A couple generations back, Nvidia was the obvious choice and AMD just couldn’t compete. Nvidia had real-time ray tracing, AMD didn’t, Nvidia’s hardware video encoding was great, AMD’s sucked, Nvidia had CUDA, AMD pretty much didn’t, Nvidia had their DLSS frame gen technology, AMD either didn’t or it wasn’t very good.

Well, in most of those places, AMD has caught up, and they offer more VRAM in their lower tier products, at better prices.

Oh, and I’ve been hearing through the grapevine that Nvidia is dropping the ball with drivers. That used to be AMD’s bag, but AMD’s drivers are more solid these days.

Oh, and Nvidia’s weird new power socket keeps catching on fire. I’ve got a 7900GRE that attaches with two good old 8-pin PCIe connectors that offer a distinct lack of combustion.

I think they had to make that change because there was a Radeon 9700 back in the ATI days or something. I just wish they hadn’t done the RX thing. Because those charts where people compare GPU performance will have legends like:

RX-7600 RTX-5060 RX-9060XT TXT-6060RXT TVX-5040T RTX-4060

and you say "There’s no consistency with generation or manufacturer and I’m pretty sure one of those is the part number of a cylinder head for a Toyota Tacoma.

I haven’t seen anyone stop calling it that except IBM’s marketing division. How much money do you think IBM has wasted renaming the AS400?

On Linux it’s either it just works or it just doesn’t. There is no background process pondering the orb of the ancients where it might eventually find enlightenment.

Yeah I owned the Soundblaster already though. Along with the entire PC it was in. Which still works.

Side story, that old Dell XPS is a full tower, as far as I can tell it’s ATX compliant, it’s got the airflow of the average coffin, but unplug the Win 7 hard drive, plug in a new SSD with Mint, and runs like a new PC. I’ve been using it for its optical drives. It’s got a bunch of legacy features that are nice to have around, like a PCI slot, external SATA, firewire etc. so it’s a box I can run modern Linux on and still have access to the obsolete tech scattered around the world. And I got a sound card out of it.

quoting Clark Griswold

Honestly…would this card be plug-and-play in Windows? Or would you have to go find a driver for it? It’s an 18 year old PCIe 1.0 card, does Creative push a Win11 driver for it?

Or would they demand it in Go? Or have they abandoned that?

Or installing software the Windows way: google “something doer” and click the second link, find the Download page and then click yes when it asks “Allow Sworn Enemies Of Democracy to make changes on this computer?”

I begrudgingly prefer AppImage to being told to make make install, at this point. You know those little projects that will never go into a standard repo or flatpak. For example, some ham radios used a converter box that hooked up to a Windows 95 PC via serial so you could program its internal memory. Well, none of that shit exists anymore. so some guy somewhere has written a thing to do it with a Raspberry Pi’s GPIO. 444 people in the world will ever download and use this software. I’d rather you AppImage that than tell me to git clone make make install.

I think they broke up.

My PC has 32GB of RAM. I can run a video game while having a fuckton of browser tabs open. I could probably get away with 16.

I am in the final stages of building two PCs for relatives of mine, and I don’t think I did so an hour too soon. I watched RAM double in price the day after I bought it.

I have Bazzite on an HTPC. It’s Fedora but you can’t use DNF only Flatpak. I personally wouldn’t use Bazzite on my main PC. The gimmick with Bazzite is it’s ideal for entertainment appliances, it’s as close to SteamOS you can get forking Fedora Kinote.

If you want to do anything of any scale with Python, you need to understand OOP because that’s how modules work, but you can use it without.

once the last boomer is cold l.

And they did this by theming and extending Gnome, so Gnome must break it on their behalf bi-weekly.

That’s normal. cats are a viscous liquid.

Modern day Quickbooks has gone the way of Office 365 hasn’t it? It’s just their website?

That’s something that has me hesitating starting a business, is Linux business software. I’ve heard of Odoo, and it’s allegedly open source but kinda not…?

I believe the original concept was that humans were used for processing power, but explaining “brain is computer, computers together stronk” to the audience of a guns and karate movie in 1999 wasn’t as easy as holding up a duracell.