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Yeah it won't happen with people like you always shooting it down. Attitudes like that are stagnant and bad for users.

Marketshare is BS at this point IMO. The stats aren't even realistic because not everyone knows people are looking for those stats, have any interest in sharing those stats because they're paranoid (either stallmanites or windows users nervous to share info, which is fair tbh), or just refuse to share info at all. Look at this thread I made on steam. https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug/discussions/2/622954747298971963/ I made this thread forever ago, and sure theres some repeat posters in there, including me, but theres hundreds of posters in there that would appreciate some info on these channels. And not everyone in that group has replied, not even every linux user on steam is in that group. Its a rough percentage of linux users on steam, not all of them. Again, not everyone will send their stats.

Ok, I'm not even asking specifically for gaming benchmarks though. Even if it was just blender or something. Literally anything. Build firefox like LTT did. Something. Anything. If they didn't do tomb raider, do unigine. Do SOMETHING. While, yes, arch would run differently to void would run differently to fedora would run differently to tiny core, don't bother with that shit and cover ubuntu. Literally just the general audience. My problem is that GN is the best channel for that sort of coverage and I've seen many many people ask about coverage only to be ignored. Again, just a mention of literally anything. "This happens to run on ubuntu pretty well too" would literally be the only thing we'd want. "Ubuntu has drivers for the 5600XT that makes it plug and play, making it a quick and easy solution for XYZ." I don't see where thats a big undertaking. As well, that anything is mentioned is appreciated. I feel like I shouldn't have to mention this either, but theres a large crowd displaced from windows 7 now that refuse to upgrade but want something new. Is there not something to be said for that audience that, by the way, happens to hold a large percentage on Steam and probably watch these channels? The fact that that sort of product exists and is just easy to setup and go with, with actually solid hardware in a nice case.... I have a feeling most people think of linux and they think of a pentium 4 machine sitting in a literal pizza box, not a workstation or a machine that is pretty gaming capable. Also, linux games just fine. I actually get better performance in linux on my MSI GS63VR than I do in windows a lot of the time, the only reason it has windows on it right now is because I want to play escape from tarkov that badly. I think the fact that you can plug in a GPU and start playing witcher oat ultra on a 144hz monitor in 4k is pretty cool. But I can't tell you HOW MANY threads I have had to answer asking about installing amd gpu drivers, even tho they are built in and they don't need to do anything. Often with the fix to such things being "Oh, update to 19.04, you'll get even better performance". Yup. Its why I'm on L1T. My blog was just mine though, nothing like ItsFOSS or anything like that. I don't exactly expect people to dig thru itsFOSS or Phoronix though, as mentioned previously.

They don't have to build their channel on it, just a mention on the side would be enough. See my above posts.

I would, but a group of windows users is hardly the place I'd start with that lol. Its why I'm at least on L1T forums. I used to have a blog for that sorta thing but I wanted eyes to actually look at it. Again, if its not in a public space, no one will even know its there. IE, linux. Get it yet?

Well seeing as many people have put things together before, I'd think the request is enough to just google "Linux Gaming Benchmark". Or just linux benchmarks at all. Its not like blender doesn't have a port. This is information thats already known that is literally on the front of the website. Why should I have to mention that there happens to be a linux port of a benchmark that everyone already uses when they literally stare at the page.

While true, its far from difficult to download something from github, open the folder in a terminal, and type 'make install'. Its merely a part of using linux sometimes. While I would have agreed with that, say, 5 years ago, now we have popos, elementaryos, ubuntu, all doing a shitload of work to make sure that anything works, that theres no hangups, that you can just plug in your nvidia gpu and not have to screw around with stuff so much. Hell even AMD cards just work. And not quote en quote, like you can start streaming first install right away. Apt in some obs, plug in your audio, install steam, download game, go. I don't see whats so "user unfriendly" about that. Especially with an app store. To add, I don't see where its "So difficult" to setup a testbench on the side to even just see if something works. I don't need 8 hour grinds on shit, no one is asking that. Just some bloody effort. Sure but then why mention linux on some things and not others?

