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Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform (hackaday.com)
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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

This rings a little hollow to me. Most of the people I know that understand Linux can quickly summarize why they might not use it as their daily driver (eg staying on macOS for graphics/video or staying on Windows for desktop Word/Excel). If you can’t summarize that quickly, it really makes me wonder if you really understand it. I’m not trying to No True Scotsman my way around it; I really don’t understand.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 days ago

The reasons I personally know are "I have to use an app for work, there is no interoperable alternative, I have no leverage to replace that entire ecosystem and it won't run with wine" and "It's a company-issued device where I have no rights to change anything anyway." Combined, they make the reason that my work Laptop runs Win11, but my private PC is Linux through and through. I'd like to be able to use said app on my private PC too, but if it doesn't, no big deal.

[–] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Right? I tried to switch my primary computer (framework laptop) to Linux earlier this year and ended up going back to windows after I had absolute nightmares with my type-c KVM. Coupled with performance issues while gaming (and the absolute hassle of having to force games to use my graphics card). Add in whatever random issues I was getting trying to remote into other windows machines on my domain (for CAD work). My day job is in software engineering/ programming, so I'm not exactly a stranger to digging through documentation and fixing computer issues, but spending time fixing my computer instead of using it got old pretty quick.

Perfectly happy with Linux in my HomeLab and on my steamdeck though!

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago

See‽ Easy explanation. I get it, absolutely reasonable issues, and one of several areas Linux just isn’t great with. “Too many issues to explain here” doesn’t click with me.

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

Personally, I'm sticking with macOS as my primary OS until the point that Asahi solves DP alt mode and I can run two displays from it.

My 2014 Mac mini runs Mint, so I'm more than happy to dive in to Linux as my main.