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Why? I've worked in two companies where IT allows Linux as an option and people are constantly having issues (including me). And these are highly technical people. Two people who are not stupid managed to break their laptops by uninstalling Python 2 which Gnome depended on.

Yes that's technically a UX issue, but there are plenty of good old bugs too, e.g. if you remove a VPN connection that a WiFi network autoconnects to then that WiFi network will entirely stop working with no error messages to speak of. Took me a long time to figure that out. Or how about the fact that 4k only works at 30fps over HDMI, but it works fine over DisplayPort or Thunderbolt3. The hardware fully supports it and it works for other people with the same OS and laptop. I never figured that out.

That's just a taster... I almost never have issues like that on Windows or Mac.

Windows may cost more than "free" but the additional support costs for Linux are very far from free too.

Maybe something like Chromebooks makes sense if everything is in the cloud.

Doesn't sound impossible. Apparently their ARM laptops are very good.

It means to sell, with a slight negative connotation that it's a hard sell.

Not really. It will predict more vulgar output but that is fixed by fine tuning. It's not going to "poison" it in any meaningful sense.

Wow the level of drama and anger here is crazy. I assume it was cathartic to write at least!

But you'd still be crazy to use it for either of those purposes, given how safety critical they are. I expect it would be more likely used in robots like Spot, or manufacturing robots.

Yeah good point about the license. I guess it depends on the terms they have.

Still, 80% of something is better than 100% of nothing...

RISC-V isn't quite mature enough to replace AMD's chips yet but it would make sense as a long term goal.

It's not too bad if you strictly enforce Pyright, Pylint and Black.

But I have yet to work with Python code other than my own that does that. So in practice you are right.

Why is x86 on the way out? There's a few things that are converging:

• Moore's law is dead enough that the difference between the ARM and x86 ISAs is relatively significant. Nobody cared about a 20% difference when computers were doubling in speed every 2 years but they no longer are. You can see that in other areas like Google adding support for 16kB pages, which gives a relatively small 5% performance boost which never would have been worth the effort in the past.
• Intel is being absolutely trounced by TSMC on manufacturing.
• ARM has matured enough to enter the laptop/desktop space.
• Apple switched to ARM, proving it can be done, and proving that it's a huge improvement.
• Emulation of x86 on ARM has matured to the point where it works with little fuss or overhead. I believe ARM has added instructions to help with this (but don't quote me on that).

ARM has much better efficiency and price than x86, and software compatibility is basically solved. There aren't really any fundamental reasons left to stick with x86, so when more systems become available (it's pretty limited right now) people will switch.

Where did I leave my Eee PC?

Hopefully AMD doesn't get complacent and stick with x86 forever. I don't think anyone would have guessed it even 5 years ago but it's pretty clearly on the way out. I'm sure it will stick around for another 5 or 10 years, but in 15 years people will look at you funny if you buy an x86 chip.

Ok that was maybe a bit unfair!