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Like I said, you need to go learn public key cryptography. Encryption is one use of keys, yes, but hardly the only one. There’s a LOT more to it than that, primarily around security and trusted binaries
Well see.
ARM is an very capable architecture- at least with performance per watt. As we move to more and more cloud-native apps that require less ties to the underlying hardware, the difference between ARM and x86 will shrink. Again, especially in the enterprise.
And yet the masses are dumping desktop devices in favor of mobile devices. Microsoft know this, hence the reason for those fat fingered tiles in your start menu. With every update the mobile UI is being pushed ever so gently by MS in the hope people won't notice - They did learn something from Windows 8. Likewise with MacOS, with every update the OS is becoming more locked down in a similar fashion to iOS.I've heard this argument for years. Reality is that if you use the classic Win 9X start menu (you know, the one that everyone on H was whined about 7 removing), it took more space once you had enough folders.
But I get your point. I can barely see anything when the start menu is openView attachment 370942
And in the enterprise, with containerization and other technologies being the primary delivery platform of all new apps and services, the OS barely matters, and the underlying architecture sure as hell doesn't if the HAL API is there.
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Gotten infinitely better. Virtualization performance is 98-99.5% of bare metal architected properly, containers are 95% of bare metal just out of the box (give or take). It’s close enough and good enough, and with automated lord balancing, you’re overcommitted to the point that you get more out of the kit than you would otherwise - which ends up being cheaper and about as fast
You're dodging the question. What exactly is being encrypted here? Microsoft isn't looking out for your benefit, so what are we encrypting here?
You see cloud gaming gaining any traction? There's a reason for that.
Oh yea? Lets see what Microsoft does right this time.
Apple fell to #2 in computer sales since the release of the M1.
This is how I plan to migrate my main PC running Windows to Linux, but also making a VM running Windows. Lately I hear you pass on existing hardware without needing second hardware, meaning I can pretty much get the same performance of Windows in a VM as I would on bare metal. I don't have enough faith in Wine to use Linux exclusively.
Yes it's possible to do pass-through for the VM (Guest) to fully utilize the GPU (and other peripherals as well).
Nothing. We’re not encrypting anything. We’re verifying digital signatures against trusted certificate or private keys. Similar to how HTTPS works. Chrome and Firefox both keep their own root stores, but those are vulnerable. A TPM, by design, is less vulnerable - it’s much harder to modify as you have very limited interaction with it. The trick has been finding a safe and secure way to store the private keys that can’t be futzed with easily. The fact that we can also store a bit locker or ZFS encryption key there is a bonus, but not the prime use case here.
Also doesn’t help that maintaining a 30FPS H.264 stream (VMware blast or HCX3d, haven’t tinkered with the hyper-v version) is difficult and (keeping quality high) latency sensitive. Also, you’re really limited to that and 1080P without the economics getting squirrely. I’ve demoed this running in my own data centers. It’s fun, but not entirely economically sane yet. You get 3-4 guests per RTX6000 card- it just doesn’t scale yet.
Docker.IO - if you’ve written the layer very specifically, it’s not bad. As long as you don’t need ring 0 level access. That’s why so many of the abstracted languages (python, c#, etc) are popular now. They care far less about the hardware. Running low level code in a container sucks. Running modern code in it…. Just really doesn’t. It ain’t perfect, but it ain’t bad. And they also make it really easy to build against multiple architectures as needed too.
I'm thinking of the idea of running both the host OS and VM OS on the same GPU, just like you share CPU resources you could share GPU resources. I'm talking about VFIO which Nvidia supports on their server GPU's. AMD doesn't have anything like that so... yea. Or I could hope that Wine gets better.
Yes, a person's intellect is solely judged by their ability to use Windows. Guess Albert Einstein was an idiot
AMD 3600, 16GB Ram, 2070 Super, x570 Mobo, 1TB 970 EVO+ NVME
That would be fine except for the fact that the media was constantly putting out FUD stories about CPU hardware vulnerabilities for the past decade. Vulnerabilities that would not have been a concern to the vast majority of users.
Don't know what your parents did at NASA but if I can make Linux look like Windows 10 and act like Windows 10 then your parents shouldn't even be aware they're using Linux. Unless they played games, use Microsoft Office, and need Adobe products, even though you can use Office 365 online but we'll ignore that because they're old and probably use Office 2007 which actually still runs on Wine just fine.
