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Barnack

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    Male
  • Location
    Italy
  • Occupation
    Student

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  • CPU
    AMD FX(tm)-9590 Eight-Core Processor
  • Motherboard
    CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z
  • RAM
    AMD FX(tm)-9590 Eight-Core Processor
  • GPU
    Radeon RX 580 Sapphire Nitro +
  • Case
    Homemade
  • Storage
    2TB Western Digital Black (Windows 10), 500GB
  • PSU
    power lc66006p2 v2.3
  • Display(s)
    Samsung SyncMaster XL2270HD, Packard bell something something
  • Cooling
    Custom loop for cpu, builtin for gpu
  • Keyboard
    Corsair K95 Platinum RGB (MX Brown)
  • Mouse
    Corsair M65 Pro RGB
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro x64, Windows 10 Pro (outdated - no recent updates), Windows XP Professional x64

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  1. Use Windows 10 with Windows Subsystem for Linux and you'll run both in the same environment
  2. It's the one where you remove all usb ports, cd/dvd and floppy readers, wifi cards ad ethernet ports from your system
  3. It make me laugh how many people paranoid about windows 10 collecting info don't think twice before installing chrome and performing a google search... Disable what you can disable, live with the rest. Also i'd like to point out that not all data-collection is against the user's interest. Anonymous crash logs ARE data collection and they are useful in bugfixing.
  4. Opening the console from wwindows installer only gives you access to some command line utilities, system info is a gui utility
  5. through advanced options, open terminal and try in the exact sequence: bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot bootrec /scanos bootrec /rebuildbcd no idea why windows doesn't attempt these in the default recovery when in my experience they fix the issue most of the times
  6. A virtual machine inside an host OS will always consume more power than the raw OS you intend to use. If you need linux software and windows software you could use Windows 10 as main OS, activate Windows Subsystem for Linux and run linux binaries natively without an emulator, with every file shared in the same file system. WSL pretty much allows you to have both, while running just one; really, give it a try. Officially it only supports linux command line applications, but there are workarounds to make it run linux gui applications as well. And it works damn fine. If you're a developer you can even link visual studio to WSL, and compile your projects for linux, then run linux binaries directly there without restarting the os or running a virtual machine. Example of flexibility: write a single-file c++ program with notepad++, save the file, open bash, reach the file location, call "g++ file.cpp" then "./a.out" and there you go, you just compiled and ran linux binaries without switching os. I can't stress enough how amazing WSL is
  7. I still prefer the third option despite it being dead
  8. Greetings, In my computer i've a 1TB WD Black HDD with Windows 10 Pro x64 and a 2TB WD Blue HDD with Windows XP Professional x64. I use the 2TB as backup, and since for various reasons my main Windows 10 installation got screwed up not long ago, i had moved all the data to the 2TB drive. Today i needed to access some of the things i had saved in the 2TB drive, but it didn't show up in my computer. I won't easily accept quickly reaching the "it's dead" answer because a similar issue happened 3 years ago, and after reformatting the drive scandisk reported no damaged sectors. The difference this time is i need to recover around 500gb of the data it has, which won't fit in the 1TB even if i recover it. Although the drive is 5 years old by now. Yesterday there was a power failure and my system got suddenly shut down because of it; and i guess since i was writing to it that it might have damaged the filesystem or something on these lines. Opening diskmgmt.exe on windows the drive is there, with it's usual size, but it results as entirely unallocated AND uninitialized. Through diskpart > list disk the drive is there Under linux i tried running testdisk, mount and gparted, none of them even detected the drive. The drive isn't available as a boot option on the bios. Even assuming a recovery tool could access to all the files without damage, i wouldn't have space to put them in unless i buy a new drive... Following this link, using R-Undelete i right-clicked on the drive and chose the S.M.A.R.T. option. All it has to say is "Status: UNKNOWN". R-Undelete also gives me an option "scan for partitions". After 4 hours it only scanned 1.4MB. Am i to assume it's that slow because it's a slow process, or it's really indicative of an hardware-level failure? In any case to prevent any risk i physically detached the drive for now and won't access it until i have something figured out.
  9. Windows 10 Pro for free (ty Microsoft Imagine for students), WSL for testing programs when compiling for Linux. Planning to replace Windows 10 on my laptop with msDOS to reduce power consumption and make it easier to focus on taking notes instead of playing tetris during lesson. (Might be joking but i might have been seriously thinking about that)
