Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform
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Exactly, I have a bunch of weird issues when running Linux on my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an RTX3060. So unfortunately I w9nt be switching until the situation improves.
It's not even about gaming either, virtually all animations are like 2fps, no matter the drivers or power management. I wasted days on this with some guys from the Lenovo Legion Linux discord server, and some with exactly the same laptop don't have the same issue, but windows runs fine.
It's a real shame that, maybe on the next laptop!
Is your model covered by a NixOS module?
nixos-hardware/lenovo/legion at master · NixOS/nixos-hardware
A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks. - nixos-hardware/lenovo/legion at master · NixOS/nixos-hardware
GitHub (github.com)
Could give one of these a twirl and see if it fixes the issues you've been seeing.
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Strange cause that must be bricked according to the person I replied to lol
Apple are shithouses under Cook, but they're not that bad.
Yet.
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Seriously. If you're used to fiddling with Windows and especially if you have installed Windows recently, go try something like Linux Mint. Just the install process will blow your mind. And then wait until you get a system update and it doesn't affect what you're doing!
And you can say no if you want to!
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I'm pretty hesitant to find the time to install and learn Linux but I'm VERY hesitant to upgrade to Win11. I'm having trouble understanding what the selling point for it is over Win10. I feel like it used to be clear and exciting to upgrade but they've managed to make this feel sort of dreadful.
Well yeah, w11 has no selling point, that's why they're forcing you to switch by removing support by autumn 2025
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But what if we already use Linux? Can we still have some cookies? Or is this new users only?
You can have them, just click accept all on the cookie pop up.
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what a bizare take to suggest hoping for ReactOS to mature before using Linux as daily driver. A lot of the current reactOS app compatibility depends on WINE implementation anyway.
ReactOS is a very fun project, but anyone expecting it to be a real useable OS is absolutely mad. It's been going for almost 30 years, and they're almost at the point of binary compatibility with Windows Server 2003...
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Is your model covered by a NixOS module?
nixos-hardware/lenovo/legion at master · NixOS/nixos-hardware
A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks. - nixos-hardware/lenovo/legion at master · NixOS/nixos-hardware
GitHub (github.com)
Could give one of these a twirl and see if it fixes the issues you've been seeing.
Thanks for the lead, but I'm afraid I don't know what to do with these modules. Do they only work with NixOS?
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Linux security is not perfect, nothing is. But compared to windows security? Come on, seriously? Is .exe still the extension that'll automatically execute a program?
I'm not sure this is anywhere near what a security comparison would look like.
And the fact that the traditional Unix security model is being augmented with ACLs and selinux and what not hints, that it's not sufficient. And what these things are being used for is, well, similar to Windows security model.
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ReactOS is a very fun project, but anyone expecting it to be a real useable OS is absolutely mad. It's been going for almost 30 years, and they're almost at the point of binary compatibility with Windows Server 2003...
Last I checked it didnt play very nicely in real hardware, and required running it in a VM
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Chromebooks sound good in theory but fall short because kids are great at breaking them and there is a lack of repairability.
There is also chromeos being kinda ass
Idk about the lack of repairability, those things are really easy and cheap to fix in my experience. They are at least no less repairable than 95% of laptops on the market.
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Idk about the lack of repairability, those things are really easy and cheap to fix in my experience. They are at least no less repairable than 95% of laptops on the market.
I couldn't bear to make e-waste, so I repaired two c.~2012 era chromebooks earlier this year. The end result was equal parts rewarding experience and a complete was of my time xD. Those sandy bridge cpus are sloooow
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It may be a bold of me to say, but I hold the controversial opinion that I don't really give a shit which computer OS you use. If you can use a mouse and keyboard to navigate a desktop environment then
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That advice doesn't help much when I already have all the hardware. The whole point is not having to buy new shit.
I wasn't trying to give you advice, I was describing the situation in general.
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Fucking Christ, you have choices people. If windows won’t meet your needs anymore, USE SOMETHING ELSE! Why do these people pretend there are no alternatives to windows?!
Think about all the people with computers that don't know about Linux.
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You're making up scenarios so you can get outraged over them and push linux lol.
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And you can say no if you want to!
Yeah I guess I left that part out! It’s funny because like so many things in Linux, you have all the power but you often don’t need to use it because the same problems just aren’t there.
You get to decide when to apply the updates, but they are so quick and unobtrusive that I choose to apply them immediately!
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Debian user here. All people have a doorkey. Some people have an alarm system as well. Infosec is about ' what do you have and what do you know '. So in principle TPM is a defencible argument. You should absolutely bail from MS products for different reasons. Like privacy. Your PC isn't yours anymore. Your NPU will reduce THEIR costs. Etc.
Don't enter Linux thinking its a drop in replacement. Go slow and do 'ships in the night'. Move data over to the new ship. Start embracing OSS on windows, it'll be familiar when you finally bail.
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ROFL no. I once knew someone who got offered an upgrade from whatever to Windows 10, only for it to fail half way through because their CPU was some weird corner case that the OS thought it supported but when it was time to boot... didn't.
Also if you want to talk e-waste, look no further than Chromebooks.
Windows 11 has problems, this is hardly one of them.
Chromebooks and Apple products hitting EoL for sure.
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I'm grateful to Microsoft for Windows 11 providing me a bunch of free machines to stick in my basement and put Linux on.
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The writer clearly understands that something isn’t adding up with Microsoft’s claims about TPM, but nowhere do they address the accusations that Microsoft plans to use it as DRM (and potentially spying).
Similarly, only supporting certain CPU’s is suspect as hell. Between all this and Recall, it really feels like the driving design focus behind Windows 11 was to build the best spying machine they could.
