They are a monopoly protected by patents. Completely unamerican philosophically.
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Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I hope he wins.
Windows peaked with XP. 7 was alright. 8 was a free fall of a downward slide falloff.
Appified overly complicated slop and bloat filled garbage ever since.
ronigami@lemmy.world 7 months ago
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
IDK I liked 7 pretty much as much as I like XP. For me it was 10 that was just alright.
My brother convinced me to switch to 11 when I built my most recent gaming desktop and I somewhat regret listening to him but I know dual booting is a waste of time for me and I’m not quite ready to make the full jump to Linux because my desktop has a 4070 Super. It’ll ahve to wait until my next PC. Fortunately, I don’t have the version of 11 with Recall pre-installed at least.
I use my Steam Deck more than my gaming desktop these days anyway.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Why is the 4070 an issue regarding linux? Nvidia drivers have come a long way since the beginning of the year, currently running modded cyberpunk on my 3070 Ti without issues.
lightnegative@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nvidia on modern Linux (Wayland) is garbage and I’m buying AMD next time.
Like seriously, people will try and tell you “oh you can install the proprietary driver easily now and they’ve come a long way”
Sure, but it’s still garbage. I can’t even full screen a video in Firefox without a it crashing and a bunch of apps simply refuse to work without shitty environment variable hacks to drop back to software rendering
I’m not a noob either, I’ve been using Linux as my primary OS since 2008
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I just tried it out and it worked flawless, and i had a lot more luck than you with different apps. we can at least agree that it isn’t consistently stable depending on configuration, and i feel pretty lucky that my nobara installation is one of the happy ones.
dropped_packet@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Wayland on Nvidia has a lot of issues was the big one for me. I ended up selling my Nvidia card and bought an AMD card instead.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
What AMD card did you get? I switched to Linux and want to drop Nvidia.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Performance is still noticeably worse. Based on some cursory research, the 4070 Super gets like ~20% less FPS on Bazzite compared to Windows on a 4070 Super and I tend to play high fidelity shooters on my desktop so frames per second matters.
Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Fair point. Do you know if they where using the open source driver for thr graphics card? Or Nvidia’s proprietary one? Because I’m on Fedora using the Nvidia driver and I dont notice that much of a fps drop. It is some, maybe 5-10%
Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Why does the 4070 super keep you from switching to Linux? I have a gaming PC with a 4070 and I dont really have issues. No more than I did with windows in general
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Win 2k pro was best. Fight me;) I hated the fisher price look of XP.
lightnegative@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nah win2k pro was really, really slow compared to xp
Randelung@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I liked Vista. Aero Glass was cool.
nulluser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
3.1
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
the fisher price look of XP.
Thank you for my belly laugh of the day. 😂
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
It had classic themes available
Valmond@lemmy.world 7 months ago
DirectX 3.5 only? IIRC.
TBi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nah they peaked at NT4.0! Fight me! I remember using that for my dual core celeron system! Abit BP6 FTW.
(I agree with you about 2k, but I liked XP and loved the look of Vista so what do I know…)
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nah, they peaked at Windows for Workgroups… Bury me, Im that old lol.
TBi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You and your fancy workgroups! In my day we had DOS and we were happy!
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Win 7 for me. It didn’t try to fix what want broken.