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  • Thanks for the write up these are always good to read.

    As for convincing people for the first few months on linux its best to not proselytizing to much. Once you understand the pros and cons better then proselytizing is fine. I personally find it most effective to never tell someone they should switch or make them feel bad for not using linux. I just talk about linux positively and my own experiences with it and naturally people are like oh that sounds pretty cool. I usually dont hand hold either if they want to switch I straight up say there will be software you cant run and you will have to learn how to use it. I tell them some of their games wont work and point them to protondb. They are always pleasantly surprised at how many games work. I think the privacy argument is not at all convincing for most people they just dont value it at all. the best argument I’ve found is that Linux is efficient and quick, it gets out of your way and there are cool features that the other operating systems dont have.

    I cringe so hard when I see people advertise linux as faster than windows, just works no issue completely easy transition because i know linux and I know something weird will break and shatter the illusion and they will feel extra bad because all they know about linux was that it was a super good just works experience. So I act like there will be minor issues and then they can be surprised if there is none and ready if there are some.














  • The ones you listed are loaded later therefore they weren’t able to establish a chain of trust and were easily bypassed even at a software level. This change is cool because its using a combination of advancements in hardware and kernel tech to give up that early load order. Windows has been trying to a long time to get a solid chain of trust and now its reliable enough that we’re seeing vanguard skip the boot and feel confident enough in the windows chain of trust to verify that none of the drivers have been tampered. Its a better experience for the user, maybe we will see other anti cheats follow.

    I’ve never installed vanguard and I never will. I dont run windows but I can appreciate tech without being a dogmatic spazmoid about it. If you read the article you’d know all this.