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Originally posted by birdie View Post
Who said that?
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Originally posted by birdie View Post
Who said that?
I've been using Linux for 26 years, I just don't like creating accounts everywhere. While you don't have to write drivers as often as when I started using Linux, when there weren't drivers for nearly anything, it is still a common occurrence when you intentionally choose unsupported hardware.
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Originally posted by calc View Post
You've clearly have used Linux for long enough to know that's true as you have had a Phoronix account since 2008.
I've been using Linux for 26 years, I just don't like creating accounts everywhere. While you don't have to write drivers as often as when I started using Linux, when there weren't drivers for nearly anything, it is still a common occurrence when you intentionally choose unsupported hardware.
I mean take for instance the CPU - a computer component without which nothing works. Are Intel and AMD CPUs properly supported under Linux? Well, you can use them for sure but what about monitoring? lm-sensors monitor like 5% of what HWiNFO64 provides.
So, sorry, Linux support on average just means a particular device basic features will work. That's it. That's a sad story really.
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Originally posted by birdie View PostI mean take for instance the CPU - a computer component without which nothing works. Are Intel and AMD CPUs properly supported under Linux? Well, you can use them for sure but what about monitoring? lm-sensors monitor like 5% of what HWiNFO64 provides.
HWiNFO64 is able to monitor so many different motherboards likely due the vendors directly providing the developer information on how to do it. I seriously doubt Martin, the guy that writes HWiNFO64, buys every board in existence to add support for it. And those same vendors refuse to provide any information to Linux developers.
Perhaps you really don't know what you are talking about in general.
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More like hardware vendors provide the info for the Windows drivers, which HWiNFO64 leverages. But yeah, point is that information is scarce in Linux for this type of stuff and often has to be reverse engineered.
We don't even have robust software based fan control in Linux even. The is fancontrol, but that's old, I doubt it gets much of any updates, and has several bugs. Last I checked there were a couple of solutions being worked on, but honestly I haven't bothered to look since these days most uefi provide adequate fan control. At least AMD has provided enough documentation on their video cards to be able to control their fans.
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Originally posted by calc View Post
You say 'CPU', the sensors of which are supported in the kernel directly, and then immediately conflate it with whatever pos motherboard you chose to put it in, whose additional sensors are often not supported.
HWiNFO64 is able to monitor so many different motherboards likely due the vendors directly providing the developer information on how to do it. I seriously doubt Martin, the guy that writes HWiNFO64, buys every board in existence to add support for it. And those same vendors refuse to provide any information to Linux developers.
Perhaps you really don't know what you are talking about in general.
And under Linux:
$ sensors
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Tctl: +34.0°C
Tdie: +34.0°C
Tccd1: +33.8°C
Unfortunately with that I have to blacklist you because I understand what I'm talking about and you, with your fanatical attitude, is frothing at your mouth and know so little I have no desire to argue.
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