That’s odd. I’ve been running OpensSUSE Tumbleweed with a Ryzen 9 5950X and RTX 3080 with no issues. I don’t know what would be making yours, with similar hardware, function differently unless it’s the laptop stuff for dynamically switching between onboard graphics and the GPU.

What kind of graphics hardware does your laptop have?

Debian and Mandrake in the late 1990s. And I was already almost three times as old as you were when you started. These days I’m happy with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for daily use. I tried NixOS but it threatened to break my old brain.

https://archive.is/7UQne

The song and the post are funny, but the thread full of redditors taking it seriously is a bit depressing.

Stadia was actually a good product

That’s how Google decides which ones to kill off.

I wouldn’t trust mine. They haven’t been doing such a great job for the last few decades.

Because someone told them the Bible told them so.

The focus on Microsoft is odd. I remember most people using WordPerfect for DOS and other non-WYSIWYG word processors up until around 1993. These were much better for focusing on writing. MS Word came from behind and started to take over as Windows 3.1 and then Windows 95 became standard. Word wasn’t the best word processor back then and was very buggy, but Microsoft succeeded in marketing it as a natural companion for Windows and bundling it with Excel and PowerPoint, and WordPerfect was slower to move to WYSIWYG.

The rise of the web was also happening at that time, and this article doesn’t give it enough attention as a major influence on document format and a motivation behind markdown.

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The USA needs to get rid of these fascists. They are destroying all aspects of American life and will leave the country in tatters and unable to cope with climate change, pandemics and even feeding, housing and caring for its own people. This is intentional because their ideology tells them that only certain superior people deserve to live, and it’s “natural selection” if the “weak” just die. Just by chance, the superior people happen to be themselves.

It’s true, but the effect is still much less pronounced on Linux than Windows. Opening a web browser, for instance, is usually a lot faster in Linux than opening the same browser in Windows.

Part of the problem is everyone building on common libraries that themselves build on libraries, leading to layer after layer of abstraction with a little loss of efficiency at each one. Since most software is cross-platform, this affects multiple operating systems. And needing to build for multiple platforms is itself one of the drivers of all this abstraction.

The same with the incredibly powerful CPUs and huge amounts of RAM we all have now. These are little supercomputers, and everything in Windows takes longer than it did 25 years ago on machines with a tiny fraction of the power.

Deleting files and folders in Windows is the one that gets me. It’s so incredibly slow, and if you try to cancel it manages to take even longer “Cancelling…”.

Interestingly they did the same with Word 97: loaded Office at startup so the individual Office applications would seem to launch faster.

Capitalism isn’t “when people get paid for working.” And people getting paid for doing a job isn’t the problem highlighted in this post. In any case, there are any number of ways people might be motivated to do something useful.

How dare other companies cheat by having more stringent food standards than the USA? Everyone should be forced to buy and ingest real American salmonella.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed because it’s very up to date yet reliable, package management doesn’t require me to get my head around anything complicated, automatic btrfs snapshots allow me to rollback if I mess anything up, and I like KDE Plasma and the YaST utilities.

Hairdryers are quite loud too. It’s a stretch to describe even the sonic boom as “silent”.

The headline is misleading. It’s quieter, but far from silent.

Found the tiger.