Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by riskable on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:25AM (#16257974)

> I don't know about you, but it happens more often than I would like that I update Linux (Ubuntu) and, lo and behold, I can't really use any programs until I reboot. Sometimes the window rendering gets messed up, sometimes I get random error pop-ups, sometimes stuff just doesn't run.

This is less of an issue with Linux, per se, and more to do with proprietary video drivers.

I have multiple systems in my home with various GPUs. The systems running Intel and AMD GPUs with open source drivers don't have this problem. The two desktops with Nvidia GPUs have this problem whenever the Nvidia driver is updated.

I also had the same exact problem with my AMD system back when it was running the proprietary fglrx driver.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by ksk on Monday January 29, 2018 @12:21PM (#16258927)

>This is less of an issue with Linux, per se, and more to do with proprietary video drivers.

Actually, it IS a problem with Linux. I don't get this behavior on my Windows or OSX machines where NVIDIA has been reliably (modulo obvious caveats) shipping "evil proprietary" drivers for a decade.

Linux is great, but it doesn't need to be coddled.

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