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Ugh..... Xubuntu

It's more like "They built an OS inside a virtual machine" but the ART today Java VM is a different thing from the past(Dalvik, the one before android 4), much comparable to native performance

There are also some other good vm-based OS like Inferno/Plan9

GPT with grub as legacy (no UEFI) requires a boot partition (it has to be 1M and marked as "boot partition")

I would edit the boot parameters to disable the Radeon driver and forcing the Intel one for everything
 
Try
press E when grub is shown to edit boot parameters, add them after quiet splash separated with a space
 
Try those boot parameters separately if putting all of them doesn't give any luck, like
 
radeon.blacklist=1 i915.modeset=1
then
radeon.modeset=0 i915.modeset=1
 
radeon.blacklist=1 only separately, same for modeset
 
If none of those still gives any luck, try amdgpu instead of radeon like amdgpu.blacklist=1... etc following all the steps again

I still get it sometimes, I could basically open my eyes after a nightmare, but I'm not able to distinguish things and I start to hallucinate like you looked at the sun directly or some bright image, and you still see it when you look at something else, things that do not exist in the real world but that can get confused in a dark room, but once I'm able to move I quickly pick up the phone and just act as it's normal...I just deal with it.

When I was a kid, I was totally able to control my dreams and wake up relatively quickly, now I can't but I'm not scared as I used to do

Hi, Dell usually tends to have supported ACPI because of their XPS developer version which comes out with Ubuntu pre-installed, so you won't have any problems with the backlight, sleep, etc...

As for external drawing screen tablet, usually depends from the availability of the drivers, I got a simple Huion for playing osu, and it works. Wacom should have native support too, its something you can check with Google.

Davinci resolve has a native linux version and is easy to install, has a windows-like setup, but unlike windows, it doesn't support H264 video playback for some reason, so you will need to encode in HEVC or something else, I don't know the details

Any DX11 game is likely to run, except the one with EAC which are something currently unsupported with wine atm which are currently in development with Valve for a solution

As for customization, every linux distro lets you do that

Speaking of safety, viruses are less prone to attack you due to linux being less used in desktops and also because of the package manager, as for hacks/vulnerabilities, as long you update your system regularly, there are no issues compared with WIndows 10 automatic updates, as for privacy, some distros like ubuntu tend to send a minimal quantity of data compared to Windows.

Wine should be capable of running Windows programs, but has to be compatible. C# ones tend to be the most supported

As for the distro, you may choose the one you like, that should have all you need, but if you are unsure choose the most updated one just to be sure to have more drivers for your peripherals you want to run, like Ubuntu 19.04 or PopOS, or Manjaro Linux (Which has a slighly harder learning curve as it's based in arch and is a bit less stable)

You can try a desktop environment like KDE, since has widgets, so Kubuntu would be a choice, or Manjaro KDE, or PopOS with KDE. But GNOME offers customization like Windows too with something like DashToPanel
 

Hi, Dell usually tends to have supported ACPI because of their XPS developer version which comes out with Ubuntu pre-installed, so you won't have any problems with the backlight, sleep, etc...

As for external drawing screen tablet, usually depends from the availability of the drivers, I got a simple Huion for playing osu, and it works. Wacom should have native support too, its something you can check with Google.

Davinci resolve has a native linux version and is easy to install, has a windows-like setup, but unlike windows, it doesn't support H264 video playback for some reason, so you will need to encode in HEVC or something else, I don't know the details

Any DX11 game is likely to run, except the one with EAC which are something currently unsupported with wine atm which are currently in development with Valve for a solution

As for customization, every linux distro lets you do that

Speaking of safety, viruses are less prone to attack you due to linux being less used in desktops and also because of the package manager, as for hacks/vulnerabilities, as long you update your system regularly, there are no issues compared with WIndows 10 automatic updates, as for privacy, some distros like ubuntu tend to send a minimal quantity of data compared to Windows.

