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> price-per-performance unit standpoint You know... If the thing doesn't work, price doesn't matter that much. I prefer something more reliable that's not as fast (I've been using Intel GPUs for many years now)
So that being said, I may not be able to use the HDMI port, but CUDA works great.
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So, as we move forward, all these desktops will end up having stable and mature support. Drivers are often lacking for bleeding edge components, but stuff that was released 3 or 5 years ago tends to be very solid unless it's something obscure nobody has ever seen.
Microsoft doesn't want you to have stable and mature support. They want you using the latest everything and paying for it each month. Microsoft pushed hard to force users to upgrade to Windows 10.[1] Even today, many enterprise users refuse to convert. They don't want Microsoft's new rent, rather than own, software. They don't want Microsoft looking into their machines. They don't want to store corporate data in Micr…
And your 3 year old hardware probably will work a lot better than it does under Windows ;-)
I've been using Ubuntu LTS versions since 12.04 on Thinkpad T and X series laptops and I'm a very happy camper - out of the box Ubuntu doesn't suck for me, it "just works". I moved from OS X on latest Apple laptops to make my daily job (interaction design + web development) more productive (e.g. workstation running the same OS as servers, tooling etc) but now it's my preferred OS + hardware combo from a end-user pers…
What file explorer do you use? Nautilus pisses me off. I'm 100x more productive with Explorer on Windows. Some features I'd like: - Being able to open the context menu for the current folder, even if there are enough files to fill the view, without going up a level - Being able to jump to files/folders in the current directory by name without opening search results - Being able to add functionality to the context men…
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Microsoft doesn't want you to have stable and mature support. They want you using the latest everything and paying for it each month. Microsoft pushed hard to force users to upgrade to Windows 10.[1] Even today, many enterprise users refuse to convert. They don't want Microsoft's new rent, rather than own, software. They don't want Microsoft looking into their machines. They don't want to store corporate data in Micr…
Come to Linux. We have cake. And your 3 year old hardware probably will work a lot better than it does under Windows ;-)
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> Placing restrictions on user accounts is only useful for protecting the system from users, which is a valid concern on a network with shared resources but worse than useless on a personal desktop. True for home users; not necessarily true for corporate users-- where computers are IT-managed (i.e. "don't let end users fuck them up") and may be shared (which is highly situational-- the degree to which computers are s…
A few things, since I work in IT: we don't give a damn about your workstation. It's a fungible resource. Reimaging is easy and relatively quick. We even let you have local admin because who cares. Users are not prone to playing around with settings they don't understand, in my experience. If someone was constantly needing their workstation reimaged we'd probably just fire them for being incompetent. Ideally, the OS w…
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Apple invalidates their own hardware, usually about 7-8 years after production. I’m sure Microsoft will too.
Does it mean that the developers of GNU/Linux must provide compatiblity with every piece of hardware in the world?
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You got downvoted, but I mostly agree. I think mandatory strict selinux rules, containerize all user programs, or similar approaches are now more important for the threat vectors we face today on the desktop. I just discovered Apple's feature of requiring you to press a couple keys to authenticate a new keyboard. Doing that on GNU/Linux would be very hard.
That dialog (the "your keyboard cannot be identified" dialog) is about layout detection, not "authentication". IIRC, it's also skippable (but I haven't seen it in a long time; I've mostly switched over to Apple keyboards and they don't trigger that dialog).
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The freedom to not have to jump through ridiculous hoops like compiling from source just to use an application the distro didn't deem worthy of inclusion in their repo.
> to use an application the distro didn't deem worthy of inclusion in their repo. How did you come to this conclusion? Did you request the package be included in the distro you use? If so, and it wasn't provided, provide the bug report/feature request link ...