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Comment on Linux has had a great year, but there are two reasons I can't tear myself away from Windows

I mean, yes, he should’ve picked a less busy period to test Linux out. But trackpad and wifi issues could come up at any time, which would be troublesome. I’ve gone weeks wihout issues, only to turn my laptop on one day and boom, touchpad doesn’t work. And some days I don’t have my mouse with me to use. And the other issue is Linux is so varied and different that a solution for one person might not work for you. That and lack of proper documentation. I have tried doing crazy shit to fix issues, only to then learn all I had to do was toggle a switch in the settings, but my distro didn’t make it obvious that’s what i should do.

(This LITERALLY is what happened with my touchpad, for some reason it disabled itself in settings after an update a while ago.)

People don’t want to spend weekends fixing their tech, and that’s understandable.

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TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
For the past month or so, I’ve been getting “RDSEED32 is broken” and it seems to be an issue with AMD’s drivers? Either way, there doesn’t appear to be a solution for me outside of getting a new CPU, but it also still boots and works so I’m not too bothered by it either.

But when updates roll around? Yeah, usually a good idea to make a backup before updating. Same is true with Windows, of course, but I already expect Windows to need a reinstall every year or so.

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- spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  For the past month or so, I’ve been getting “RDSEED32 is broken” and it seems to be an issue with AMD’s drivers?
  
  www.amd.com/en/resources/…/amd-sb-7055.html
  
  it sounds like the kernel is just working around a known CPU microcode bug. it would probably be using the 64-bit RDSEED operation anyway, so disabling the 32-bit option probably doesn’t actually change anything.
  
  also, the kernel’s random number generator is very robust (especially since Jason Donenfeld, the author of Wireguard, took over its maintenance) and will work perfectly fine even in the complete absence of RDSEED CPU instructions.
  
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  - TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah that particular issue doesn’t bother me much anyway, just delays startup by a second or two.
    
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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I mean, you could pretty quickly and easily try a different distro

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