Ultimately we have limited choices in the market, and we have to make compromises. I'm fine running an Intel chip (which doesn't even have SGX, as they don't ship SGX in non-server SKUs anymore), and don't run anything that uses SGX... not sure there's anything written for desktop Linux that I'd use that even tries to use it anyway.

In another post downthread you acknowledge that AMD has their own trusted execution engine (which they don't ship... but neither does Intel, at least in consumer hardware), so for some reason you seem to love AMD and hate Intel when they essentially do the same things.

You also list a bunch of bad stuff Intel has done -- and yes, agreed, they were bad -- but I'm sure AMD has done just as much similar bad stuff. And if not, I'm sure it's not because they're saints, but because they hadn't had the clout of a dominant-enough market position (like Intel has had) that would allow them to get away with things like that. I have no doubt they would have done similar things if they found themselves in similar circumstances. ::shrug::

Either way, this whole "Intel vs. AMD" thing is not really a hill I care do die on... much more important stuff going on in my life.