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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • as difficult as plugging in a flash drive

    That’s a gross over-simplification

    They have to

    1. Download the windows ISO
      • How do you find the original ISO and not a cracked one?
    2. Get instructions to modify the ISO
      • Hope you get the right set of instructions from a genuine website
    3. Download Rufus and install
    4. Make backup of their data
      • Hope you disabled Bitlocker also
    5. Reboot and press the F? key to change boot order (F? varies from system to system)
      • How do you even find the right key for this?
    6. Follow the installation process

    One of the reasons Linux is not widespread is because following these “simple” instructions is too much for an average user. So I doubt a Windows user will be bothered to modify their OS. I have installed different variants of Linux 100s of time and even I need to check online if their are any hidden gotchas.





  • Hi, you’re absolutely correct and sorry for being unclear.

    I mean precise TDP control (16W or 17W) and custom fan curves. I’ve used HHD, it’s also good. Most people simple switch between power saving / balanced / performance but wanted to go down further to extract a little more juice out of the device.

    SimpleDeckyTDP is a bit tricky (open desktop mode - open terminal - paste command) to install but offers more customisation.



  • You’re welcome!

    I have been very particular in this review about the experience of using Windows compared to Bazzite, not the performance. I’ve seen many reviews talk about how one is offere 5-10 FPS more than the other OS but you really don’t notice that most of the time.

    Windows can do everything that Linux can do on average but the experience is vastly different. That is what I’m trying to say in this post.








  • What kind of use-cases was it, where you didn’t find suitable local models to work with ?

    Any time you ask very domain specific questions; eg “i have collected some soil samples from the mesolithic age near the Amazon basin which have high sulfur and phosphorus content compared to my other samples. What factors could contribute to this distribution?”, both of-the-shelf local models & OpenAI fail.

    The main reason is because these models are not trained on highly-specialized domains of text. Sometimes the models start hallucinating and which reduces our trust upon them.