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[sophisticles]

Who is actually buying their stuff?

These people do not understand basic business principles, Linux, and open source software in general,...

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How is closed source a disadvantage?

Who know the inner workings of an NVIDIA GPU better than NVIDIA?

I don't get this obsession...

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Does anything run reliably with Wayland?

All i see is complaints about Wayland from users of various video cards....

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I thought that Linux didn't have any bugs.

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, at this development.

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I know many on this forum will hate what I am about to say, but if you want the best overall experience on Linux, you have to use an Nvidia card with...

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I would say do away with SMT and P cores completely and just release a high E core count CPU. for the desktop, like that rumored 128 E-core only Xeon...

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Obviously you guys did not get the Fight Club reference.

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Technically, Linux does refer to the kernel but since the early days, the term Linux based OSes have been referred to as Linux.

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What a suck ass distro:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US.../installation/



This is so laughably...

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I didn't quite understand the subtle nuances of every thing you wrote, can you explain it again, in a slightly different way?...

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Over the years i have bought and used cards from various vendors, Nvidia, ATI, AMD, Matrox, Hercules, 3dfx, so I have no allegiance to any one vendor....

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"High-end, demanding games" and "32-bit support" is a contradiction in terms. 32-bit only allows up to 4gb addressing, either am,...

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I am no AMD fanboy but I suspect that if Intel does decide to go through with this, AMD may announce a new x86, 128-bit only, processor.

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Unless you want to play RE4 Remake with all the settings maxed out at 1080p, which then eats up 12gb vram and still wants more:

https://...

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Funny you should mention this:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...0.1002/jaa2.18...

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System 76 does not have a business model, they have a hobby.

They start with Ubuntu, change it around a bit, release those changes for free,...

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For most new gaming, more vram is a must.

Just look at RE4 Remake which eats ram for lunch, a slower card with more ram will perform better...

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I'm reminded of Rick and Morty where Rick goes to the Citadel of Ricks and there's 2 Morty's working as prostitutes and one of them says "One Morty...

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I did not see it mentioned in the review but these laptops start at $1300; to me that's a but steep for a Linux based laptop.

Be that as...

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Do you realize how funny this is?

I'm reminded of an old MADtv skit called Lowered Expectations.

Imagine if someone bought a...