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Re: 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

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Post by core-questions » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:01 AM UTC

6510 wrote: post #16

da_big_ghey wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You misspelled Archlinux.

which is the best linux distro?

Whatever one _you_ aren't using yet.

Re: 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

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Post by andyfleming » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:01 AM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #3

It's nice to have options on Windows 10 and a choice of GPU and driver vendors.

How many professionals need 144Hz to get work done?

Re: 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

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Post by core-questions » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:03 AM UTC

refulgentis wrote: post #14

fortran77 wrote: post #3

It's nice to have options on Windows 10 and a choice of GPU and driver vendors.

ChromeOS. And I'm not even kidding. Everything you loved about switching from XP to OS X, or Blackberry to iPhone, all over again. And arguably better *nix support than Mac.

What if I want my computer to not tell Google every single thing I am doing?

Re: 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

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Post by ActorNightly » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:03 AM UTC

Even before Big Sur, the output to external monitors on MPBs was buggy as hell. My 2019 one wakes up from sleep, and its a 50/50 chance on the external monitor output working, causing me to have to unplug and replug the cable to get it to output.

Re: 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

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Post by FireBeyond » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:04 AM UTC

ActorNightly wrote: post #24

Even before Big Sur, the output to external monitors on MPBs was buggy as hell. My 2019 one wakes up from sleep, and its a 50/50 chance on the external monitor output working, causing me to have to unplug and replug the cable to get it to output.

I do like macOS on a lot of levels (though I find myself "maximizing" windows a whole lot), but the external/multi monitor support has always been abysmal.

Why should many users have to buy SwitchResX to bludgeon the OS into "supporting" otherwise standard resolutions, too?

Re: 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

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Post by mfkp » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:04 AM UTC

acuozzo wrote: post #20

mfkp wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why you get Windows 10 Pro instead of Windows 10 Home.

It's a Windows 10 Pro installation.

Can you not schedule updates on Pro? Or change the option to not automatically reboot?

Re: 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

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Post by ActorNightly » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:04 AM UTC

acuozzo wrote: post #7

fortran77 wrote: post #3

It's nice to have options on Windows 10 and a choice of GPU and driver vendors.

My Windows 10 installation forcibly rebooted to install updates right in the middle of a 10+ hour overnight render.

Pretty easy to fully disable updates.

Re: 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

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Post by reitzensteinm » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:05 AM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #3

It's nice to have options on Windows 10 and a choice of GPU and driver vendors.

I don't like how locked down OS X is, but Windows is turning in to an absolute train wreck.

I would probably use a frozen in time Windows 7 indefinitely, but for the first time in my life, I'm seriously considering moving to desktop Linux.

Re: 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

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Post by ActorNightly » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:07 AM UTC

andyfleming wrote: post #22

fortran77 wrote: post #3

It's nice to have options on Windows 10 and a choice of GPU and driver vendors.

How many professionals need 144Hz to get work done?

The conversation is not about need.

Re: 4k 144Hz no longer available after upgrade to Big Sur

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Post by marcinzm » Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 1:07 AM UTC

acuozzo wrote: post #7

fortran77 wrote: post #3

It's nice to have options on Windows 10 and a choice of GPU and driver vendors.

My Windows 10 installation forcibly rebooted to install updates right in the middle of a 10+ hour overnight render.

I just leave Final Fantasy 14 running in the background perpetually which stops windows from sleeping or running updates although it probably is helping kill the planet slightly faster as a result.