ritualclarity

GOG was sold? Nice that they will support Linux. Lets hope they do something like Steam or help support the convesion of these games to Linux

IT has been awhile on my daily driver and I decided to swap it out with a slightly more powerful option I had laying around. Unlike Windoze it only took a couple of minutes. I seriously doubt it took more than 20 minutes to both install, update, install my prefrerred programs and configure everyting including all my book marks and such. It can take 20 minutes, if you are lucky, to just install windoze 11. Not to mention the hours of updates and other pain in the ass steps you have to do to get a running functional OS to start work. This current one has Linux Minit. Quickest and easiest to load. The old one which is being replaced will have Fedora Silverblue (immutable OS) for me to play with. I need to learn some network configuration encripting DNS and VPN configuraton which I have a bit of experience with but this will be through command line and config files. More work but I am starting to understand some of this.

Wow, time has changed. the graphics cards they have now, their cost and availablity. Big changes in close to 10 years. It seems like it was yesterday.

oH, I got my hands on a nice little dell laptop recently. It had Windows 10 on it. It was older hardware but ran nice. It is so different from Windows 11. I had forgotten how nice Windoze 10 was compared to Wndoze 11. It was a breeze compared to my Windoze 11 gaming system. (note, I went in and turned off updates for the next 5 weeks. Because they can't even keep their updates working right)

Oh while on the subject of memory https://www.ibuypower.com/blog/general/ddr6-ram-next-gen-memory

I have seen many older hardware on the various sites. However, that is ddr3 or ddr4 not ddr5. I believe looking at some of the laptops that he was unloading they are possibly ddr5 computers. That combined with the statement that he wanted to give people computers that they can use 5 or more years would IMO be more modern. With the release of DDR 5 It is likely those computers that just was released from lease and business upgrades. I personally tend to stick with the DDr4 type computers. New enough to be good if it was a powerful computer to begin with and old enough that it should be very cheap and still give me some use. Before DDR5 went crazy I did pick up some hardware that was much newer as it was a great price. But now, it is almost impossible.

Yes, this is true. However, they claim that they have limited success currently. It also won't be a Flatpak for those that prefer the clean option for software use. AT least I can't see it being able to do that as it requires too much low level access. Snap maybe, not Flatpak Regardless, it is a good solution for those non GPU programs that people need that might be holding them back from converting. Office, for example. Sure, there is some success with Wine and other options, but this is much more solid and reliable as it uses the actual windows programming. DLL etc. There is one more issues that you didn't mention, but I want to point out. It is WINDOWS in Linux. This can mean that there is a very real possibility of security issues. Not as serious as a traditional Windows install, but still those components can allow access. That combined with access to your files etc. can be a security issue IMO. Another issue is man-hours are being taken away from developing the programs that translate the Windows in real time. Tools like Proton and Wine to wedge a full Windows OS into Linux. This option bloats your install, where translation programs are more effective and provide less bloat. (not to mention more secure) Still it is an interesting option. A option I believe people did years ago by taking various components of Windows in an attempt to make it more compatible. Before Wine and other tools were developed to replace those DLLs etc.

hey, make all the data centers you want. So long as you also create the power plants to power them. Build them bigger than you need so you can have coverage to expand. You can then sell the excess off at market rates for what you don't use.

funny, the playback and access to the above video is a problem. Will try later. . Youtube was being an ass