I do some writing where I import graphic illustrations into a document. That needs a bit more computer capacity… mainly space for large .pdf files., but nothing like the gpu power needed for video editing or games.
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I am a religious person. Ethics of reverse engineering seems OK to me , as long as you dont do it for personal gain. Drivers like nouveau should be in the public domain so that everyone can benefit. The sad thing about nouveau is that it was not quite clever enough to fully utilize the nvidia gpu’s.
I think companies cooperating with linux is a better solution than reverse engineering. The good news is that nvidia now say they are going to do that, so future nvidia cards should be linux-proof. I will wait and see if that eventuates.
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some people also mentioned that Linux has the power to revive an (seriously) old computer
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And that is one of the most ignorant statement I hear about Linux!!! Linux, sometimes,is in need of hardware that is as good or better than Windows. At least you have a desktop PC, and the gpu can be replaced, a older laptop and the graphics issue becomes almost impossible to work with!!!
I do run Linux, on some older machines, but only within the limits of what Linux will run, do not have the time or desire to make Linux into another Windows machine. save your money and invest in a machine that is capable of doing your “video editing”!!!
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I am not very religious person if that means worshipping GOD in the traditional way. Anyway, I am glad that you also support reverse engineering as long as it is done for public benefit and to fully utilize the capabilities of Nvidia GPUs, NOUVEAU needs reverse engineering of Nvidia graphics drivers, which ultimately benefit all the Linux users who might be thinking of keeping their a bit older computers because of budget constraints because only 10% of wealth is in the hand of 90% of the world’s population. So, it is very logical if someone wants to keep their not-so-new computer for few more years and use it for whatever work they do to earn money, be it normal office works or graphics intensive works.
And they will be super-expensive. Actually that day might be coming when buying a graphics card would be a luxury or may be the total PC thing would be a luxurious item, who knows?
On this, I cannot agree with you. If Linux does work on the vast majority of desktops, then why its market share is only 4% worldwide?! And BSD? It’s almost out of the scenario. Today, the surge on Linux market share, which has raised to 4% worldwide, is because of Microsoft’s greediness, sorry to say. But just like everyone needs a second chance in life, this Linux’s second chance to outperform Windows which it can… if… Yes, to make it a complete OS, the developers of GNU/LINUX should seriously think about this ‘IF’ and if they overcome this ‘IF’ in any way, nobody in the world, not even Mr. Bill ‘SHADY’ Gates will be able to supress Linux to be the number one OS in the world.
Once upon a time they will land on the 2nd hand market anyway. So it’s just matter of time.
As for the luxury, I think the gaming is already the luxurious part of computing…
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This ‘U’ generation processors are basically for laptops as they are underpowered. If you use it in desktop then I would recommend replacing it with a desktop processor (which does not have ‘U’ at the end).
I bought a €300 computer (minipc form factor). It’s an Asus MiniPC PN-50. The processor is probably soldered to the main board. I won’t upgrade because 1) for my purposes this is enough, 2) the ‘U’ processors don’t consume that much power, and 3) because of personal reasons (which is the main reason I bought such a low-power system).
It does YouTube, Spotify, and Zoom happily. LibreOffice gets a bit slow with all the features I use intensely (not much markup, but rather things to help with my editor (the job, that is, not the program type)), but that is fine. I didn’t buy this computer to play AAA titles or do any heavy media creation.
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Super looking little box, idea for small desk space.
Yes agree hard to upgrade but at that price with linux on ideal.
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I don’t agree 100%.
It depends on the expectations.
If the owner expect maximum performance, because wants to run an R script on a huge dataset calculating something DNA related whatever (actually my son used to do such things), then yes, replace the CPU.
If the expactation is low power consumption for whatever reason (for example it’s a small server which runs 24/7), and performance / watt is the main goal, then just let th “U” alone in its place 
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Because people are intellectually lazy. Linux requires mental effort.
If you want something easy and not Windows choose MacOS or Android or ChromOS. They are all Unix… just like Linux
The Unix share worldwide is much greater than 4%. Linux is a minor player in the Unix world. Windows share worldwide is 30% and declining… all the rest is Unix… Unix is winning
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And in the end that is all the majority of users either require or even needs, and Windows is all most know. You would hear my wife screaming, even in Aussie land, if you take her Windows PC, I built the PC, but she will not even let me use it!!!
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Gift of Windows.
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Another of my story. 
Back in the middle of 1990’s there was the saying:
“create a system which can be used by idiots too, it will be used by idiots only”.
Yes, that mocked Windows and its users, that time Windows 95 arrived, but OS/2 was available too. I think Linux was not there yet, but Windows was definitely not the only option. OS/2 vanished, Linux arrived…
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By about 1995 there was PCbsd, Freebsd, Netbsd, and Linux… all downloadable as floppy disk images.
It took about 10 floppies to install Freebsd., plus you needed a DOS boot floppy.
In my world in the 1990’s there were still minicomputers with VMS and Berkeley Unix, and there were Sun Workstations ( risc based) with SunOS ( bsd based) or Solaris( sysV based).
One of the ‘in’ activities was to replace a Sun workstation with a PC running bsd or linux. The PC’s at the time needed a SCSI adaptor and SCSI disks to make a decent workstation replacement.
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We mainly used DOS that time, few used Windows 3.x on top of it, and then Windows 95 came. I did not hear a single word about Linux then.
I liked OS/2 very much, I remember I needed to go to an office, register my name and adress and got a CD for free. I’m sure it was Warp 4.
From the CD I could install it.
The main reason I adored OS/2, was that it was a great and STABLE multitasker.
I could run all my DOS based programs, including games, such like Duke-nukem 
and also apps meant for Windows 3.x, and crashing a Windows-something (that time it was quite frequent) didn’t hurt the rest of the system.
I don’t know why OS/2 did not have better succes, it felt rock-solid, and was able to fulfil a home users all needs.
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It still exists… see ArcaOS
There is even active development
Is it FOSS ?
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Like.
László I also thought os/2 was a step in the right direction, we had one classroom set up with just that as a rival to windows in other rooms. Worked well with students, but then was dropped as windows took over.
Thought it had just died…
But the most popular room was always the apple, especially when i upgraded from se 30 to Big Mac Macintosh Quadra 700… what power.
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The problem with PowerShell, is that there’s no easily accessible/useable user manual packaged with Windows. IMNSHO, if you’re going to provide a tool like that, you should include a user’s guide for users who want to understand how to use it. I’ve used PowerShell, but only when I’m given a command (from a trusted source) to enter into it, to accomplish some specific task. If nothing else, Microsoft should provide a catalog of comandlets, what they do, and any ‘switches’ they recognize. But then again, when has Microsoft ever done anything like that?
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It is now free and open source I believe. I don’t know that it always was. Moving from Windows to Linux is a bit of an issue too, but probably the same as with Python.
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