Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Friday Checkout" channel.

  1. In the US, any attempt to interfere with radio signals will bring the FCC down on you. I remember in the early days of wi-fi, an airport somewhere tried to block free wi-fi signals from other providers so it could charge for its own service. That didn’t last long.
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  2. There is a class of user that likes to complain about stuff they use, yet keep using it anyway. Microsoft appeals directly to that crowd.
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  3. Adobe doesn’t really matter that much any more. There was a survey done of the VFX industry about a year ago, and 60% of their machines run Linux. So the lack of Adobe support isn’t stopping this share from growing.
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  4.  @carlosnava1471  There are quite a few graphic design channels here on YouTube that focus on Free software. E.g. Davies Media Design, Logos by Nick. These are professionals making a living from the tools they use. And finding the time to teach others about them.
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  5. The trouble with Windows is it is too full of legacy stuff that nobody left at the company understands, that tends to break in mysterious ways if it is touched. MinWin was as far as they could go without touching that stuff, which is why it was a failure.
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  6. Windows can’t even run properly on ARM, even after decades of trying, RISC-V is more than Microsoft can manage. A multi-architecture future will be centred around Linux, possibly also the open-source BSDs, but not Windows.
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  7. 1:40 “You seems to have an ad blocker on” ... how’s that for an ad?
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  8. RISC-V has some interesting ideas. For example, its approach to vector processing is completely different from the SIMD style so popular among Intel, ARM and others, and harks back to the legendary Seymour Cray’s vector supercomputers from the 1970s and 1980s.
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  9. They tried that with Atom, but got trounced by ARM. Given their current financial situation, they are unlikely to try again.
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  10.  @fungo6631  But they never made money for Intel. Which is why it gave up.
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  11. Apple may have hit a “sunk-cost fallacy” situation now: having invested so much in ARM, they will be reluctant to move to something else. And their M1/M2 designs were brilliant, but are a bit of an evolutionary dead-end. They achieve performance by tying everything together so it becomes impossible to upgrade--basically, all their machines are now glorified laptops. This may be OK for all-in-one desktops, and actual laptops, but it’s going to cause them trouble coming up with a successor to the workstation-class Mac Pro machines.
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  12.  @garanceadrosehn9691  The point being how those chips are integrated into a non-modular design. This isn’t going to go down well in the workstation market.
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  13. I think the logistics of licensing the “open-source” versions of those other architectures has never been quite as easy as RISC-V has made it.
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  14. They could pay developers to port their apps. Otherwise it’s not going to happen.
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  15. For those who think that ARM processors are somehow wimpy, let me just point out that the most powerful computer in the world right now https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/2020/06/ runs on ARM. Numbers 2 and 3 are machines based on IBM’s POWER9 architecture, while number 4 is a machine built on either MIPS or Alpha, nobody is quite sure. Intel/AMD doesn’t make an appearance until 5th place.
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  16. Such interference with your OS will likely become a licence violation.
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  17. Remember, ARM Ltd has been in business for about 30 years. You don’t survive that long without making a comfortable profit. But now the managers are just getting greedy.
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  18. Windows on ARM is never going to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem: people aren’t going to buy the machines because they don’t have native apps, and vendors aren’t going to bother to make native apps if nobody is going to buy them.
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  19. Just in time for your subscription to expire.
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  20. Fun fact: x86 is only the 3rd most popular processor architecture in the world. It is outshipped about 3:1 by MIPS, and both are left in the dust by ARM, which ships more processors per year than the entire population of the Earth.
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  21.  @alexander-jl6cs  “why don't I see any powerful hardware using arm architecture?” Ummm ... the most powerful computer in the world right now is built on ARM processors https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/2020/06/ . Places 2 and 3 go to IBM POWER9 machines, while number 4 could be either MIPS or Alpha-like, nobody is quite sure. Intel doesn’t make an appearance until 5th place.
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  22. Given Microsoft’s repeated failures trying to support ARM, would this be a case of sour grapes? You have the Linux source code, which runs fine on ARM, RISC-V and loads of other architectures, why not learn some things from it?
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