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

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Post by acuozzo »

binarycrusader wrote: post #42
acuozzo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Personally, I'd prefer the system repeatedly prompt the user to restart to apply security updates (of which almost every update contains these days) instead of automatic restarts. It does try to apply those during what it believes are not "active hours", but it is not a perfect system. Until that happens, consider setting your active hours manually in the Update & Security -> Windows Update settings panel. The update…

Unfortunately, I often have renders that take way longer than 24 hours, so setting active hours wouldn't help much.

With that being said, I now have the box in question completely disconnected from the internet and I task it remotely via serial.

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

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Post by antjanus »

Bud wrote: post #47
antjanus wrote: post #40

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I just got my first macbook in years. I legit thought something was wrong with my monitor (even though it works perfectly with my Windows desktop and my Linux laptop). So it's Big Sur??

Could just as easily be your Thunderbolt dock (if you are using one) or adapter. Most docks and a lot of the adapters out there completely suck. CalDigit is perfect, though. No issues with my 2 external monitors on my 16" MBP since I got a CalDigit dock. Now I plug in one cable, and everything is kosher: 96W power, GigE, external speakers, 2 external hard drive arrays, and 2 monitors. Was perfect under Catalina, and…

Yeah, that's the thing. I used my dock with both my desktop and laptop for months and it worked fine. _Still_ works fine. It's a 100W. If I plug it into my Macbook, it'll run the external display for like 10 seconds and shut it off. It's unfortunate :(

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

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Post by acuozzo »

ActorNightly wrote: post #27
acuozzo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I did so via the registry, but my changes were reverted after updating.

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

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Post by andyfleming »

d3nj4l wrote: post #37
fortran77 wrote: post #3

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

The parent comment was edited. That might explain some of the responses feeling "out of sync", so to speak.

Yeah used to say something like "That's why professionals use Windows 10".

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

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Post by teach »

6510 wrote: post #16
da_big_ghey wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You misspelled Archlinux.

which is the best linux distro?

This is like asking "Which is the best automobile?"

It depends a lot on personal preference and what you want to use it for. (Families with a lot of kids need something like a minivan, some people need a truck with huge towing capacity, some people want good gas mileage, etc.)

My personal opinions:

* Ubuntu - when you want something well-supported and everything usually just works out of the box

* Pop!_OS - same as above but gaming is more important to you

* Debian - when you want stability rather than the latest features

* Arch - when you want control over every aspect of your system

* CentOS - when you want a rock-solid server platform (though this has changed very recently)

And there are dozens of other flavors of Linux with different strengths and weaknesses and different levels of support.

So it depends on your goals!

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

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Post by justinclift »

bitbuilder wrote: post #44
acuozzo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I can't believe this is a thing. I recently switched back to Windows after deciding I wanted to play around with VR development (and honestly, get back into gaming) and was horrified to see a notice telling me my computer was going to reboot itself in one minute, with no way to abort. I was right in the middle of something, and my first instinct was to Google how to stop the damn reboot. Of course, my computer was al…

Wait until you find out it's updating your motherboard BIOS/firmware (it tells you when it starts doing it!), and there's no way to stop it.

Not super great when the whole point of not upgrading to the latest BIOS was because it introduced a critical bug.

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

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Post by ankushnarula »

arch-ninja wrote: post #38
fortran77 wrote: post #3

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

Arch Linux representing: my OS can turn a directory into a container w/ arbitrary programs loaded that is split from my main OS. My backup routine moves 50gb to an external hdd in 30 seconds because I use rsync with hard links against previous deltas. I have ~75 lines of python that poll my downloads directory and unzip, untar, and un-rar anything I download. Another ~75 lines moves downloads into a quarantine zone a…

Sounds great - do you have a blog or repo describing your setup?

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

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Post by onecommentman »

acuozzo wrote: post #46
arch-ninja wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arch Linux representing: my OS can turn a directory into a container w/ arbitrary programs loaded that is split from my main OS. My backup routine moves 50gb to an external hdd in 30 seconds because I use rsync with hard links against previous deltas. I have ~75 lines of python that poll my downloads directory and unzip, untar, and un-rar anything I download. Another ~75 lines moves downloads into a quarantine zone a…

I work professionally as a programmer, so I agree with your overall sentiment, but I'm also very involved in film & video restoration outside of work and can state with confidence that GNU/Linux is a second-class citizen in this space. The few companies in this business that target GNU/Linux produce software that pales in comparison to offerings on Windows & Mac OS X. For instance, PFClean by The Pixel Farm barely ho…

Is that a temporary issue (GNU/Linux will catch up soon with new upgrades) or a permanent lag for GNU/Linux? And is there a case for “all the tools are good enough really”? Total OS agnostic here. In the early days, performance was really a “can do/no can do” sort of thing for a big chunk of the problem space. Is that still true today?

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

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Post by wayneftw »

reitzensteinm wrote: post #28
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.

I recommend Manjaro with the default desktop environment XFCE.

It's a rolling release, so you always get up-to-date software. Installing software is easier than any other OS (just use the Add/Remove app not the command line). I have tried desktop Linux for years and I never really got an effortlessly stable and worry free system until I used that distro.

I've been running it on one laptop and two desktop workstations now for over two years. It never interrupts me, I update when I want to and it's based on Arch so it's got excellent documentation.

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

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Post by reitzensteinm »

wayneftw wrote: post #59
reitzensteinm wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I recommend Manjaro with the default desktop environment XFCE. It's a rolling release, so you always get up-to-date software. Installing software is easier than any other OS (just use the Add/Remove app not the command line). I have tried desktop Linux for years and I never really got an effortlessly stable and worry free system until I used that distro. I've been running it on one laptop and two desktop workstations…

Thanks for the recommendation!
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