That is absolutely horrible QC.

I have firefox with ublock origin :) But yeah, Phoronix is horrible without an adblocker.

Make sure that all cables make correct contact. And pray, praying might work…

Pretty hard thing to do. Intel failed to make one that works correctly.

I assume that Apple will continue buying modems from Qualcomm or is there another vendor (excluding Huawei)?

That is old news and already happening.

Point is that seldom used instructions are microcoded anyway, so they take zero space on the CPU.

XP 64 was a Server 2003 64bit edition for workstations. They had the same kernel as well. Oddball, but it did work well if you could find your drivers. I went straight to 7 64 after that.

Exchange takes all the memory you got.

Your understanding is wrong. Nvidia pushed a connector without adequate testing and the connector failed, killing cards.

Bad adapters are a thing, as they ALWAYS were. An adapter cannot fixed a problematic specification.

Users are not to blame: badly designed connector is to blame, not the users. There is a reason why the AT connector for PSUs was abandoned: It was a two part connector that could be easily inserted wrong and burn your components.

P.S. I am an electrical engineer also that turned to IT work, so i understand Igor’s arguments and the mechanics behind the connector.

That will be on another level of pain. The 75w limit is safe and does not require rework. Having motherboards designed to deliver 200-300W on a slot would be very messy and very expensive.

Most of the stuff works out of box, nowadays. The average user would never use linux anyway and if someone has taken the effort to install an alternative operating system, I guess that they can at least google.

If you can’t figure out how to install steam and do some clicks… Linux gaming is very easy nowadays.

7970GHZ->RX480->6700XT

More than happy.

I need a 4 series Thinkpad with a 16:10 display and a 12 CU RDNA3. A man can dream…

I had the P3 back then! Amazing CPU; very, very fast.

Too late for that…

5500X3D? Hmmmm, I might upgrade my 3600xt at work.

I would wager that there are more linux laptops than WOA ones right now. Third place is probably chromeos.

Do not switch to Manjaro. Manjaro is problematic. Go either arch or pop os, or something that works. Depending on the distro, you might have to update drivers to a more “unstable” version.

I am completely switched to linux. The vast majority of my games work and work well. Steam is obviously the most important piece to make this work. Bottles is also good and Lutris. For gog+epic games you can use the heroic launcher.

Unless the specific games / programs you want to play with don’t work, your experience will be actually very good. It’s amazing how good gaming has become on linux.