Posted on 04/15/2022 5:45:53 AM PDT by ShadowAce
To avoid spending a thousand bucks I will give my Microsoft PC another chance, or dozens more.
At 2:34pm yesterday its clock stopped until 4:13pm. Running Edge and notepad locked its clock.
Maybe Musk should offer Microsoft $43 million for its PC operating system business.
bfl
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Catturd, [4/14/2022 6:32 PM]
Breaking ...
Elon Musk has just bought 9.2% of CNN+ stock for a pack of smokes.
@Catturd_2
Catturd, [4/14/2022 9:52 PM]
I wonder how many Twitter employees had to drive their Tesla to work this morning?
@Catturd_2
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At 2:34pm yesterday its clock stopped until 4:13pm. Running Edge and notepad locked its clock.
Have you tried Brave browser?
For later reading. Thanks.
I'm up to the W series(2008-2015) with a W530 running 2.7GHz 8x core i7 with 16 GiB of RAM and it just screams with Kubuntu 20.04, latest Long Term Support release. The upgrade path to something a little newer would be the P series(2015 to present), also a business series. P50 series, 50, 51, 52 etc is what I would choose.
X series is a good one too and is high performance but not business. Off lease business models can be found on ebay, with or without a HDD, with HDD wiped or wiped and then freshly installed with whatever version of Windows it came with. The original version of Windows with a legible COA sticker is preferred. No problems activating Windows that way. Then add Linux and do the dual boot setup.
Dell business models are another option and like the Thinkpad, some models did come with Linux pre-installed. With laptops being as powerful as they've become, I have no use for a tower taking up space.
Paid $325 for this W530 and see no reason to upgrade anytime soon. Ebay results for parts lists over 500 items. LCD/LED displays, OEM batteries and keyboards are available as new parts. Everything else is available used. Universal stuff like HDDs and RAM would be available as new of course.
It comes with Linux preinstalled, as they are designed from the ground up to run Linux.
But they are kinda pricey. I tend to keep laptops for ~10 years at a time, though, so it evens out in the end.
An old hardware platform is safer and probably does everything that an average person might want.
Lastly newer systems are adopting the Apple of planned obsolescence. How many of your newer computers are not capable of running Windows 11? The solution — buy a new computer (or install Linux).
Linux is open source and so is more secure and less intrusive.
How does open source make it more secure? I would think it would make it less secure.
Contrary to the article, nVidia graphics cards are well supported by Linux.
I have a GeForce RTX 2060 and it works fine on Linux Mint.
I have a 5 year old Toshiba Linux Mint laptop, i3 processor. It was sluggish to load Linux.
A few weeks ago I replaced the 1 Tb hard drive with a 500 Gb SSD.
I tried to copy from-to and never could get the start-up to recognize the new drive, so I did a fresh install from the Linux Mint 20.3 ISO.
Now, my boot-up is about 12 seconds. Previously, it seemed to take well over a minute. It is surprising how much faster an SSD boot drive is.
The i9 needs some serious power, so an 850W power supply runs it and a liquid CPU cooler with a 360mm radiator draws off the heat.
“To avoid spending a thousand bucks I will give my Microsoft PC another chance.”
How about a new life as a Linux computer? :)
“How does open source make it more secure? I would think it would make it less secure. “
Secure because the code is an open book for everyone to see and review. Nothing can be hidden in it without being found and exposed right away. That is a huge deterrent alone.
That's a common misperception. The basic idea is that with more eyes on the source code, bugs tend to be shallower. Also, open source software doesn't tend to have spyware built and designed into it, which tends to negatively effect security. The history of Linux certainly backs up the idea that it is more secure, though part of that security is in the design. Microsoft has made some terrible design decisions in the past that severely effected the security of the platform. Sometimes that is because they want to make it easier to use, and that ease of use will bite users in the ass. For instance, on Linux, if someone sends you a program in an email, you can't just click it and run it, because the default for saving files is to make them non-executable, whereas on MS-Windows it is the filename, among other things, that makes the file executable, which is a truly horrible design decision, that has cost both consumers and businesses billions, if not trillion in losses.
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