Wow...Has it really come full circle? ALL the way around?
It started maybe a month ago. I was getting less and less enthused with my Amazon Fire Stick trying to watch Movies/TV Shows. The user interface on the Fire Stick leaves a lot to be desired. And, my other apps weren't working as well as they used to.
I remembered when I used to watch Amazon Prime stuff on a computer, it was much better.
But, (read the whole article here http://www.atnpc.com/2019/08/standard-definition-restriction-for.html )
So, I ended up using Windows.
That's fine for Amazon Prime, but what about my other shows I watch using other apps?
It turns out that my VPN may suck (read "COMPLETELY unusable") on a Fire Stick (article here http://www.atnpc.com/2019/08/expressvpn-fire-stick-app-known-issue.html ), but it works like a dream in Windows 10.
So, with a VPN, now, what about my apps?
Oh yes! One of them has an app for Windows! Not Linux, but Windows!
Who'da thunk it!
So, am I really going to have to use Windows 10 on my home theater PC to watch Movies and TV Shows?
Yep. And it works extremely well.
Then, just yesterday, I was working on some 12-year old laptops (Dell Lattitude D630). To my great dismay they were EXTREMELY slow to boot any Linux distribution I tried to install.
I did a Windows 10 install and it ran fine.
WTF?!
Research showed that there is a known bug in the linux kernel iteself that involves the Intel Graphics chips in these older laptops. This bug is maybe 3 years old. 3 YEARS OLD! And nobody has fixed this?!
There are a couple of workarounds, but they didn't seem to completely remedy the issue.
[UPDATE - https://www.atnpc.com/2019/08/linux-kernel-known-bug.html ]
But Windows 10 works.
Was there a shift in the space/time continuum or something?
Windows 10 Pro version 1903 seems to be meeting my needs better overall than Linux distributions?
Wow...
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