I couldn't tell you why SWTOR runs slow on Proton. As someone pointed out on ProtonDB you need to use Proton-GE to avoid the laggy feel of the game. I use Proton-GE for a lot of things since it tends to work better than Wine, though not meant to act in Wine's place.
In most cases... no they wouldn't know. Unless they're nerds like us then as far as they know everything is business as usually. Keep in mind I mention Linux Mint for a reason in that it tries to copy Windows down to the annoying stuff I hate about Windows 10. Have your parents go download Chrome and Google's website will automatically recommend a .deb file, which installs pretty much like any other Windows installer. Do it for Zoom, do it for Discord, do it for a number of freely available programs and the installer will install. Even Steam has a .deb, though I doubt they play games.
Again, that's suggesting they know more about computers than you're letting on. It can be made to look similar and even change the wallpaper for the lock screen randomly like Windows 10 does. Also how much different is it to enter a password? Don't have your dumb message of the day from Microsoft? That crap is annoying.
I think you might be forgetting about the final battle between heatlesssun and myself during December 2012 on the nightmare that would become Windows 8.
It's only natural that when Microsoft fucks up Windows that people will turn to the alternative. Since MacOS sucks, the obvious choice is Linux. Microsoft was due for a fuck up. They do it every other release of Windows.
Yes, they would know.
Really have to laugh at this, since it's detached from reality.
https://twitter.com/FrankLesniak/status/1409737203975135233?s=20
https://twitter.com/Borecxx/status/1026099855914135554?s=20
So here is our first evidence of a potential performance point. If MBEC is not available then it uses Software Emulation in the form of RUM.
The full document is here:
Historically you're correct because Mac was the only other choice. Linux during the late 2000's was horrible. I remember having a hard time getting wifi and sound working because in most installations you didn't have either working by default.
To be honest, more people end up sticking with the older version of the OS than switching over to Apple. Windows XP was such a problem that Microsoft included a copy of it with Windows 7. Windows 7 was such a problem that Microsoft had to force people to upgrade to Windows 10. Apple certainly sees a surge of people switching to Apple but I feel this time things will be different.
Most likely we'll see more people sticking with Windows 10 with Microsoft eventually retracting the requirement for SecureBoot and TPM. Linux is different today thanks to Valve's massive efforts to evolve the OS. Mac made sense when Apple went x86 and even though MacOS isn't compatible with Windows applications, it didn't really matter with features like Parallels and Boot Camp. With the introduction of the M1 that's all gone now, but Linux has done a lot to increase compatibility with Windows applications through Wine. With hardware pass through one can even run a VM of Windows with near 100% the same performance. You can also customize the UI to act and feel like Windows where as MacOS doesn't allow that.
So many that Linux has what, 1% market share? Or have they managed to break the 2% barrier...nm I looked it up 2.6%. Many they're on a tear. If this keeps up, by 2040 they might have 5% market share. I've been in IT for decades and I can count the number of people who abandoned Windows for linux on one hand. And if I limit it to non IT types, then I need no limbs at all, because NONE have switched.
That's probably the case for Windows. Sticking with your existing OS costs approximately zero unless you're replacing the machine at the same time.
Well, if Microsoft removes those SecureBoot and TPM requirements. I don't think this is quite "Xbox One DRM circa E3 2013" bad, even if it does invite that analogy.
When has Windows asked for a PIN? It just asks me for a password.
If I install a custom launcher you won't notice.
I have done it successfully to many friends and family because I don't like dealing with technical support. The only exception is when someone uses it to play games, like Roblox for example is a problem for me since I can't get Roblox to work on Linux for the life of me. Windows breaks all the time and family members tend to download stuff that breaks the OS all the time. Most malware like to break Windows update to prevent an update from removing it. So I install Linux and disguise it as Windows to prevent these problems. They don't know because as far as they know it's Windows.
For a guy living in reality you seem awfully upset over discussing about OS's. I've done it multiple times with great success. Here's a snapshot of my sisters laptop that I've fixed for her. Other than the obvious background that I've chosen, the differences between Windows 10 and this skinned Linux Mint are hard to distinguish. Now that I think about it the look is more like Windows 7. Oh well.
This was widely known at the time and documented.
I don't know, man. There were a lot of reports back in 2016, maybe you missed them, but it did happen.
