I think you’ll have an extremely hard time finding any hardware that supports Windows but can’t run linux

My previous laptop couldn’t boot linux for like 2 years until kernel patches came out. It still to this day doesn’t support bluetooth in linux due to an unfixed/wontfix kernel bug. And the wifi only uploads at 1mbps under linux.

By incompatible I don’t mean “won’t boot at all” (even though I’ve had that multiple times, including with my Surface tablet), but it’s all the little stuff that often doesn’t have a 100% working driver (either yet or at all). Maybe you don’t experience this but there’s still lots of people that do.

Personally, every game I care to run works perfectly fine on my Steam Deck

Almost none of my TeknoParrot games work under linux, no matter what version/patch/fork of wine/lutris/proton/etc. I try. Plus there’s tons of people that still want to play those newer games with kernel-level anti-cheat, even if you don’t.

5 reasons you should not ditch Windows:

• Your hardware is incompatible or you do not want to fiddle with settings or command lines

• Your applications/games only work well on native Windows (and not wine)

• You need serious group policy support or other device/software lockdown methods

• Your company policy requires it

• Makes helping Windows users harder if you cannot walk them through the same things they are doing

Of course if any of these apply you can always dual-boot or use a VM. I’m not saying you shouldn’t use Linux at all.

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Photoshop works fine for me in wine, no VM necessary, and performance is near native.

POS

works fine for me /shrug

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Basically instead of launching completely new processes for each tab, which uses the (now updated/different) binary on disk, it uses a small secondary process that stays running the whole time the browser is open, and new processes are forked from that one, which makes them all use the same in-memory copy of the old process even after the program is updated.

This only works on *nix because you can’t overwrite binaries on Windows that are in use… but Linux keeps the old binary in memory the whole time, so it doesn’t care if you replace it, as it won’t be used until you restart the program.

So it doesn’t actually update anything at all while it’s running.

Will this stop the constant crashing I’ve been having the last several versions?

Did you read the article?

If I don’t know what your code is doing, and I can’t modify it, I don’t want it.

To be fair, 99% of the world population do not share this viewpoint.

I don’t understand how/why this got so popular out of nowhere… the same solution has already existed for years in the form of haproxy-protection and a couple others… but nobody seems to care about those.

not a single mention of notcurses-demo

That and if you go on the gnome forums, their attitude IMO seems openly hostile to… almost everything and everyone.

I said I will take it, not that I think everyone else should, or is capable of recognizing/ignoring conspiracy theories. I struggle much harder with ignoring bad attitudes than I do obvious bullshit, but to each their own.

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tbf I’ll take Dale Gribble level conspiracy theories over Linus’ bad attitude any day.

They actually do. To quote a major FOSS developer, “popularity is not a project goal.”

Reminds me of early punk rockers that get upset when their tiny little nobody band that fits in their back pocket, gets too big to fit in their pocket anymore. Some might call it “selling out.”

About four years ago, Linus Torvalds rebuked him for spreading anti-vaxxer misinformation on the Linux Kernel Mailing List

Got a non-captcha-looped source? I gave up after ten rounds of clicking bicycles.

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