Wine should be capable of running Windows programs, but has to be compatible. C# ones tend to be the most supported

As for the distro, you may choose the one you like, that should have all you need, but if you are unsure choose the most updated one just to be sure to have more drivers for your peripherals you want to run, like Ubuntu 19.04 or PopOS, or Manjaro Linux (Which has a slighly harder learning curve as it's based in arch and is a bit less stable)

You can try a desktop environment like KDE, since has widgets, so Kubuntu would be a choice, or Manjaro KDE, or PopOS with KDE. But GNOME offers customization like Windows too with something like DashToPanel
 

because you totally can't run firefox on a raspberry pi using Linux. 
 
oh wait... 

I'm not 100% sure, but my supposition since I don't know how they pick this data, and assuming it's via browser, they could have decided to include even undetected platforms as "unknown"

Which can be obtainable by using browsers with some privacy extensions which presumably hides the user agent OS data, or again also by phone browsers who have "desktop mode" enabled, which again changes the user agent (which shows as a Desktop OS iOS or Android for example, so those may be put in there as well)

That's the only way I could explain this

Imo they are not that comparable

Since this is exclusively an issue with Windows 3rd party drivers, and in those systems (BSD, MacOS and Linux) the driver release are completely different.

First of all, the linux mainline kernel drivers require the code to complain to some standards (and for a reason) and FreeBSD follows a similar line, MacOS too

Second, Windows drivers do not break ABI that frequently, while on those unix-systems drivers need to be recompiled for every kernel build (and linux drivers are open source, so pretty easy to port for eventual ABI changes thus causing not issues with that, but they still have to be recompiled anyway by design), that means windows drivers are retro compatible (and can ALSO be installed on later versions of the OS), and could be installed when they shouldn't

The only to blame here are 3rd developers, and in a small quantity Microsoft, which imo should require stricter controls and a sort of certification for those drivers to be installed with quality standards, and stricter OS requirements (Not every windows 8 drivers will work on 10 and will just cause issues)

Imo they are not that comparable

Since this is exclusively an issue with Windows 3rd party drivers, and in those systems (BSD, MacOS and Linux) the driver release are completely different.

First of all, the linux mainline kernel drivers require the code to complain to some standards (and for a reason) and FreeBSD follows a similar line, MacOS too

Second, Windows drivers do not break ABI that frequently, while on those unix-systems drivers need to be recompiled for every kernel build (and linux drivers are open source, so pretty easy to port for eventual ABI changes thus causing not issues with that, but they still have to be recompiled anyway by design), that means windows drivers are retro compatible (and can ALSO be installed on later versions of the OS), and could be installed when they shouldn't

The only to blame here are 3rd developers, and in a small quantity Microsoft, which imo should require stricter controls and a sort of certification for those drivers to be installed with quality standards, and stricter OS requirements (Not every windows 8 drivers will work on 10 and will just cause issues)

It's the exact same architecture with a 100mhz clock speed increase and nothing else. Explain exactly how it's supposed to perform 8% better.

Most AV software are heavily criticized for not following Microsoft recommendations for many things and violate many fundamental principles of 3rd party software kernel integration. This is why it's so common for AV software to break with updates and OS upgrades and why it's specifically mentioned, along with drivers, to make sure you have updated before doing such updates etc.
 
Microsoft simply cannot test every application out there, no matter how popular it may be. Follow the proper guidelines and this won't happen and it's the responsibility of those companies to test and validate their software not Microsoft's. This sort of thing shouldn't happen with general updates like this.
 
Edit:
If I remember correctly Symantec caused a privileged execution exploit a few years back, Windows Defender recently too. If you want to exploit a system look at AV software, if a system is going to break it's probably AV software. It's the digital double edge sword.

As someone who works in the computer repair field, I find it very relevant.  I realize I'm not the majority, still it is some useful information.

so in other word, linux doesn't really offer any much better performance in gaming and a pain in the arese to set up to do the things you need it to do so you're better off just sticking to what ever you're using unless you have bunch of spare time to trouble shoots stuff. 

