Already switched to CachyOS, haven’t booted to Windows 10 since then. Desktop gaming was my only use, everything else happens on an M1 Air.
It’s a delight, no pop ups, sell ups, Cortana and whatever else MS kept throwing at you.
Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
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Yes and the world has 6 billion researchers too because we Google things. It's a lot more useful though when words have meaning and we take them seriously, otherwise nothing really makes sense.
I think you would agree that playing games and being a researcher are very different levels of depth. If you have decent public transit in your area, you'll definitely see at least one person on your commute playing some kind of candy crush-like phone game every single day. Yes, that's a "gamer." Humans by their very nature use games to pass time and stimulate their mind and body, it's one of the most universal thing…
I gotta be honest, I personally don't think someone playing wordle is a gamer by the common usage of the word.
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No I didn't. I intentionally only wrote just OLED because it doesn't have anything to do with HDR not it requires any special support and it doesn't make any fucking sense why they included it along with HDR.
Probably because HDR on the vast majority of non-OLED monitors is useless. You really need a monitor with great contrast and a good HDR implementation for it to be of any benefit.
This is exactly why I mentioned it. In practice, mini-LED monitors or TVs are just not really making a whole lot of sense for HDR by comparison.
I also focused on OLED because I think it’s a very common way for consumers to have access to HDR, whether it be via a TV or gaming laptop.
Outside of Apple, Mini-LED monitors are a rarity in laptops. Usually manufacturers choose OLED for more mid to premium laptops. Apple is fussy about color accuracy, the other manufacturers want a display that pops on a showroom floor and/or they’re targeting a gaming market that appreciates the latency, motion performance, and contrast benefits OLED brings to gaming.
Re: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you would agree that playing games and being a researcher are very different levels of depth. If you have decent public transit in your area, you'll definitely see at least one person on your commute playing some kind of candy crush-like phone game every single day. Yes, that's a "gamer." Humans by their very nature use games to pass time and stimulate their mind and body, it's one of the most universal thing…
I gotta be honest, I personally don't think someone playing wordle is a gamer by the common usage of the word.
I can see where you’re coming from. My side of the argument is basically “money doesn’t discriminate.”
The $50 I spent on Baldur’s Gate 3 is the same $50 as a year’s subscription to Wordle (and the other NYT games).
“Gamer” may refer to a stereotype but there is fundamentally no difference in concept.
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I think there are a lot of things that are potentially problematic where we depend on having a functioning society with real legal protections and due process. Nobody can come in my house without a judicial warrant. And, hopefully, someday there are better privacy laws in the US that mean that Microsoft must handle its collected data more responsibly. If your society has succumbed to serious oppression, does evidence…
Clearly you haven’t been reading the news? This is just ignorant.
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A lot of these no value, didn't ask, pro-linux comments are probably leftovers from linux software maintainer groups and it's passive aggressive culture. And we all know what kind of a role model that person used to be. They've been in that cesspool for too long to recognize how to interact with people. Condolences on your hardware problem btw. Give the windows 10 iot version a shot - it's a fairly quick install anyw…
I'm not from any of the above, just someone who kept trying Linux, and it didn't feel as ready or good as implied by others, but for the last half decade maybe even full decade, the story for Linux gaming and daily use has been superior.
perfect example
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Does that support modern gaming?
No, it's for IoT. Don't install an IoT Operating System if you are planning to do normal Operating System things.
The marketing works for you. This is the precise reason, they name it like this.
The IoT means it is for people who can't afford having the OS vendor make the OS do things against their will. Which should be everyone, but sadly isn't.
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"modern gaming" being a euphemism for "more proprietary software that has chained us to even worse proprietary software for decades".
It's actually a question relating to what some people want to do with their computer. Most people don't run an OS because of some moral objection to other OS's but because it lets them do what they want with their device.
The "moral objection" here being, that it doesn't let people do whatever they want with their device.