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  • AMD GPU Gaming Laptop - UK?

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  • Hop on over to overclockers.co.uk as they sell plenty of AMD gaming laptops but I’d hit up their forums first and ask for advice or give them a call. Someone there will be able to point you towards a decent model that supports Linux well.

  • AMD GPU Gaming Laptop - UK?

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  • PCSpecialist laptops are usually easy to install Linux on. Just be sure to change the operating system to “No operating system required” to save some money by not paying for a Windows license.

    Juno Computers ship theirs with Linux preinstalled.

    Dell also sell theirs with the option of Ubuntu.

  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • Yeah I’ve run the gauntlet of distros too (including setting up distcc across several boxes so I could run Gentoo everywhere (which is far too much of my life I can never get back).

    Arch is the best of Gentoo/Slack with the ease of Ubuntu/Debian.

    Also sounds like I need to buy a new card as I’m nvidia too right now.

  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • No I didn’t. I think the public source was a nightmare to build and get working (never tried, friends did though) and I wasn’t going to pay for it when the Wine project was publicly annoyed by the proprietary forks not contributing upstream (didn’t Wine relicense because of Cedega?).

    I payed for CrossOver over the years as they had Office working pretty well and as much as I use FOSS office suites for personal use, inevitably someone sends me something that wouldn’t open and I’d have to use MS Office.

    My biggest gripe with using Linux for gaming over the years was drivers and needing to switch between them since some would be good for compositors (typically the FOSS ones), others for gaming (typically the proprietary blob ones). Then there was the regular breakages etc.

    I wish I had switched to Arch sooner as I’ve had so few issues with that distro given the core packages are so minimal; there’s less opinionated cruft that other distros have. It’s much easier to tailor Arch to your needs.

    Naturally, my gaming rig will be running Arch (all my servers bar one run it too - absurdly stable for a rolling release).

  • 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux

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  • It’s been 12 years since Gaben committed to Linux publicly and honestly. It’s impressive to see that Valve has remained committed all this time and become a stellar contributor to the Linux ecosystem.

    They could have forked and kept their toys to themselves but instead they’ve continuously pushed their hard work upstream for every Linux distro to benefit from.

    My behemoth of a gaming rig is to be switched over to Linux in the coming weeks, bringing my use of Windows to an end after 30+ years (my gaming rig is the only system I still have Windows on).

    I’ve been using Linux since 2002 and if you told my younger self it would be the ex-Microsoft people behind Half-Life that would kill Windows, I’d have laughed you into oblivion. And yet here we are.

  • Is Nebula actually a privacy respecting YouTube alternative along with peer tube ?

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  • Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as the FDA Greenlights

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  • Heaven forbid you judge something yourself.

  • Ben Stiller not returning to direct 'Severance' Season 3

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  • I bet they also enjoy comments that

  • So so unfair

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  • I bet we’d look glorious, side by side, hair billowing in our combined, sparkling winds.

  • So so unfair

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  • This actually might be the secret! I live in a hard water area but I’ve got a water softener for my hot water in the house. I’ll have to test this out when I visit friends next who don’t have a softener.

  • So so unfair

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  • Long haired cismale here. I can use the cheapest shower gel and look magnificent.

  • YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

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  • Begun the kernel wars have

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  • I have a feeling you’re right about this. I do wish Microsoft would take the Apple approach as Apple steamed ahead with deprecating kernel-mode access.

    Love them or hate them, Apple take security a lot more seriously than Microsoft these days and it’s a real shame MS see security architecture as a nuisance rather than a core responsibility of their business.

  • Begun the kernel wars have

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  • Nope. They’re developing an alternative set of APIs for userspace in conjunction with security vendors for their products to use but it’s all still a long way off and will be optional to start with.

    Given the volume of mission-critical devices security products are installed on (which the CrowdStrike fuckup highlighted), getting them out of kernel space would be a huge risk reduction for the world. And security vendors would love to get away from that risk as pulling a CrowdStrike costs a lot of money setting things right with customers.

    But an anticheat used by consumers on their personal devices for a game, not such a big deal.

    While I’m sure MS will eventually deprecate and then kill off third party kernel drivers, it could take a decade since MS has so much business (both internal and within their customer base) that relies on legacy crap.

  • Sami Tikkanen on Rust, and on the dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils in it (without the GNU license)

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  • 🎼 It had to be you 🎵
    Wonderful you 🎵 
    It had to be you 🎵

  • Sami Tikkanen on Rust, and on the dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils in it (without the GNU license)

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  • Sorry, it has to be you. You are the chosen one.

  • Sami Tikkanen on Rust, and on the dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils in it (without the GNU license)

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  • You just track the MIT repo and automate the patching and releasing under a different license each time the MIT repo updates.

  • Sami Tikkanen on Rust, and on the dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils in it (without the GNU license)

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  • If the Rust version is released under MIT, simply fork it, rename it, and release under (A)GPL and ensure the community only uses that version. Sorted.

  • How do I survive a work day without caffeine?

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  • Many painkillers come with caffeine added too.