First, I am man enough to admit that I am wrong and I want to apologize
to the people defending Linux. The people behind the operating system do sincerely care more about their users than the companies over on the
Windows side.

For those unaware, AMD has an issue with fTPM stuttering. If it is
enabled, your desktop will periodically get sluggish performance (for
about 3-4 seconds), an unresponsive mouse and keyboard, and corrupted
audio. For an example, check out this short video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYnRL-x6DVI>. You can't predict when it
will happen, it just does.

The quick solution is to disable fTPM. A lot of motherboards allow you
to do it. Another solution is to install a hardware TPM. AMD has also acknowledged the problem and provided a BIOS update manufacturers can
make available to their users. If you have an affected desktop, the
problem is therefore solved.

Given that Windows and a lot of online multiplayer games now require
TPM, disabling it entirely is a bad idea. You must therefore update or
install a hardware TPM.

For laptops however, you're at the mercy of the manufacturer. I have an
ASUS and the company has acknowledged the problem. Nevertheless, they
will do absolutely nothing about it. You can't disable fTPM in the BIOS,
there is also no update. You can screw around with Windows and disable
the TPM by rename TPM.sys, but Microsoft will likely reinstall it during
the next update. Therefore, you have no choice but to live with it. If
you edit videos or sound for a living, you're likely to often restart
your work because this can happen randomly during the encoding process.

Meanwhile, on the Linux side, Linus Torvalds simply decided that the
problem, hwrng, might as well be disabled since it is useless anyway. As
of kernel 6.2, Linux will detect whether you have a problematic BIOS and disable the feature. In other words, as long as you're using Linux, you
won't experience this garbage.

If you read what people online have to say, they are swearing not to buy
AMD again. Meanwhile, they are disregarding that Intel has its own
issues with the 13th and 14th generation processors crashing if used at
their rated speeds <https://www.theverge.com/24216305/intel-13th-14th-gen-raptor-lake-cpu-crash-news-updates-patches-fixes-motherboards>.
In other words, even the alternative is garbage. Additionally, Windows
_still_ requires TPM and such issues might surface again with Intel for
all that we know.

I've made my decision and gone ahead with Fedora. I might face problems
along the way, but I think that I have finally found the motivation to disregard or work through them.

My apologies to all, once more.
--
Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
Telegram: @AndrzejMatuch

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