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

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

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Post by lostmsu »

justinclift wrote: post #56
bitbuilder wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This only happens on Microsoft hardware though (or it is not Windows doing the update).

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

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Post by lostmsu »

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…

Huh?

There's sandbox in Windows now, and before that there was SanboxIE which I never needed though.

The backup on Windows is transparent and keeps all versions of the files. You just need to specify destination when it starts nagging.

Your Python script has nothing to do with OS. I have a few C# scripts for DynDNS and other stuff.

Windows takes about 20GB, and lives with full Visual Studio on a 60GB drive with about 15GB left.

Sounds like you haven't really used Windows after 7.

And yeah, not only I can remote in under a second with either SSH or RDP, I can do gaming easily, train my TensorFlow models, and use multiple monitors with a tiling WM.

Oh, and my laptops sleep well.

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

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Post by p1necone »

teach wrote: post #55
6510 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

Is Pop!_OS better than Ubuntu for gaming? Given that the officially supported distro for Steam is whatever the latest LTS version of Ubuntu is I would assume that would be the way to go.

(FWIW I'm using Arch and have found Steam support to be pretty seamless, apart from needing to install PulseAudio as bare ALSA had issues.)

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

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Post by apta »

antjanus wrote: post #40
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 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??

Are you using and HDMI cable? I found it solved the issue when I switched to DisplayPort.

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

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Post by bombcar »

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've been using https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer and it helps with some of it - one monitor would wake from sleep sideways

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

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Post by tmikaeld »

CapriciousCptl wrote: post #50

Unfortunately I don’t think apples had a smooth new OS Release it in some time. This issue was obviously noted with the Big Sur beta roll out where that may be forgiven more readily. But now it’s in the public release. Knowing nothing about the matter I guess I could see how new OS releases break things and how it’s sometimes hard to triage bug reports in a giant organization like Apple. In desktop Linux these sorts…

There were a few system breaking bugs in Big Sur beta and also a security breaking one that circumvent the firewall/sandbox for apps.

It looks like 11.1 that's in RC now, address the known bugs, I'm actually impressed at how fast they fix the bugs.

If Apple now focus on stability, like Microsoft is doing with Windows 10, I think MacOS can grow significantly, especially together with their new custom silicon.

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

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Post by m463 »

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…

You need to embrace and containerize more paragraphs of the navy seal copy-pasta to represent arch linux effectively. ;)

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

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Post by jakopo87 »

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.

This should prevent automatic reboots: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/aavocr/after_6_mo...

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

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Post by oses »

lostmsu wrote: post #61
justinclift wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This only happens on Microsoft hardware though (or it is not Windows doing the update).

UEFI updates can now be delivered by vendors thru Windows Update now : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/br...
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