Patch Tuesday update makes Windows PCs refuse to shut down
www.theregister.com
: Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug

“On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete.”

  • Deestan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 hours ago

    It is.

    And honestly, remembering the stuff I had to do to play the original Doom at a LAN party back in the day.

    • Buy a sound card (some PCs came with, mine didn’t)
    • Install the sound card drivers correctly
    • Edit the computer’s config.sys file to assure the operating system drivers were loaded in such an order as to allow enough of Bill Gates’ 640 kb RAM available to load a game
    • Borrow (!) a network card from my dad’s computer, and open up the PC to jam it in there
    • Install network drivers
    • Path the physical coaxial network cables through all PCs and terminate them correctly
    • Configure the game to know which direct memory address (bank 1) and hardware interrupt request id (5) it needed to talk to the sound card
    • Yes hello also find a smaller mouse driver and load it correctly because by now all the networking and audio stuff is making those 640kb tight

    We all did that back then!

    If someone was a “gamer” they were not afraid to do this because they either knew how or knew a friend who was happy to help.

    Compare that to what I do today that most gamers consider “mind-numbingly super nerd impossible bullshit lol linux sux”, running GNU GUIX:

    • Find a channel for the nvidia drivers. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
    • Find a channel for Steam. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
    • Oh no I had to add 2 more lines for nvidia by following clear documentation.

    O hey everything just works. Proton kicks in automatically.