilding from scratch. This is >>>> always the way you "fix" Windows crap. >>>> >>>> Out of curiosity, how would you know Linux doesn't update properly if not >>>> updated regularly? You never keep it installed long enough to know this. >>> >>> That is actually part of why I don't keep Linux installed for long. >> >> Okay, so... your judging Linux by hearsay? > > No, I'm stating that even in using Linux for a week or two, I eventually > faced an update which caused the machine to stop booting to desktop as > it should. Okay. Again, not my experience, but I don't have "exotic" hardware. Dell's business hardware is about as "plain Jane" as you can get. -- “Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
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