marcosmoutta

Trying to choose between two identical laptops with different processors. Obviously the Ryzen 7 is faster, but perhaps I'll have better thermals with the Ryzen 5? Also, I found out that maybe the iGPU in the Ryzen 5 is superior to the one in the Ryzen 7. Can someone confirm that?

I'll gladly use the terminal if there's a way to make it have the same commands as DOS.

But like... I don't have a macintosh

doesnt this mean I have to boot windows so I can use linux? I only use linux because it's faster, less buggy and doesnt force updates down my throat. booting windows first beats the point

not cheap, the pi 400 (atari pi?) + shipping is over half minimum wage here . thanks but I'd rather just dual boot, I need the portability of a notebook computer and mine comes with windows 10 (acceptable for gaming if I heck it a lot) I'll get the pi ST when it comes out tho

Sorry for the gigantic quote, I'm on my mom's phone. I gave mint a fair try and it was seriously flawed. It ended up corrupting and I installed something else. It was either 19 or 20, in fact, I think it updated from 19 to 20 while I was using it. What GUI does cinnamon use? Many here recommended opensuse leap, imma give it a fair shot, but have to pick a gui and don't really know the difference between kde and xfce (I hate gnome tho)

Gnome, KDE or Xfce? (also, perhaps this question is silly and I don't have to choose given how it defaults to gnome? idk if it defaults to gnome)

I've been using Windows 7 for as long as I've been using linux and I SWEAR, I have NEVER seen ANY bugs. Am I lucky? Or biased maybe? I thought service pack 1 made it bug free

EDIT: I have decided to go with opensuse using xfce. Thanks to everyone who helped me. It's not too bad. Just wish the search bar searched for files instead of just apps. I've been daily driving linux since 2013. I've tried ubuntu, debian, mint, puppylinux, all those kubuntu lubuntu xubuntu anomalies, and so much more. It sucks ass. And I'm not gonna sit here and pretend it doesn't, I just use it because it sucks less ass than windows 8 onwards. I keep having to go back to windows 7 when I need reliability because it just works. And after seeing the latest video on the main Linus channel, I feel VINDICATED. My requirements for a distro are: 1-Stability. I currently have ubuntu installed and even it has this stupid little bug that prevents me from opening tabs from the tray if I don't triple click them. Every distro I try has bugs. Which is ok, but I seek a lesser amount. 2-Package manager. I never learned how to compile programs or manually install them because I don't want to. It's hard. I want to know what distro has the best, most well mantained gui based program installer. Sometimes I need to use software like paint.net and when I realize there's no linux version, I have to go looking for alternatives on the program downloader store thing. More than half of the programs doesn't even open, and the ones that do are awful. 3-Not many updates. All updates do is break things. So far, it has always gone like: I install a distro, get some programs running, and as soon as the updates start it begins to break things. So, is there a distro that fits these requirements?

LEARN WHAT SON? Learn how to install it? Learn how to use the terminal? For real, am I the ass? I just wanted you to say "this" so I could tell you

So, I had to update to windows 10 because software compatibility. I burned the official 2015 iso to a usb stick and did the thing. But, my software needs windows to be updated, WHICH IT REFUSES TO DO. Windows update is stuck at 0% downloading and I'm getting desperate. Could you, kind user, please direct me either to a fix or an iso of windows 10 that is already updated if that makes more sense? Thanks!

How does one learn linux I guess if you want to learn how the kernel works you can read up on that but what does this question even mean

It's pretty easy, just ground them together right? Also yeah, thanks for the advice, I might go for a 1050 if it's cheap enough then

If it was as easy as that. why wouldn't they make a few little concessions and label it as 40 watts? is it a deal with psu makers? (I really don't doubt it, companies like money)

That... sounds like a bad idea, won't that limit its performance significantly? I'll pay more for something I can't use