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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Got a new work laptop: 13th Gen Intel Core i7 with 10 cores, 32 GB RAM, SSD. Also, Windows 11 Enterprise. That machine is incredibly slow β to boot, to open apps, to do anything really. Over the last 30 years weβve progressed CPU clock rate, RAM latency, and SSD performance to insane levels. We all have computers that are multiple times more performant than a Cray of yore. And yet the awful pile of steaming bloatware that is Windows and friends renders even modern mid-range machines aggravating to use, and not better than the user experience from the past three decades. It feels like the headroom provided by leaps in hardware is being completely canceled by a lazy lack of optimization of the tech-debt-ridden software stack /rant
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@m-j-r.eth
ive heard of a windows flavor that is completely debloated, but it's unofficial 3rd party. but what's the point? linux or os x will do the job.
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Miguelgarest
@miguelgarest.eth
Can you seamlessly do gaming on Linux /OS X?
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
I donβt game, and this is a corporate laptop, not for gaming
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@m-j-r.eth
compared to 20 years ago, there is barely a platform advantage. if the AAA can't be ported to steam on linux, I'm already questioning the bloat at the app layer, let alone the OS. but that is a solid point about work computers. no way to mod it π€·ββοΈ
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paw π©
@paw
I spent the past week tinkering with gaming on Linux, I made a specific installation just for gaming and I found that a) some games run better than on windows (one was crashing in windows but doesn't in Linux) b) some games don't run at all no matter how much time and effort you put into making it work c) most games can be run through steam or Heroic launcher However, if you get an issue you won't fix it. For example, 1. A game which is linux-native runs for me but has visual glitching - doesn't on windows 2. On windows I had to resort to using "debug mode" in Nvidia settings to make some games work, there's no such setting on linux. Speaking on Nvidia, gaming might be easier on amd
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