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Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on its new PCs | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My Ubuntu box I use for browsing/watching videos and listening to music just barely works and was frustrating to get properly configured.

Something is wrong. Have you tried Linux Mint? -Someone who has used Linux as a daily driver since 2001.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t. I doubt it would solve all of the problems I experience.

Anybody downvoting me can share their experience running protools with multiple hardware fader interfaces and 18 input DAW interface, pci SDI cards, and 6 separate display monitors.

Adobe software, Davinci Resolve, 3ds Max and its 20 plugins. None of these work or work seamlessly in Linux.

I can’t even get my surround sound to work properly in Ubuntu without having to manually adjust multiple convoluted conf files.

That’s the truth. I love Linux. I use Debian and Ubuntu on a bunch of servers I run. But fanboys need to stop deluding themselves into thinking it’s easy or even worthwhile to use Linux in lieu of Windows for anything and everything. I would be ecstatic if that changed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Your surround sound, I'm sure it could be done. I've set up some pretty successful visual / audio stuff with Linux. I did IT for an Indy film festival four years in a row and we used Linux for all kinds of stuff (mostly because the festival was broke and didn't want to spend money on new computers or software). We would run into hardware and configuration issues and our philosophy became "if you can't solve it in two hours, distrohop."

For the rest of it, I couldn't agree more. If you need the tools that lock you to the platform, you need the platform FOR THOSE TOOLS. I have Windows and OSX machines (although it's been like a year since I couldn't do something on Wine, even if it's glitchy). My Windows machines dual boot and I haven't booted the windows partitions in literally 6-8 months. One OSX machine gets used almost exclusively for video conferencing (just because it's in a convenient place) and for Garageband. The other OSX machine literally... just runs linux VMs that I can connect to over the network for various projects. I had other plans for it originally, but someone gave me a 6 year old Dell all in one that now runs Linux Mint and performs better than my actual Roku TV anyway. It's a bit smaller than the TV, but it doesn't matter to me. The TV disappeared into my wife's office and now she's the only one that uses it.