Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by mehrdadn on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:22PM (#16260339)

> If you have to upgrade a GUI app, or a tool that depends on some bastardized unholy subsystem designed to "secure desktop sessions", that may very well require relinquishing the session and restarting it. If you have to upgrade a tool used by your desktop (and if you have a complex desktop, that is literally thousands of programs), it's the same story, though you may even need to restart your desktop session manager or even your display server.

Thanks, I'm glad at least one person agrees I'm not hallucinating. The vast majority of people here are telling me I'm basically the only one this happens to.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by krinchan on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:43PM (#16262945)

I've long since abandoned "bare metal" Linux in favor of VirtualBox and Windows for my home machine and VirtualBox and macOS on my laptop.

Monday's I merge last week's snapshot, take a new one, and run all my updates. Then I do my dev work in my VM. Before I head out on trips, I just ship the entire machine over the network to my MacBook Pro.

This is mostly because have you literally ever tried to install any Linux on laptops? It's always a Russian roulette with those $+#&ing Broadcom wireless chipsets. >.<

So you're not hallucinating. Linux as a desktop/laptop had a sweet spot from like...2012-ish till 2016. Then 802.11ac went mainstream so Broadcom released new chipsets and graphics cards had a whole thing with new drivers and Ubuntu's packagers (the people) lost their mind or something.

Nothing feels right, at least in Ubuntu/Arch land right now.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by michaelmrose on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @01:43AM (#16263346)

How about just buy stuff that's well supported if you intend to use Linux on it. Been working for me since 2003.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by krinchan on Monday February 05, 2018 @09:38AM (#16308971)

Because I don't buy my laptops. My employer does.

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