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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by adwn on Sunday September 29, 2019 @06:48AM (#21106297)
> You'll see that except for old targets (or highly proprietary ones like fpga) [...]

Your overall point is stronger than you think: Xilinx's FPGA toolchain [1] has official Linux support, and their embedded software toolchain (based on yocto and gcc) actually depends on Linux!

[1] Xilinx is the market leader for general purpose and high-performance FPGAs. The situation is slightly different for space-grade and very low-power FPGAs, although Microsemi has been supporting Linux for many years as well.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by JetSpiegel on Sunday September 29, 2019 @07:36AM (#21106452)
Official Suport for Xilinx means "should work some of the time", provided you use this old and bloated daemon to communicate over USB. You will still need a separate hardware killswitch to work remotely, because the driver is flaky as hell.
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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by panpanna on Sunday September 29, 2019 @10:27AM (#21107211)
"should work some of the times" is also what you get on Windows.

Source: buddy worked as sw QA for xilinx.

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