Actually I do a lot of posts already trying to make information visible for the people doing the reviews so they can find out why an older card is performing slightly better. Or just coverage of a new driver. I do loads of research sir, I only request a start, not a full blown linux review. LTT has done that start, and I am extremely happy with that. I just wish channels that were verified for what they are capable of, GN being the best IMO for data analytics of performance on different hardware (and therefore the people I would trust the most with that sorta thing), I would hope they'd just give a mention. Doesn't happen. I just hope it will soon.

Anyone can load up windows and hit the go button on unigine or tomb raider and watch the temps go up in after burner. Doing a shit load of tests can be a grind, sure. I'll give you that. Its hard work to manage ALL that data and make sure everything is straight. Its not hard to mention something on the side.

My point is linux users can make all the content they want, but all that we want is even just a mention of if something works on linux or not. More than just "New game on valve, PC/Mac/Linux". Theres other people who could comment on this, not just me. Again, DadsCamero1969 could be anyone, honestly. But if I cover stuff like Valve's ACO driver, no one would see. If GN mentioned in a re-review of, say, a 7770 or something (7870, whatever card) that linux has a new driver that gives a 6% performance bump, thats it, thats all we'd need.

At least in some accord. I'm a simple computer user. I play games, listen to spotify, go on facebook, and once in a blue moon I build my own apps when I need to (at least on X86, PPC and Sparc are another story). In a world where linux runs absolutely everything, and we break the mold on several display technologies, services (thinking app stores, yup, thats our fault lol), and technologies.... I would, for one, think that linux would get more coverage by tech channels because of how wide spread it is. This is not the case. As it stands, I'll call GN Steve (really GN in total) out for their refusal to include OpenGL and Vulkan in their benchmarks. Their argument is fair, not enough users to justify it (though the market share argument is long in the tooth and complete BS), or just assuming that linux performance will be the same. I'll tell you, its not. I can either get WORSE performance or BETTER performance depending on the game, as well when you go to linux, different drivers now exist for older hardware that they often revisit. Different hardware can just act differently on linux. A 5700XT could be stronger in linux with a driver update. But unless I hunt through Phoronix for 3 hours jumping between articles till I find the exact one I need, I'm not going to know that shit. And its not like its all that hard to just.... put in 2 extra data points and include a note on the side of any weirdness you noticed. Like really steve, what the fuck dude. Now, come over to the Chads at LTT, who to be fair don't include linux in their hardware reviews (yet), but actually give it a look. Actually have somewhat of an interest in it., The fact that yall did a thelio review and GN didn't should say a lot, in my opinion. And not just on GN. I mean in YT reviews in general. Linux users really want just some form of coverage that isn't DadsCamero1969 with 4 subs done on a DV tape recorder. Any coverage for us is exciting because, other than our own news outlets that are literally only meant for us, no one knows what cool shit we have. Like do any of you here know valve just put out an ACO driver for southern islands AMD cards that actually gives a 6% (on average) performance bump and includes cards like the R7 370 that was only useable with the ati driver? No, probably not. And I don't expect GN or Jay to do the research for that. Nor even LTT. But I expect a google search to pop up to one of my AMDGPU News / Info threads on the L1T forums, which in about 5 minutes you can learn what AMD is up to in linux nowadays. So you know, congrats on ignoring easy information. But at least we have.... something. I'm not going to link one of my friends to a Phoronix article and expect them to know what the hell they're talking about in the article. But you know what I could do? Link a GN review, LTT review, Jay review, and I think we're finally getting somewhere with that. I think its exciting that just the thelio getting a public review is a foothold enough to push for more to be done. Hell, WE'LL DONATE TO COVER THE COST OF TIME AND STRESS, JUST GIVE US SOME HELP. Ahem. Anyways. Point is, thank you Linus and the LTT team for not just laughing at us linux users when we ask "So uh hows that Thelio goin", or when we ask your opinion you don't blow us off. Not only do I appreciate that, but I know a lot of other people do. And steve if you're reading this, stop being lazy.

