On 12/20/2016 06:57 PM, Mike Mez wrote:
This is/immensely/ helpful. To reiterate... to make sure I understand,
with "windows problems" easy is easy and impossible is basically
impossible (which I can say with experience is fairly on the money of
my experience as well). With Linux, the difficultly curve of problems
are kind of inverted when compared to windows. The easy problems are
now stubborn, while the really hard programs are now possibly easier
courtesy of established documentation. While such might not be true
for all cases, of course, generally this is the jest of what to
expect, yes?
I would say on Linux/FOSS the easy problems are less stubborn than they
are "easy to find solutions but require steps that are more annoying or
tedious". But there will be times when you will think "that was much
smoother than Windows", no doubt.
Furthermore, unlike windows, the GUI in Linux is less of an operator
then it is in windows. The way to go about things in Linux is the
command line interface, which may make problem solving initially a bit
more... problematic for those who only know how to move around in a
GUI. So I being a windows user might what to look up on that.
Qubes seems to use GUI examples where possible. It has a stronger notion
of a "default GUI" than most Linux "distros" do. Linux distros have a
strong tendency toward showing solutions in the CLI because they assume
GUIs will vary a lot depending on what the user has chosen.
You also mention "just because PC... doesn't mean it will work", which
I am already aware of, but thank you all the same. I'll make sure to
look up the Qubes HCL link.
Finally, I don't have the available cash to buy multiple variants of
particular models or brands of GPUs nor am I able per say to
experiment with other models in a process of trial and error, through
I would certainly like to give it a shot if I could. Fortunately, what
I do have is knowledge of places to purchase parts which have a
stellar return policies. So, that may be an option. Honestly the only
people I know of that have that kind of capital are the ones that do
it for a living on YouTube like LinusTechTips, Bitwit, and Pauls
Hardware. Oh so much to do... so little to do it all. :/
I see people now and then on the list who fight with incompatible
hardware, and keep putting themselves through misery because they think
its either Qubes' problem or due to something they just missed somehow.
They assume wrongly that hardware is some kind of smooth, blank slate
and don't realize that adding Xen to the equation in the particular way
Qubes does takes the somewhat constrained compatibility of Linux and
narrows it down much further. Systems that work best use middle- and
high-end Intel and AMD chips for most functions, like Wifi and graphics
and audio, and have fewer BIOS bugs; These tend to come from the
business lines of Lenovo, Dell, and HP.
Chris
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