novacomets

Linux will never catch on to the home users. It's a schizophrenic system. The difference between Debian, Arch, and Fedora, is like saying Windows 7 programs can not be installed on Windows 10, nobody will ever talk about Windows 10.

People want to be able to download programs from websites, double click and install it. The whole "distribution" thing is stupid and is a wall blocking mass adoption. There's people that only know how to use Adobe programs. People want brand name programs, not alternatives.

I use OpenBSD and FrerBSD, I'm setting up a BSD router, but for gaming, that is all exclusively on Windoes.

One tip if you truly want people you know to install Linux, learn how to do all of the configuration and maintaintence through SSH. If you are available at anytime to SSH and look at something, that would open up a few people willing to try. For example if someone calls you and says they want a program,you SSH in, type the command to install the program, and tell them it will be listed in the menu in a minute when it's dine

There is not a one software solution for everybody. Between CalyxOS and Graphene, whichever one you choose.

For VPN, based on your geography, I suggest either RiseUp VPN or Bitmask.

Do you know, because I don't, if 5090 with 3 8-pin connections would be 100% stable?

Use a live Linux CD/USB but do not install it and wipe the drive with command "shred -uzv /dev/sda" or whichever the drive is. Use partition manager to check the label for the drive to securely wipe it.

It would be good for them to release a Panther Lake version of the i3 14100 as successor. I could make use of that as a spare/secondary computer.

Linux desktop will never happen for the mass market. Linux is not an option for many people. You are pushing ideology and it shows your lack of job experience. You've never made a good size living in IT working in spport of random customers systems or working in an office environment for others to tell you every time someone wants you to come fix something.

Once you are fluent in setting up a BSD GUI desktop, not Linix, and you become skilled in remote sys admin work, then we can talk about why people should use Linux.

My first priority is picture quality. Play on max/ultra everything but disable upscaling

I view upscaling as giving a developers a cop out for not having to optimize games, as well as an admission of noting capable of enginner gaming GPU's that can do 4K ultra path tracing 165fps.

I'm also getting suspiciois that AAA+ games are dismissing original wring and story development to replace with flashy graphics and then sell it on how good the game looks. Indie studies don't have the budget for upscalling, no 6 year old games from anybody has upscaling, I find it to be more of a gimmick than a solution. Nobody plays a game 4 years after release because of how good the game looks for grahics.

Am I alone and being firmly against upscaling, never tried it, and everything is played or native resolution only? There have been games that only used 20% of GPU so I doubled game reaultion, but never upscaling.

I plan to try to go to a game because from watching YouTube there is some goid players with heart and not so corporate. I do not support "women's hockey", I only want to see some excellent hockey played, but I do hope that the league is exclusively for females and not indentify aa a woman

Intel needs to design 1 Core Ultra 9 and 1 Core Ultra 7 that is entirely made of P-cores, zero E-cores on the physical die, and watxh how much better those sell compared to all of the other ones.

Even though Intel isn't the fastest, the mix of having 2 different architectures designs with P-cores being from one design and E-cores being of a different architecture, it is affecting people's experience.

Intel can still compete against AMD 8-core non-x3D, but not with e-cores in the mix. For systems that run on on-board graphics from APU and will never have an nVidia/Radeon GPU installed, Intel rules all.

What's crippling Intel is their obsession on sales figures for stock market price and not raw performance to maintain mindshare. Oh, and leave a new CEO in power for a minimum of at least 5+ years to seeing the very beginning of the fruits of their work. Nothing gets fixed in 2 years. In took AMD 10 years to take Intel's sales and now Intel is falling off, that shows that the problem isinternal, and not due to competition. External competition only exposed the slop and filth of how Intel is structured and run since Intel is still not ready to start fighting off from being swallowed.

Am I alone being against all forms of upscaling, and play everything on native resolution only? I always disable DLSS/FSR/XeSS