Comment on Microsoft will offer free Windows 10 extended security updates in Europe

Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why not start with the one you have already

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s got dual graphics cards, with the graphics an Nvidia one. I’ve heard that they are finicky with Linux…

    I’ve moved my old laptop over to mint, to try it out. That all worked well, but I couldn’t get proton vpn working and couldn’t try out my games over stream and epic.

    The next machine I buy will be purposely a Linux machine, I mean to get it in januari so the period of delay is bearable.

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    • suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s got dual graphics cards, with the graphics an Nvidia one. I’ve heard that they are finicky with Linux…

      Not really. I’ve been using Nvidia cards on Linux for decades, the complaints are blown way, way out of proportion. Just install the proprietary drivers from the distro’s repos and 99% of the time that’s all that’s needed. The people who complain usually screwed something up, like installing drivers from the wrong source or not installing the meta package for their kernel headers so the drivers can’t rebuild on kernel updates. Just follow the official instructions for your distro and that should be all you have to do, there’s a lot of bad advice floating around on forums.

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      • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How is HDR support with nvidia on Linux? I have my PC hooked up to the TV so use it for HDR in games and also for movies and TV shows.

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      • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I see, well I might try it out for sure, like you said it’s quite hard to cull all the different sources of advice and the plethora of flavors of Linux to take into consideration.

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    • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not nearly as bad as some people describe. Some of it keeps echoing from what people experienced in the past, and they’ve just never bothered to educate themselves on how it is now.

      Worst case scenario, you can always drop an iso onto a usb stick, and take things for a spin

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• goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Slimbook is ok

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