Do you ever replace computers just for something newer and faster?

[freebeard]

But Windows on ARM still needs to emulate x86 Windows apps, high level language or not. And MacOS on the new M series (ARM based) chips also needs to emulate x86 MacOS apps, high language or not. And Linux faces the same challenges. There's no getting around it.

Sounds to me like a fool's errand wild goose chase. Do you know about Windows 11 and Recall? Do you follow JCristna? He got lawfare for telling people how to successfully unsubscribe from the Adobe products (and now the DOJ is on their tail).

Here he is on Windows. At least listen to the intro and outro to see how serious the situation is.

Life After Microsoft Windows Cutting The Cord

Fedora 40 sounds interesting, I might try it on my new Raspberry Pi.

If you don't understand the problem, here's Richard Stallman: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Surveillance_resistance

He refers to mobile phones as "portable surveillance and tracking devices",[106] refusing to own a cell phone due to the lack of phones running entirely on free software.[107] He also avoids using a key card to enter his office building[108] since key card systems track each location and time that someone enters the building using a card. He usually does not browse the web directly from his personal computer. Instead, he uses GNU Womb's grab-url-from-mail utility, an email-based proxy which downloads the webpage content and then emails it to the user.[109][110] More recently, he stated that he accesses all websites via Tor, except for Wikipedia (which generally disallows editing from Tor unless users have an IP block exemption).[111][112]

[freebeard]

Now I'm listening to:

Microsoft Window Alternative Linux Second Thoughts

This is about Nvidia drivers, but it gets into the Terminal. I use the Terminal more in Raspian OS than I did in Mac OS.

If I needed video compositing and editing I'd use Blender, because I understand node editors. Blender is adding node editors everywhere.

[Piotrsko]

Ummm unless you are running a development compiler version of Windows, last I saw it was running using a binary set of instructions or commands. Digested assembler, so to speak. Definitely restricted to the silicone, since afaik, you still cant easily install Win 11 on apple hardware. Reasonable sure freebeard doesn't want it on his new Pi.

That said, loaded software is mostly optimized to the silicone so you cant really do speed/task timing runs, but this concept of speed seems to have gone the way of Edsels , but it is why you have many gigs of direct access memory instead of writing to storage like back on the 8080 processor days.

I would suspect the Pi5 is faster than anything running bloatware

[freebeard]

I've never used Windows. Don't want to start. I still have Apple machines but their not world-facing.

The RP4 was limited in the number of browser tabs it can open, the new one is 8Gb hoping that helps.

Not sure why Isaac Zachary is fixated on Windows; I suspect it must be gaming, that's my son's use case.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I've never used Windows. Don't want to start. I still have Apple machines but their not world-facing.

The RP4 was limited in the number of browser tabs it can open, the new one is 8Gb hoping that helps.

Not sure why Isaac Zachary is fixated on Windows; I suspect it must be gaming, that's my son's use case.

Symantec didn't have you running Windows?

Folks that run Windows want an OS that is between the extremes of very restrictive, like Apple, and requiring expertise, like Linux. It's no wonder the popular OS fits between "you can only do what we allow", to, "you can do whatever you want, if you write the software and drivers".

[freebeard]

Symantec didn't have you running Windows?

Touché.

I usually say never a single dollar to Microsoft. I did it for money. At Symantec I spent a year and a half in the Windows queue, helping people edit their Windows registry over the telephone. That's really flying blind, but I never lost a 'patient'.

Apple restrictive? OSX has easy access to the Terminal. It's not much of a gaming platform.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Apple restrictive? OSX has easy access to the Terminal. It's not much of a gaming platform.

Can you get root access?

For me to get a photo off my iPhone, I have to email it to myself. 90's tech.

[freebeard]

I never used it much so ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯. Have you tried AirDrop?

Use AirDrop on your Mac - Apple Support
Feb 7, 2024Use AirDrop on your Mac. With AirDrop, you can wirelessly send documents, photos, videos, websites, map locations, and more to a nearby Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Vision Pro. Share content with AirDrop. Open the file that you want to send, then click the Share button in the app

JCristina is back today with Life After Microsoft Windows GAME ON! His observation is that Steam (possibly with Proton middleware) has opened the floodgate; and stuff runs faster than under Windows.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

I never used it much so ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯. Have you tried AirDrop?

Works pretty slick between one iPhone and others. I might be able to get the photos if I plug a USB cable to my Windows PC, and figure out the share settings each time I plug in.

Heck, my old Android phones could even send a photo via Bluetooth, something which iPhone doesn't do whatsoever.

It's why I never owned an iPod; it was feature poor, but cost a fortune.

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Not sure why Isaac Zachary is fixated on Windows; I suspect it must be gaming, that's my son's use case.

About the only gaming I do are card games like Solitaire and FreeCell, and some retro computer games like SimTower and SimCity.

I use Windows mostly because most amateur radio software runs on Windows, as well as a couple of other programs I use frequently, sometimes daily.

I have tried Linux and will continue to keep trying it. When all the programs/apps I use work on Linux or have suitable alternatives on Linux I will make the switch and never go back to Windows. But going to Linux right now would mean I would have to give up using the programs I use the most right now.