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Yeah, theoretically I have to sign a paper where I tell where I’m going and where I’m from and the reason I’m doing that. 
I’m 100km far from the closest red zone and in my city I think there are 10 cases
 
Pretty sure not everyone did this and I have yet to see a single police officer checking all the cars travelling on the road
 
Meanwhile I just left those papers in my car

It just wont, they are not even interested, probably they are unaware the fact va-api actually works and it's not the garbage it was in 2010
But I also think they prefer developing the OpenGL video decoding backend called glxsomething 
 
Some chromium beta builds actually have hardware decoding with va-api, I don't know if there are still PPA's around there with it
It actually is, but not for GPU's or anything media related that is supposed to work with Windows software (few exceptions with the playstation 4 controller driver for example)
 
Are you referring to the AMD Southern Island amdgpu driver?
That's because it's still an experimental support, using the terminal is mandatory as it's basically an hack, but not for installing classic proprietary nvidia drivers, you have the GUI for that

Cups is for printing, not for scanning
 
You need the HPLIP drivers probably

Well I imagined it...
Sometimes you are supposed to change the RDP port for various reasons (security, multi servers, etc)...
But usually (at least me) you do that via a firewall rule and never locally, but it happened in the past it was necessary because of some odd windows bug where the 3389 port never worked 

Seriously no one checked the event logs?

Well I imagined it...
Sometimes you are supposed to change the RDP port for various reasons (security, multi servers, etc)...
But usually (at least me) you do that via a firewall rule and never locally, but it happened in the past it was necessary because of some odd windows bug where the 3389 port never worked 

Wait for Asus Zephyrus G14.
I am hyped for it, but I would wait for reviews first.

I don't know why every linux thread goes wrong every time

As has been pointed out, user base numbers effect product development regardless of OS quality.
 
 
That's not how the free market arguments works,  most people will not buy a veyron due to price alone.  Keeping it in context to the discussion, if the linux desktop was suitable for business/home (several distro's offer very competitive product support just like MS does) then more people would use it.  The operating system is a tool and should be thought of as one when considering free market business.   If you can get a better tool cheaper you do.  That is why 99% of web servers are Linux,  it is a better tool for the job. 
 
The fact is majority of people do not use it (to the tune of 97% or so) means it is either not good enough or costs too much, it has been around well long enough to prove itself in the free market with several laptop manufacturers offering laptops with ubuntu (or at least did),  and in that time chromebooks have come and are still a thing.  So market presence alone is not the reason Linux is only at 2%

I don't know why every linux thread goes wrong every time

I would say that marketshare is definitely highly correlated with quality. If linux was the superior operating system and is a free alternative to windows why wouldn't companies run all their office computers on linux rather than windows? It would cost less and be superior right? Linux is great for some things and is even the majority marketshare for very specific use cases but for normal desktop users it is not. If linux actually provided a comparable desktop experience to windows you wouldn't see such a low marketshare. 

Quantity =\= quality

Thanks for explaining this every single time someone mentions bottleneck, but just gonna add that its almost impossible to have a colloquial error over text, but you've somehow managed. at 900-1080p in most games, the 2700x will not allow the 2070 to run at 100% because it can't keep up. We all know thats what he meant. I hope..

As the others are saying you are missing hardware acceleration on Linux, I once made a repository if you are on Ubuntu I'll try to update it, it only works with chromium since Firefox has no intention to enable it.
If you are on an arch-based distro you can install it from the AUR

Why does the year decide what screen size is best for me?

Oh god /g/ will be angry

What distribution? 
Kernel logs? 

In desktops I would opt for the 18.04 just for better 3D and 2D drivers

Why not just using OpenVPN? It's so far more secure and easy to setup

I'm pretty sure the real point here is you can also decide which updates to do.
 
I mean, you can separately update security vulnerabilities similarly to Linux where at least Ubuntu/Debian package manager has a flag for security updates rather than the application ones
 
Windows "new" system is just bad as it is. I wouldn't mind twice to automatically apply security updates if only I could prevent other useless updates that are more likely to harm the system.

If you just need to program in Python you could basically use everything with a python interpreter on it? 

If you just need to program in Python you could basically use everything with a python interpreter on it? 

I'd suggest NOT backing up to optical media, as it's not a reliable medium for long term.
Even if you store them well, after around 3-5 years, you'll start to get bit rot, air and humidity starts to get inside the layers and the layers can oxidize on the edges of the discs and you can begin to lose data or have difficulty retrieving it.
 
It's also not cheap...
Let's say you get a 50 pack for 36$ : https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-BD-R-Blu-ray-Recordable-Media/dp/B00GSQ4DBM/
That's 1250 GB for 35$ or 0.028$ per GB.
 
You can buy mechanical hard drives for around the same price, and you don't have to hassle with burning.
ex.
4 TB for 90-100$ : https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822235011?Item=N82E16822235011
6 TB for 140-150$ : https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16822183794?Item=N82E16822183794
 
That's 0.0225$ per GB for the 4 TB drive, and 0.0233$ per GB for the 6 TB version.
You can also buy two and copy contents on both drives ... it would still make more sense than optical media.
 

"Plug and play as on windows"
Well... ? most of the time
 
Where are you supposed to use the terminal to make things work?
Linux is even more plug&play than Windows since you don't even have to download the drivers manually (exception made for Nvidia, but you are still using a GUI for that)

I think you are confusing how things were years ago, the real problem here is making things work if you don't have the driver because you are using Debian or Ubuntu LTS for example, and you just bought a 5700 XT, the development here is slower (means you have to wait for updated drivers on your system) unless you pick a distribution with costantly updated (and unstable) drivers, this imo is where the problem really is.

You have to choose between compatibility or stability, at least on Ubuntu LTS you can install repositories (you could do that even with a GUI) it's not properly "plug and play" to set those up, but is not even that hard or different than finding drivers on the internet like on Windows, you just have to know where to look, the majority of the Linux community is really confused here and will just recommend to install another distro, something like Manjaro, instead of using a stable distro with small parts of the system slightly more updated and this is the correct way.
Some people are not even able to do that in Windows... Generally is not that different or harder
 
As for steam proton, this is just what you said, it lets you play games without fiddling with wine and it's plug & play