Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks
Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks
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He's not the only one. Laptops especially seem to crash regularily nowadays, regardless the OS.
I'd like to see hardware classified by boringness and thus stability.
That’s not what this is about. He’s complaining about hardware developers putting more work on kernel developers by making them patch all the CPU vulnerabilities that are introduced by trying to increase performance.
I've never had my laptop crash unless I was playing STALKER, GAMMA. What makes your laptop crash? I'm not doubting you, I'm just curious.
Waking up from sleep mode mostly.
Every security feature ever made has basically started by absolutely dumping on S3 recovery. S3 recovery requires every device in the computer to give you a complete understanding of how to bring it up cold without engaging the boot flow. Sometimes devices don't do this because they are lazy, other times they don't do this for security reasons.
Had that until I stopped using the nvidia GPU.
I have that too! It started after an update at the beginning of this month. It seems to be a new bug that I cant reliably replicate. Do you have an AMD cpu/gpu?
Not op, I have AMD Ryzen 7, but I haven't had the issue. I have all Windows bloatware un-installed or disabled, though.
Edit: I had one issue (one time, so I forgot about it), but I think it was a user error (me). I had to uninstall Linux because I either didn't update Windows or Linux (I think it was Linux), and their security systems were in conflict. Windows wouldn't even start until I used the BIOS to uninstall Linux. I had a backup, but a lost of little bit of data because I couldn't figure out how to make a new one. I reinstalled the updated version, and I didn't have any more issues.
I recently got a Minisforum V3 and put arch on it.
Not only has it never crashed so far, but sleep and waking up worked out of the box, which was a huge surprise to me.
I've definitely moved back to desktops. Still have my laptops but I use them in limited cases.
Not the kinds of bugs he is talking about. This is about spectre mitigations.
Not trying to shill for Apple or anything, but I have found MacBooks (excluding the 2015 MacBook, and the 2016-2020 Air and Pro models) to be extremely stable and reliable, especially since they use their custom ARM CPU/SOCs. It reminds me of the good old PowerPC days, these machines were also reliable, basically unbreakable like a tank. In build quality, hardware and software. With the ARM transition, Apple really appears to have brought back the glory days of computing (unfortunately not in terms of upgradability and repairability, but at least in quality, stability and reliability).
I'm even more excited for the continiously improving Linux support on these devices - thanks to the amazing Asahi Linux ([email protected]) project. Also consider following them on Mastodon: @[email protected]
I will say I've never ever even once had an issue with my M1 pro 16", can't say that about any other laptop I've owned (be it battery swelling, software bugs, or "issues" one learns to live with like sleep mode causing boot crashes or sleep mode draining battery %). Kinda amazing in hindsight.
I will say I’ve never ever even once had an issue with my M1 pro 16",
Same for my M1 Pro 14", the only issue I have is that the macOS version of Firefox just absolutely obliterates my battery, I mostly use Safari now, because it's much better optimized. That's really quite unfortunate, but it's not Apple's fault, and I don't see any hope for this, unless Mozilla decides to continue development of the Rust-based Servo browser engine, and eventually Firefox may switch away from the antiquated and incredibly inefficient Gecko code.