I want to congratulate Linus on another, and more successful year of LTX. I wanted so badly to go to the first one but I just couldn't afford flights 3: So I'm watching the Gamer's Nexus video where Steve and Linus just chat about LTX. And the comment about PAX comes up. Well, for me, I couldn't see LTX being ANYTHING LIKE pax. PAX is like the big version of that one cool nerd arcade you went to one summer in some other state. But its multiple days long, theres also ads everywhere, and soon you realize its a lot more entertaining at home with the adblocker on playing minecraft or whatever. No I see something interesting for LTX and maybe Linus hadn't really thought about it too much. LTX has the opportunity to support creators from youtube and try to prop them up from the BS that YT pulls. I was absolutely floored akbkuku had a booth and I hope he gets a good sub boost from it. Maybe Druaga1 as well, who knows. Point is, LTX is nothing like pax. Pax still tries to sell you something. LTX you know you're just going to see cool stuff everywhere. You'll meet cool people, see content creators you haven't seen before, and theres likely a chance you'll meet someone you wanted to meet, or didn't know you could, didn't know you would, etc. Like Linus said, theres no product launch. Everything falls into place and goes in order, unless someone gets hurt or has an accident otherwise, and then the few days is over and everyone goes home. When Linus laid that part out I was a little amazed that it would just go that smoothly, especially with him at the center of it. I'm glad for you man. get a nap while you can ;A; Aside from using LTX to drive traffic to better content sites like Floatplane, LTX has the ability to just help make content better, and help content creators keep going. Heck, some of them can make careers out of it, if not a side gig on top of something, but they don't have the chance or aren't sure if they should jump full time yet. Its an interesting thing I think, and maybe a future of "Content Creator" as a job title. Or just something funny to think about. I dunno.

Thats the cooler. I picked up the same machine.

Rude.

double post kek

I'd roll back to 10.12 or something. 13 had a lot of issues, Mojave is even worse. Its actually killing the 5k LG monitors and causing issues. Just don't use Mojave.

Could also be a hardware issue as I'm unfamiliar with Surface Pro's. But 3 and up should just work. If you can't accidentally linux onto it then the Level1 Techs forums will be of better help.

lol the root is where the OS goes silly. /boot/efi is a mount point. So the idea is that your EFI partition stores your bios settings and updates and firmware. Your root is where your OS install goes. Then you have /home which is your user directory. Mines separate from my root so I don't need a big root partition. So for you do /dev/sda1 - EXT4 - / - 150GB /dev/sda2 - FAT32 - /boot/efi - 800MB

Ooooh pentium M. My aesthetic. I ran a pentium M till 2012/13 when I go ta Lenovo B575. Wasn't as nice of a machine. Anyways, what does it need to do? My HP NW8000 is a workstation and games laptop to me, though it was originally built around CAD and 3D work (what a joke honestly). Do you want to do code stuff with it? Like design nonesuch. Or just general whatnot? Either way, your DE choice won't matter. Its not going to save you processor time whether you use Gnome 3, KDE, XFCE, or i3. What WILL save you time is your INIT. For that, anything not systemD will save you lots. So OpenRC and Runit are your friend. Artix, Void, Vine, theres a number of choices. Distrowatch's search will also be your friend in this instance.

Big memes bro.

Unless its a Skull or Hades, I'd say you're out of lanes.

mThen you're out of PCI lanes?

Its a UEFI machine so you'll want to go to custom partitioning and setup a root ( / ) partition, and a /bootl/efi partition. Root can be the sive of the drive, but /boot/efi needs to be 800mb.

I mean technically, but if you're going to install drivers and set up in a VM to then DHD it to a new desktop..... why not just use VM passthrough or just set up a new desktop? Seems kinda like a waste of time.

They're phasing out gen 1, 2, and 3 core series, as well as Core 2, just like everyone else.