  10. Greetings, I'm planning to build a desk case during this summer, and i'm currently working on the concept. I whish to maximize airflow and cooling capacity minimizing space and potential dust. I know it's surprising but aesthetics are secondary and while i'll enjoy having my pc components under my nodes in sight, i don't plan RGBing the thing. About dust: a reason why i want a desk case (or even just an horizontal case) is having fans sideways vertically both intake and outtake; no opening that directly faces up on which dust can deposit, and no opening on bottom close to a surface that would suck in dust. About airflow: instead of the normal case "L" shape of the airflow, from bottom to up then back, i want air flowing in a direct line. the whole desk will be modular, with the pc case module alone being usable as just a normal case but sideways. For my current components i have an already nice 3 fan water loop for the CPU and stock cooler for the GPU. I'm planning to replace everything (except hard drives) in a couple years anyway, and i want the desk i'm making this summer usable for the future components as well. In that future i'll want to have a second water loop for the GPU and here start the issues: where to put a second 4 fans radiator (and from there psu placement too)? I have 2 options here and i'm not sure which way to take. The cpu radiator is the intake in the simplified concept picture attached (don't worry i have a project with actual scales on paper, made that one quick on paint) so that it gets fresh room air directly on the radiator, than that warmer air goes through motherboard heatsinks and ram which don't need as much cooling anyway and won't be highly affected by having warmer air go through them. First simple idea is putting the second radiator on the outtake side, with the benefit of being close to the gpu as the cpu radiator is close to the cpu. In that case i'd put the PSU without the casing next to the motherboard, with the whole case airflow taking care of it. Problem is, the second radiator will have already warm air going through it. And since i want to keep size not as excessive as most desk cases you see around, i wouldn't know where to put reservoirs and pumps. Second idea is making the computer module on 2 levels; the top one as in the picture, with reservoirs on the side of the motherboard (bottom in the picture, close to the user that sits) so they are high on the loop, and in the second level the second radiator right below the first one, the hard drives, the 2 pumps, and the case-less psu that would again rely on the internal airflow. Which idea do you think is better? Does anyone have a different design to suggest that is cheap on the space side? Note on the airflow decision: i want the warm air outtake to be as far as possible from the air intake. Also during winter i'd just swap the side in which the drawers and computer module are to get nice warm air coming from under the desk. And finally is there any free software or something to design cases that already has pc components models in a library?
  11. Yeah well unless you buy me an i9 with a compatible motherboard i'm stuck with that. I'll try undervolting it from bios settings
  12. I mean you have the same freedom on windows 2/4/5 are just about taste. I prefer having direct control on where things go when i install them, you don't. WSL doesn't suck at all in my experience. When i compile for Linux i do it with the Linux version of gcc directly from Windows, and i can run the compiled Linux binaries directly on Windows without having to start a vm. That's what WSL does. Also Visual Studio can be set to work with WSL when compiling for Linux. Again, taste. I prefer Visual Studio. Weird, i never had issues with night mode. My only issue is about the new start menu (and it's only taste-related) but Open Shell takes care of that. As for the forced updates thingy everyone cries about, just disable it lol. _____________________________________________ Finally,correct me if i'm wrong but this topic is about "share your thoughts", and thoughts are inherently related to personal taste. There's no point in arguing on something based on taste like user control over software installation or preferring an IDE instead of a text-editor + command line utilities combination. You don't have to "defend" Linux point by point, because i'm not attacking it. I'm just explaining why I in particular don't like it. I'm saying what my issues are with Linux, I'm not claiming they are objective issues. But yeah if I'll ever need to use Linux, you can bet it won't be Ubuntu. (Speaking about bugs, on Ubuntu i had a system log file mysteriously growing over and over for 3 months until i randomly found out that a single file was filling half the drive)
  13. Honestly I've been using Linux (Ubuntu) for 3 years for my university course (not even gaming), and i didn't like it at all. UBUNTU SPECIFICALLY: Desktop Experience customization Default directory structure Console too is fine, console only can be meh Software installation Software uninstallation LINUX IN GENERAL Just too many parallel distros OTHERS In the exact moment Windows Subsystem for Linux touched my computer, i already knew i could immediately format the ubuntu drive. Windows now supports Linux software without emulation, directly running Linux system calls in your windows machine. Why hasn't LTT made a video about that yet??? Windows has Visual Studio, Linux doesn't ? And finally I'm more used with Windows, I know it more deeply, and hence can't stand the things Linux does differently; the exact same feelings i bet main Linux users have towards Windows. Because at the end of the day, you'll be better using the one you know and understand better. Unless you feel the urgent need to recompile the source code of your OS, in that case go Linux ?
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