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> this is far from a professional environment, if it was then ... there wouldn't be a 30 year old computer in that spot I would actually argue that professional environments are *more* likely to have old legacy hardware, in fact it's probably why people are making the (incorrect) assumption that you're professional.

> You said you want the best. They said "best value" not "best performance". I do agree with you.

> I assume you're looking at it from the perspective of a consumer. I was looking at it from the perspective of "an open source youtube". Nebula's not open source, is it?

> We really do need an open source youtube, made for the people by the people and run by the people. Well, that's what [PeerTube](https://joinpeertube.org/) is, right?

That's exactly what [peertube](https://joinpeertube.org/) is.

You also need to pin the Mozilla deb, otherwise it'll get replaced with a snap on an upgrade since 3rd-party repositories are automatically disabled during an upgrade/

From what I've heard as long you have ethernet for at least one side it should be fine. If you can do ethernet for both it should work really well.

Wireless is fine as long as it's not bluetooth-only.

To some degree, answering your question requires a crystal ball. It's kind of impossible to know where prices will be in six months. If you feel like you're going to heavily regret it if prices go up, it might be best to start looking now. With my best guess, I'd say if you're not running into performance issues right now, I'd say waiting is likely best, it's *probably* the case that prices will go down.

I think this applies on the application level, multiple audio streams from the same application will still have the same name. It fixes the issue that electron applications were indistinguishable from each other.

The issue with Battlefield 6 is the Javelin anticheat which doesn't support Linux (and as such will block it). So it's up to EA. There was a job posting about potentially supporting Linux, but until that work is actually done, BF6 will not be able to run. You could always dual-boot if you wanted, but I get that it's a bit more annoying with the anticheat, since you'd have to get secure boot working with both OSes (or disable/enable it frequently).

A new Ubuntu LTS comes out every two years, and is supported for five years, and tend not to get many updates (especially to the DE) during that entire period. The non-LTS Ubuntu releases come out every 6 months, that may be what you're thinking of.

who are updating to the latest kernel...

> Copyleft and similar concepts wouldn't even be needed if it wasn't for the decision to make software copyrightable when USA Congress reclassified programs as "Literary Works" in 1980. I don't think that's entirely true. You can already put your code in the public domain, but large corporations could just take it, modify it, and release binaries with no source code, which is why open source organizations utilize copy-left. Removing software copyright is functionally equivalent to forcing open source organizations to put their software into public domain, allowing corporations to use it without giving anything back. Sure, binaries could be legally redistributed, but they already are; all that would change is the legality. Removing copyright would be a disaster for open source collaboration; making binaries legally redistributable is not worth the diminishing of this collaboration.

Yeah, I messed up when buying my latest PSU so the cables go out the side of my case. (I'd been having PSU problems for a while so I didn't want to change anything after I got it working)

6.3% for users with Steam set to English, too.

About 30% of Linux users are Steam Deck users.

> Yeah that’s true but 99% of people use windows so I didn’t really mention it While I don't disagree with your overall point, 99% is probably too high. Even if you exclude Steam Decks, around 4% of English-language* Steam users use Linux ([Almost 6% if you include Steam Decks](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#engsplitanchor)). Given that this sub generally caters to more technically inclined users, I wouldn't be surprised if that percentage was even higher here. *Steam users who have their interface set to use English.

> Yeah that’s true but 99% of people use windows so I didn’t really mention it While I don't disagree with your overall point, 99% is probably too high. [Over 5% of English-language* Steam users use Linux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#engsplitanchor). Given that this sub generally caters to more technically inclined users, I wouldn't be surprised if that percentage was even higher here. *Steam users who have their interface set to use English.

Yeah at that size a curved monitor is very useful. I have a curved 32" and I definitely appreciate the curve.

Operating profit is also up, to $15.5 million (from 11.2m).

At first I read that as "there are no shortcuts to misery" and was thinking "there are tons of shortcuts to misery, I've found many of them".

> I dont think wayland allows you to enable tearing Only for fullscreen applications, so yeah, wouldn't help you much. > I'd far prefer smooth but teary window movement and drawing compared to choppy but fully drawn Yeah I could see having that opinion, but it's definitely the opposite for me.

I guess that's a difference, tearing makes me very nauseous. When I was on weaker hardware, all the tearing in X11 meant I couldn't watch videos for very long.

Thanks to this post, I just discovered my laptop has a privacy slider. Neat!

Is it just me or is this basically how XFCE looks today?

