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Such an accusation isn't a good start if you want to have an actual discussion. Besides, I don't see anything in my comment that could be interpreted as trolling.

I worded this more strongly than I intended to. This was meant to come across more lightheartedly and joking than the opening to my original message. I apologize for this, sincerely.

Not on Linux. AMD drivers are part of the kernel and there's no additional bloated driver software like you see it under Windows.

Again, like I said on the line underneath that, while not perfect, GPUScreenRecorder exists for Linux and works well, despite being less fully featured. And although I didnt include it in the previous message, it supports Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs.

Here's the link to the project if you'd like to investigate it for yourself: https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/

Which just proves my point.

I'm not sure that it does given that I provided a pretty ridiculous hypothetical that still results in an 8 year period at minimum before reaching the warrantied write count. The drive could fail before then, or it could fail after, but the point was that it'll still likely exceed the recommended replacement period for a spinning HDD (3-5 years).

But I guess you all swap out your hardware every 2 years or so. That's cool for you rich people I guess but as a poor person I typically try to preserve and keep my hardware for as long as I can.

Please dont make this out like I'm rich and can afford to just throw away hardware. If one of my drives fails, I can't afford to replace it right now. But also, I havent needed to replace an SSD that wasnt faulty due to a manufacturing issue, either in my own system or in any of the hundreds or possibly thousands of computers at this point that I have installed SSDs in for work. The shit SSDs will die within a year or two, but thats usually due to having faulty controllers and is unavoidable, and the faulty SSDs (like the first batch of Samsung 870s) are, well, faulty.

I think the major fallacy for you guys here is that you just look at this one dataset, as if that's the only thing that would go on in your system.

I'm not sure what "one dataset" I provided but I'm more than happy to provide more :)

I'm not going to use unnecessary crap that wears down my very expensive hardware for gimmicky features that I maybe could use once every 5 years or so, assuming I wouldn't just forget about it anyway.

Okay then, like I said at the end of the last post, just ~~turn the feature off~~ dont turn the feature on when it's released. My point isn't that you personally need to use this feature, but rather that your SSD lifespan fears are outdated. You're more than welcome to use your hardware however you like, I was never intending to change that :)

Edit: for clarity and inclusion of a correction pointed out by @[email protected]