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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 NamTaf »

acuozzo wrote: post #51
binarycrusader wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Update & security options can pause updates for 35 days at a time.

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

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Post by arch-ninja »

ankushnarula wrote: post #57
arch-ninja wrote: post #38

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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?

https://github.com/Jeffrey-P-McAteer/azure_os - not polished at all, just what I use to throw away + re-format my laptop when I lose track of the files on it.

EDIT: I am pretty damn proud of it though, nearly every week I'm finding some button I can "not have to click anymore" and packages that support that get recorded in the azure-os build script.

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

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Post by acuozzo »

onecommentman wrote: post #58
acuozzo wrote: post #46

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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?

I'd like to imagine that it's a temporary issue, but the problem is self-perpetuating. Film Restoration houses buy souped-up Windows & Mac OS X boxes and hire workers trained to use specific software which targets only those OSes. It would be very hard to make a good business argument to move to GNU/Linux at present which, unfortunately, disincentivizes having GNU/Linux as a target.

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

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Post by ehutch79 »

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.

What exactly are you doing that macOS being locked down is a problem? Despite the fact you can turn things like SIP off if you need to?

I ask because most of the time the answers are vague or sketchy. There are legit answers. However, usually it's along the lines of installing a game they torrented that's trying to load keylogger.kext and failing. or 'I just don't like it, so it shouldn't exist'

Those lock down parts are stopping normal people, who arn't well versed in say... not installing things from links sent from root@printer.cpa-lawyer.br claiming to be their companies ceo.

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

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Post by charleslmunger »

ehutch79 wrote: post #75
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.

What exactly are you doing that macOS being locked down is a problem? Despite the fact you can turn things like SIP off if you need to? I ask because most of the time the answers are vague or sketchy. There are legit answers. However, usually it's along the lines of installing a game they torrented that's trying to load keylogger.kext and failing. or 'I just don't like it, so it shouldn't exist' Those lock down parts…

Not the op, but I was shocked to see how much effort was required to disable mouse acceleration on a mac. Dragging the slider to 0 doesn't do it. Editing the plist doesn't do it. You need to install some custom mouse driver with kernel extensions to have 1:1 mouse movement.

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

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Post by FireBeyond »

tmikaeld wrote: post #67
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.

11.1 was released - and at least for this issue, which has been filed with Radar since early betas, nothing has changed.

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

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Post by Tsiklon »

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…

Anecdotally, I use a Caldigit - but I get frequent AMD GPU driver kernel panics when I plug my laptops in, I see it on two separate 16" machines (work and personal). I suspect that it's the monitors at fault. Less common but no less annoying is when the machine doesn't pick up one of the two panels, forcing me to replug the laptop or panels in the dock (invariably increasing the likelihood of a panic...)

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

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Post by fortran77 »

lostmsu wrote: post #62
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…

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…

Exactly. I run Windows 10 everywhere -- and Windows Servers in the cloud. None of these problems that the Mac and Linux folks talk about.

They're basing everything on what they read in Mac printed magazines about "Windoze" back in the late 80s.

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

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Post by lostmsu »

oses wrote: post #70
lostmsu wrote: post #61

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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...

Good to know. But do any PC manufacturers do that in practice?
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