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You're the one publicising him and funnelling traffic to his blog, but, hey, ho.

> What alternative reality do you live in? A short unsubstantiated single sentence-fragment from an unnamed, untitled support employee on a random fucking forum is not a "precise s…

I'm not the first person to accuse Matthew of this I'm afraid, and use exactly those words. If you're going to censor comments then feel free to do so for the nonsensical articles …

Adverb..... Bloody auto-complete.....

> Literally nothing about this sentence is correct. Sorry, but literally everything about it is correct. What a great adjective. > Support reps know nothing, and nameless support r…

It would be awesome if you knew what you were talking about ;-).

There is no way that using a fake RAID set of drivers and a completely incompatible and more complex on-disk RAID format is going to increase performance in any way. There's a reas…

The statement is there in black and white and it is as crystal clear and unequivocal as you can get.

> Hardware that works better = better sales, more money, less support cost? Utter bullshit. The hardware doesn't work better - it works in the same way that AHCI systems with a sin…

> even Microsoft don't ship a driver that supports it. .....and why do you suppose that is? Fake RAID drivers and hardware are shit that's why. It's an option that is hardly used, …

> Or, alternatively, they removed a firmware setting that makes their hardware work less well Why would they remove it? Removing it requires effort, which hardware companies are lo…

Why not? They're always generally the most truthful.

Garrett has a history of stonewalling and misdirection on these matters. It was the same with UEFI, Secure Boot and when he and Red Hat tried to casually shoehorn support for PE bi…

> The idea that a single customer support representative would know something When you work at a company you have a funny way of finding things out, and you don't say things on for…

It would run Windows though ;-).

Yay, so supporting completely non-standard and inevitably more buggy drivers is the correct option?

Because providing that option doesn't give anyone sub-par drivers? Also, the power saving stuff is bollocks. I never thought I would see the day when anyone would recommend using a…

Every other chipset and motherboard in existence has had that option and it hasn't affected anyone adversely. There is no less of two evils. There isn't any evils here.

It's not Secure Boot - yet. But this is what you're going to find - obsolescence depending on built-in hardware driver support. Not only are you not getting Linux installed on here…

Correction, they only support on version of that OS - which is the point here. To claim you're going to get better battery life with a fake RAID driver is also one of the funniest …

Seeing a manufacturer use fake RAID, by default, on a single disk system, then unfathomably hardwiring this into the firmware so it can't be changed, then have a Lenovo rep actuall…

So get a vanilla install disk from Microsoft's site, install and reuse the license.

Which won't work.

That should be you might be able to get an OS they're not keen on booted , of course.

....and indeed, there are only Windows 10 drivers. http://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/products/Laptops-and-netbook... WTF is that URL by the way? Many Skylake systems are like this to…