PS not really saying you are wrong, just talking from a perspective of a person who couldn't be bothered to switch to a whole new OS, hence my original comment

Will it make my life any easier ? No? .......then no.. i was answering the OP. 

Mhh honestly no but it depends, you can use Linux without the need of a terminal if you want, or you can learn how to use it by just following bash tutorials which can be done also on macos for example

If we look at demographic of languages used most on the site we do not see much glimpse of windows only platform languages. With the big microsoft language called C# being third most talked languages on the platform the Linux side is very strong. To me this relate to my work experience where i have .Net devs and they do prefer Linux for daily use but they use the tool that make it easier for them to bring the client projects to term. I am not surprised by this number. It does match very good what my teams opinions are on the subject.
 
Currently the top 20 most actives language/platforms are :
Javascript : 1.79 million
Java : 1.53 million
C# : 1.30 million
PHP : 1.27 million
Android : 1.18 million
Python : 1.14 million
jQuery : 950k
html : 816k
C++ : 613k
ios : 595k
css : 581k
mysql :  556k
sql : 487k
asp.net : 344k
ruby : 305k
C : 300k
 
Javascript and Python skyrocketed in very-very short time. Except IOS, C# and asp.net they are all cross platform
(note C# do not include .net core which is cross platform yes but is far from making a top 30 as it has its own section)
 
Nice to see the top 20 is 85% cross platform. Dev can more than ever choose their favorite platform and are less and less tied to a specific one.

Not only two forks, but also gnome didn't supported shell extensions until then, you can make exactly it look the same as Windows without using some extensions like DashToPanel, which is used preinstalled in Solus for example or can be installed later in other distros

 
 
I found gnome features decently for 2019 considering how it integrates Google drive in the file manager for example (gvfs)
 

Hi, Dell usually tends to have supported ACPI because of their XPS developer version which comes out with Ubuntu pre-installed, so you won't have any problems with the backlight, sleep, etc...

As for external drawing screen tablet, usually depends from the availability of the drivers, I got a simple Huion for playing osu, and it works. Wacom should have native support too, its something you can check with Google.

Davinci resolve has a native linux version and is easy to install, has a windows-like setup, but unlike windows, it doesn't support H264 video playback for some reason, so you will need to encode in HEVC or something else, I don't know the details

Any DX11 game is likely to run, except the one with EAC which are something currently unsupported with wine atm which are currently in development with Valve for a solution

As for customization, every linux distro lets you do that

Speaking of safety, viruses are less prone to attack you due to linux being less used in desktops and also because of the package manager, as for hacks/vulnerabilities, as long you update your system regularly, there are no issues compared with WIndows 10 automatic updates, as for privacy, some distros like ubuntu tend to send a minimal quantity of data compared to Windows.

Wine should be capable of running Windows programs, but has to be compatible. C# ones tend to be the most supported

As for the distro, you may choose the one you like, that should have all you need, but if you are unsure choose the most updated one just to be sure to have more drivers for your peripherals you want to run, like Ubuntu 19.04 or PopOS, or Manjaro Linux (Which has a slighly harder learning curve as it's based in arch and is a bit less stable)

You can try a desktop environment like KDE, since has widgets, so Kubuntu would be a choice, or Manjaro KDE, or PopOS with KDE. But GNOME offers customization like Windows too with something like DashToPanel
 

Not only two forks, but also gnome didn't supported shell extensions until then, you can make exactly it look the same as Windows without using some extensions like DashToPanel, which is used preinstalled in Solus for example or can be installed later in other distros

 
 
I found gnome features decently for 2019 considering how it integrates Google drive in the file manager for example (gvfs)
 

Hi, Dell usually tends to have supported ACPI because of their XPS developer version which comes out with Ubuntu pre-installed, so you won't have any problems with the backlight, sleep, etc...

