nah. it's not possible to replace a bad chip/platter and resliver, and RAID explicitly refers to the combination of multiple discrete hard drive units and not the internal configuration of a singular hard drive. You start going down that road and you'll end up concluding that a hot dog is a taco.
What the fuck are you going on about? Screensavers? Are you even using Linux?
Absolute nonsense. X11 on Windows works so badly it's like you're using Wayland or something.
It's Linux Mint that came preinstalled. Instead of switching to Windows immediately I decided to try it and it's... interesting.
probably something wrong with the screensaver program. I doubt it's some kind of actual graphics issue. idk how many people are using screensavers like they used to anymore, so there may not be a ton of effort going into maintaining or making sure everything works properly.
Besides all the other obvious stuff everyone has called out (licensing, ads in the start menu, tracking in the fucking calculator and notepad apps, etc.) you can't run a tiling window manager inside Windows. No i3/xmonad/hyprland unless you use an Xserver and you're going to need to run it in a window (as opposed to rootless) for a tiling window manager to make sense. I don't know if there's anything better today, but the last time I tried tiling in Windows was with Win7 + autohotkey scripts. It sorta worked, but wasn't great.
I've run RAID0 as my root device for over 10 years. It started precisely because I got an MSI laptop that had two SATA/m.2 drives setup in Intel Rapid Store RAID for Windows. You can handle rapid store in Linux (it's an Intel software RAID essentially) and I thought about it briefly to dual boot, but I ended up just using mdraid and dropping Windows entirely. Software RAID0 was significantly faster back then on SATA.
ZFS is actually a small performance loss, since it was optimised around spinning rust. On spinning rust you have a read head that needs to seek back and forth to find the correct track. ZFS will cluster a bunch of operations together and sort them by physical location so that each seek can be made shorter. That’s great for throughput on HDDs, but pointless on SSDs, which obviously don’t have read heads. M.2 SSDs prefer a dumb file system that just dumps all the instructions at once, so ZFS’ meticulous sorting just adds a few nanoseconds of latency to each operation. Not something you’re likely to notice outside a testing environment, especially since ZFS has the ARC cache and will basically report writes as finished instantly so long as your system has enough RAM to spare, but it does exist and simpler file systems like ext4 won’t have it.
If that's the case then it's likely a bug in mate-screensaver and you can probably check the GitHub if there's a known issue or file a bug report, or switch to xscreensaver https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=112849
Also the main reason for staying on Windows. Some shit you can only do/run on Windows, or moving to Linux would mean compromising on ease of use and utility depending on your personal software suite you rely on, how good are the alternatives or if there are any at all. An operating system is only good if it can run the software you need to do your work well, and forcing yourself to use Linux if you can't be as efficient in it as you are in Windows just to not use Windows is counter-intuitive.
If someone still pays for Windows now that Microsoft Activation Scripts exist, AND now that Massgrave came out with TSforge which lets you activate Windows and Office permanently and completely offline, they're a bona-fide certified retard, bottom feeders, the lowest of the low in the hierarchy, the most docile nigger cattle that has been ever conceived. Unless you end up having a state-mandated software gestapo busting down your door, no one gives a fuck about whether or not your home PC runs a legit copy or not.
At the same time, how many people use tiling managers under Linux? How many people rice their shit to run dwm/i3/hyprland and how many just don't care and go with a conventional DE like Cinnamon or KDE? Most people won't give a solitary fuck about being able to use a TWM and they'll have other, more important reasons to choose one over the other, like Windows being more and more annoying to deal with, or having an older PC and not wanting to circumvent Windows 11's requirements.
So Linux is actually easier to install than Windows now, too. Well done, Microsoft.
Ive literally had Linux boot from a SSD in a PCIe slot on an incompatible motherboard by moving /boot to a micro usb dongle. Linux is just more adaptable.
Imo the niggerfied Linux distros have been easier to install the windows for a while now.
It's not even a "bypass", Microsoft just purposefully obfuscated it to make sure most people wouldn't bother, give in and use the MS account. When you installed Windows, you always "joined a domain", ever since NT 3.1, since what we have today originates from that, a network enabled OS for businesses. Local accounts from XP onwards were NT domain accounts, and if you install Windows 7 and use a password, it'll ask for you to do the same three recovery questions.
HDDs can't access multiple platters simultaneously though. SSDs can access multiple cells simultaneously. HDDs do not get faster as they get larger, apart from side effects of increasing data density at a given RPM. SSDs do get faster as they get larger / have more cells they can access simultaneously. There was a scandal when Apple changed the flash chips in new macbooks to a higher density version which meant the lowest tier sku only used a single chip instead of two... Making it slower.
Hard drives have a single arm with multiple fingers that all seek to the same point on each of their respective platters. They all record one part of the same data block at once and read parts of the same data block at once.
Only you and your poor people hard drives.
