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Given all the headaches it causes and the ability of M$ to simply shut everyone else out if they really wanted to.... or to leave backdoors into other OS's which might partially be what the whole new linux in windows thing is actually about.... I see no real benefit to UEFI beyond the cosmetic.

Interesting that most people disagreeing with the OP does so in extremely immature ways...... if you were so obviously so correct you would not be disgracing the community in such a foolish manner. Yes linux is more complicated than it needs to be, yes there needs to be more GUI alternatives that do...

He has WAY too many ex's......

Linux is not designed with backward compatibility in mind, the assumption is perpetual updates in the open source utopia. No one focuses on developing anything that will stay both static and usable so there usually is no mind to keeping dependencies small because it's assumed that the major dependen...

Every time I attempt to use clonezilla I get WAY too paranoid that I did something wrong so I never actually do anything...

Basically they never fixed the same problems from years ago. On one hand most of the POL scripts are outdated On the other hand there is something seriously wrong with their wine packages Guess they figured it's a waste of time to fix and are focusing all their energies on POL 5..... whenever that a...

There was one bug I picked up.... my 17" secondary CRT displayed at 1080p of all things and any attempt to change the resolution resulted in no signal. After I installed the nvidia proprietary drivers this went away.

Seems like my theory that most people update their mobile device firmware but not their desktop firmware was correct.... only 16 votes though.

There seems to be a lot of differing opinions over what to update and when.

Some rely solely on OS patches because of bricking fears or performance concerns and others religiously update the BIOS.

So I got curious who does what and why?

Using a DosBox frontend is probably your best bet.

Simply use Firejail for that job: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/sandbox.html#ID11 (item 11) Just modify the menu items and panel launchers for the apps you wish to deny internet access, and you're done. No need for any third-party software which isn't in the official repo's. :mrgreen:...

Zonealarm was great with winXP.... then there was a period of no good free firewall, now Comodo of all things is the best.... terrible AV but good Firewall.... just don't enable hips it's basically UAC and having two of them is redundant. Hopefully Comodo wakes up and brings out a proper Linux versi...

Well it's not as if they have much choice with 32bit support but there is going to definitely be problems with a complete crossover. It's like Firefox and the addon support drop, many STILL have not been redone to the new standard and I myself have to keep a outdated portable version around for one ...

snap/flatpak is fine in concept.... in practice everyone in positions of power implements it lazily and hastily because they themselves half the time never have to use it..... it's similar to gaming company ceo's that are not gamers. No one REALLY thought it through completely instead they just slap...

And then there's this: Gizmodo: Steam Is About to Drop Official Support for Ubuntu To be honest, I have no sympathy for developers who refuse to update their code for modern hardware and OSs. As far as I am personally concerned, fsck Valv and their stupid proprietary game makers. That said, I suppo...

And this is NOT a hardware issue this is only about 32bit SOFTWARE and LIBS. If someone still dont understand that this isn't about computers that can't run 64 bit software but about removing support for legacy software MAINLY Wine based software. This is chopping one leg off Linux on the desktop a...

What confuses me is why grub rescue is still so barebones.... they could at least add a easy scan-and-repair type option that does not require googling the current 5 lines of commands (the bane of linux is the plethora of outdated tut's that ruin systems instead of fixing them) to do the same thing....

Even keeping up to date wont be enough once a proper malware offensive starts.... this false sense of security WILL cause major problems somewhere in the future especially with how sloppily containers (flatpak, etc) are being handled I think, but then again I'm paranoid.

2MB ADSL SAfrica... it's just a joy to share with the rest of the house.

This is why I always copy long posts to clipboard just in case.