As for external drawing screen tablet, usually depends from the availability of the drivers, I got a simple Huion for playing osu, and it works. Wacom should have native support too, its something you can check with Google.

Davinci resolve has a native linux version and is easy to install, has a windows-like setup, but unlike windows, it doesn't support H264 video playback for some reason, so you will need to encode in HEVC or something else, I don't know the details

Any DX11 game is likely to run, except the one with EAC which are something currently unsupported with wine atm which are currently in development with Valve for a solution

As for customization, every linux distro lets you do that

Speaking of safety, viruses are less prone to attack you due to linux being less used in desktops and also because of the package manager, as for hacks/vulnerabilities, as long you update your system regularly, there are no issues compared with WIndows 10 automatic updates, as for privacy, some distros like ubuntu tend to send a minimal quantity of data compared to Windows.

Wine should be capable of running Windows programs, but has to be compatible. C# ones tend to be the most supported

As for the distro, you may choose the one you like, that should have all you need, but if you are unsure choose the most updated one just to be sure to have more drivers for your peripherals you want to run, like Ubuntu 19.04 or PopOS, or Manjaro Linux (Which has a slighly harder learning curve as it's based in arch and is a bit less stable)

You can try a desktop environment like KDE, since has widgets, so Kubuntu would be a choice, or Manjaro KDE, or PopOS with KDE. But GNOME offers customization like Windows too with something like DashToPanel
 

Hi, Dell usually tends to have supported ACPI because of their XPS developer version which comes out with Ubuntu pre-installed, so you won't have any problems with the backlight, sleep, etc...

As for external drawing screen tablet, usually depends from the availability of the drivers, I got a simple Huion for playing osu, and it works. Wacom should have native support too, its something you can check with Google.

Davinci resolve has a native linux version and is easy to install, has a windows-like setup, but unlike windows, it doesn't support H264 video playback for some reason, so you will need to encode in HEVC or something else, I don't know the details

Any DX11 game is likely to run, except the one with EAC which are something currently unsupported with wine atm which are currently in development with Valve for a solution

As for customization, every linux distro lets you do that

Speaking of safety, viruses are less prone to attack you due to linux being less used in desktops and also because of the package manager, as for hacks/vulnerabilities, as long you update your system regularly, there are no issues compared with WIndows 10 automatic updates, as for privacy, some distros like ubuntu tend to send a minimal quantity of data compared to Windows.

Wine should be capable of running Windows programs, but has to be compatible. C# ones tend to be the most supported

As for the distro, you may choose the one you like, that should have all you need, but if you are unsure choose the most updated one just to be sure to have more drivers for your peripherals you want to run, like Ubuntu 19.04 or PopOS, or Manjaro Linux (Which has a slighly harder learning curve as it's based in arch and is a bit less stable)

You can try a desktop environment like KDE, since has widgets, so Kubuntu would be a choice, or Manjaro KDE, or PopOS with KDE. But GNOME offers customization like Windows too with something like DashToPanel
 

Take a look at ProtonDB and Lutris websites, they should tell you if you can get the games running. I had the same experience with my first test back in December but now pretty much my entire 100 something games library works
 

I use Linux from something like ...11 years?

I never got to use the open source graphics editing on it too, It's just too much for me to learn new things, and for the one who don't work the same as I used to on Photoshop (or even work better)
I tried Krita, KDEnlive, Olive, GIMP, Pinta, but nothing satisfied me for everything (except some very basic editings)

I am just a bit frustrated because you require to use wine to get partial Photoshop functionality for example, but even though they run a bit slowly and I always preferred dual booting for that

I sincerely hope to see full Wine compatibility in the future, or native proprietary releases or something like Paint.NET or Adobe suite

Not everything is that efficient though, pulseaudio and alsa are a truly nightmare by design and often cause issues, and driver incompatibilities
 
But it's definitely enjoyable when it just works