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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch (www.theregister.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete."

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[–] 57 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Exactly. A lot of people seem to think that different = worse, or that not supporting the same software means it supports less software. I couldn't move to Windows right now because there is a ton of stuff I use Linux for that Windows has no alternative, or the alternatives are terrible. It works both ways.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Honestly, I love having a w11 rig AND a laptop with zorin and a laptop with w10 and a old all in one with mint. Variety is the spice of life, I need a Windows laptop to tune my cars ecus. Simply not able to do it in Linux, but my Linux laptop has stuff my windows doesn't. Real ones can't just live with one os B)

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    I wonder if the software you need for cars would run under Wine.

    For years I kept one Windows laptop running only so I could use one proprietary app that I used occasionally when teaching. It was not ideal, but whatever. Then Windows started showing ads. on the desktop. that I was showing to my students! That I will not tolerate. So I poked around with Wine and found out I could run that app on my Mint laptop!

    Goodbye forever TinyFlaccid. Go fuck yourself.

    (note: I do have to use a windows machine for one thing still - to print at work using my company supplied office computer. sigh.)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder if the software you need for cars would run under Wine.

    While maybe it could work, that's not the kind of thing you want to mess around with, since if it misbehaves even a little bit it can brick your ECU and leave you with a multi-thousand dollar repair bill

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That's just FUD.

    Test it under Wine. If it's working, you're good to go. Wine can't make software misbehave in subtle ways. It works or it doesn't.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago

    As someone who's worked in IT for years, it's my opinion that different is worse.

    I don't really mind supporting multiple operating systems, it is a little more of a hassle, but it's far better than supporting users on systems they're not familiar with. As much of a nice idea it is to "streamline" an organization by putting every machine on the same os, in my experience it actually works better to put everyone in whatever os they're most comfortable with. For a lot of people computers are hard, period. And needing to learn new systems just to do their job is the kind of thing they have nightmares about.

    When it comes right down to, any modern operating system will do just fine, they're shockingly similar in the end. Plus, in many industries upwards of 80% of a user's work may be in a browser anyway. So that's where I stand, people should use whatever they want, and making people change isn't a great idea.

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