At 200% scaling, you'd get the same screen real estate as 1080p at 100%.

> Roughly the same DPI as 24" 1080p 32" 1440p has exactly the same DPI as 24" 1080p, so 27" 1440p is considerably higher DPI.

> Running a completely swapless system removes the safety net if RAM usage spikes unexpectedly. What does "unexpectedly" mean in this context? Is there some way for the system to "expect" RAM spikes?

In addition to what the other commenter said, that could just be for docked mode, so you could use an external HDR display.

For my grandmother (80s), we ended up going with a Chromebook, which worked about as well it could have. Are there programs your parents use without a web equivalent?

The page just loaded essentially instantly for me, comments and all, so it's probably not something universal. I have no idea how Gnome does their hosting, so I can't really speculate further.

You could add them to Steam as a non-Steam game.

AMD can probably make more money pumping out 9800X3D's, tho.

> Even though 32" at 1440p is about the same sharpness as 24" fullhd, it's still a "better" choice since more resolution means more details you can fit on the screen. You will also probably be sitting further away from a 32", so the pixels will look smaller.

Shooting yourself in the foot is still a strategy.

Yes.

It looks like they intend many changes to make it back into Weston, at least.

To add on, Unreal and Unity already use SDL for input, and Godot essentially maintains a fork.

Gaming on Linux is very doable these days (with a few multiplayer exceptions), but yeah Adobe is definitely Windows only.

KDE has telemetry (it's under "user feedback" in system settings). But it's opt-in of course, and I just discovered I had it off, oops.

Wouldn't that just kill the game I was trying to launch since that's the process using the most RAM?

No, I've had issues with both Victoria 3 and Trackmania. The issue I think is that both very quickly use a bunch of RAM (10GB+) on launch and the OOM killer can't keep up.

> On the other hand that stupid Firefox in the background with a bazillion tabs may be swapped out I feel personally called out. I had to enable swap for precisely this reason.

> below 32 GB RAM, Swap is almost always a benefit for you. I have 32 GB RAM and swap is extremely necessary for me, the OOM killer couldn't keep up when I launched certain games.

Hm, not seeing Google Cloud Run Functions. I believe it takes Google Cloud Functions and deploys them to Google Cloud Run. Not sure where it fits in or whether I'll be able to stay sane in the face of Google's naming schemes.

IIRC the second cache is now rumored to be next-gen, not current gen.

Honestly it was whole host of things, I made a fairly slow semi-unintentional changeover from probably 2014-2017. I wasn't really trying to full switch, just dual-boot, but I just had less and less reason to use Windows until I hadn't used it in half a year and wanted to reclaim the space. 1. Automatic updates. I was at a decent-sized chess tournament that got delayed a couple hours because the Tournament Director's laptop decided to restart and install updates before the morning pairings had been made. Having that happen with some kind of deadline sounded nightmarish. 2. Paradox games launched faster, I was a modder, and had an HDD at the time. EU4 took 5 minutes to launch on Windows, 1.5 minutes on Linux, and modding required a lot of game launching. This is what had me solidly dual-booting, no way I was waiting all that extra time if I could help it. 3. Drivers. At the time my main controller was a wireless Xbox 360 controller with a knockoff wireless usb adapter. On Linux it was plug and play. Windows wouldn't detect it properly so you'd have to set it manually (I think the default *wired* 360 driver worked), but it was finicky. Getting the adapter working in Windows 7 was annoying, getting it working in Windows 8.1 was a huge pain, and I couldn't get it to work consistently in Windows 10. 4. I had a weird RAM or driver issue that only showed up in Windows 7. Never really figured it out, but that got me "upgrade" to 10, which caused other issues. 5. This might sound dumb, but I couldn't figure out how to get the clock to stay set to the right time in I think Windows 10. Every time I rebooted it would be off until I went into the time setting and unchecked and rechecked the time syncing. IIRC I even tried some registry stuff but couldn't get it working. Just a pain. 6. Alt-tabbing. Alt-tabbing on Windows generally seemed to cause me issues, and took forever, in part because I had a really weak system and so played on really low resolutions, meaning an alt-tab would require a resolution change. Linux at the time gave me no such issues when alt-tabbing except I think with one very old VN (*Clannad*). There's probably some more things I'm forgetting, but it really was a whole host of somewhat minor issues.

They're laying people off in the gaming division, which according to the article took a 69% dip.

Yeah, I'm trying to hold out with my 5800X3D until AM6/DDR6, but it's difficult... 32%+ less chugging in late-game Victoria 3...