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Looks Ok to me. In fact, it looks better than my desktop lol. I'm currently running a Ryzen 5 3600X and a GTX 1660 Ti and 32GB of Ram, which was a great upgrade for me considering what I had before. I think you should be good to go. Upgrading the ram is a good idea too.
Looks Ok to me. In fact, it looks better than my desktop lol. I'm currently running a Ryzen 5 3600X and a GTX 1660 Ti and 32GB of Ram, which was a great upgrade for me considering what I had before. I think you should be good to go. Upgrading the ram is a good idea too.
Having 64Gb of RAM is great. When I brought my desktop back in 2019, I had 32gb - but one of the upgrades I did a few years ago was to go to 64Gb (and more hard drive space and RTX 3060 graphic card). Running an i7-9700 chip. Not sure when I'll get my new desktop (as been thinking about). Want something with more 8 cores. Also looking getting 128gb of RAM for the new system (I make 3d art - so I need a power computer)
Yeah, you can never have enough Ram. Makes everything run smoother in general. When I had my old computer, I was maxed out at 8GB and it was painful. Felt like I was right at the limit for certain things and I'd often get glitches due to programs always needing more. And when you're living on the edge like that, any major program updates, such as the major Steam update last year, made me nervous.
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.
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Linux Mint 22.0 has been released, as usual it is available with the Cinnamom, Mate and Xfce desktop environments, Kernel version is 6.8.
Haven't installed it yet, will do so when I have the time.
I don't know if this is a bug or glitch but hitting ctrl+r in file explorer in windows 11 refreshes the window but also sometimes reveals a menu bar with options such as file and view like the old style file explorer. It doesn't seem to happen all the time and I am not sure what is triggering it.
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.
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Linux Mint 22.0 has been released, as usual it is available with the Cinnamon, Mate and Xfce desktop environments, Kernel version is 6.8.
Haven't installed it yet, will do so when I have the time.
I daily drive LMDE on my desktop, but I have regular Mint on my laptop. Unfortunately, the upgrade from 21.3 to 22 wildly borked, and after recovering everything halfway important from it with a live USB, I installed 22 MATE. I've never given MATE any love, and after configuring the panels to recreate the old GNOME 2 layout (since MATE is a descendant of GNOME 2) it's quite nice. Sometimes I'll switch the window manager over to Compiz just to get the wild effects like the Desktop Box.
I had a copy of Haiku that I tried to install on an old Acer laptop but almost every time I ended up with a screen and a giant padlock in the center with error message saying basically that I can't install this.
I daily drive LMDE on my desktop, but I have regular Mint on my laptop. Unfortunately, the upgrade from 21.3 to 22 wildly borked, and after recovering everything halfway important from it with a live USB, I installed 22 MATE. I've never given MATE any love, and after configuring the panels to recreate the old GNOME 2 layout (since MATE is a descendant of GNOME 2) it's quite nice. Sometimes I'll switch the window manager over to Compiz just to get the wild effects like the Desktop Box.
Updates from main versions always have been iffy, point releases never gave me problems but going from 21.x to 22.x will mean I'll reinstall the machines one by one, there's no hurry with it since 21.x will be supported until 2027.
Ouch, another hit to IFS (Intel Foundary Services) credibility if their own Design Division won't use 20A and will likely go with TSMC.
So much for trying to deliver five nodes in four years
And if Intel's 18A Process Node was sooo good, why can't ArrowLake go on 18A?
Surely they didn't plan a design ONLY on 20A, and not have 18A design ready to go?
The fact that their own Design Team isn't using their own foundary speaks volumes.
Not surprised given the massive instability issues of Intel's own making.
The fact that they have to RMA so many units for DIY, OEM's, Enterprise customers, etc.
OUCH!
Intel has been on the DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) since the 1990's. Now it's getting removed for its horrible stock performance.
For the first time in 30 years, Intel's market capitalization has fallen below $100 billion, marking a significant drop from its peak in 2000.
This year alone Intel's stock has plummeted nearly 60% and the company is now the poorest performer in the prestigious DJIA index.
After the company announced a $1.6 billion loss for the second quarter its stock price dropped further to the lowest level among the index's constituents, prompting analysts to suggest that its removal is likely imminent.
Intel finds itself in a difficult position and may spin off the manufacturing division.
They should've spun it off years ago. But now it's not worth nearly as much as it used to be.
But tough times comes with tough calls.
If Pat Gelsinger is smart, sell off the Fabs, sell off Altera, stop expanding your Fabs at such a ridiculous rate.
You're literally spending yourself into oblivion, especially when you got the DUMB idea to rush out the 13th / 14th gen and look what you did to yourself.
The Instability issues along with numerous class action lawsuits that are coming your way is going to kill Intel.
Now excessive voltages are frying their own ring-buses gradually in the short term. That's the leading theory that is.
We're talking > 1.5 V to the Ring Bus so that the P+E cores can be OCed right out of the factory to beat AMD's Zen 4
Low & Behold, MASSIVE Crashes & Blue Screens to the customer in < 1-2 years depending on how lucky you were.
The Stories leaked from inside were that Intel Engineers were high fiving themselves for coming up with something so fast to counter Zen 4.
How Smart & Awesome Intel Engineers was, thinking they did something radical/amazing.
Now that they're costing Intel ALOT of $$$ in RMA, I'm sure the higher ups are looking for heads to roll for doing something so dumb.
But Hindsight is 20/20, it's TOO late now. The liabilities that they've caused.
Intel REFUSES to do a Product Recall, knowing what other legal liabilities that would incur, so they just decided to extend the Warranty just enough, to avoid trouble.
We'll see how that works out for them, I think it's going to BITE THEM in the ARSE. CPU's are supposed to have ~15+ years of longevity when lightly to no OC.
You might as well consider 13th/14th gen DEAD for 2nd hand market, NOBODY wants to touch it.
Also, IFS had Rust/Oxidation issues in their fabs, and they HID that from the customers.
I had to look up leaks to even find the time frame of exactly when it happened, and at what fab.
The fact that they hid that from the public is also causing MAJOR headaches.
Intel originally blames the MoBo vendors for "Default OCing" the Intel CPU's, but that's been normal behavior for decades.
When it turns out badly for Intel, they threw their MoBo vendors partners under the bus and blamed them.
Now excessive voltages are frying their own ring-buses gradually in the short term. That's the leading theory that is.
We're talking > 1.5 V to the Ring Bus so that the P+E cores can be OCed right out of the factory to beat Zen 4
Low & Behold, MASSIVE Crashes & Blue Screens to the customer in < 1-2 years depending on how lucky you were.
The Stories leaked from inside were that Intel Engineers were high fiving themselves for coming up with something so fast to counter Zen 4.
How Smart & Awesome Intel Engineers was, thinking they did something radical/amazing.
Now that they're costing Intel ALOT of $$$ in RMA, I'm sure the higher ups are looking for heads to roll for doing something so dumb.
But Hindsight is 20/20, it's TOO late now. The liabilities that they've caused.
Intel REFUSES to do a Product Recall, knowing what other legal liabilities that would incur, so they just decided to extend the Warranty just enough, to avoid trouble.
We'll see how that works out for them, I think it's going to BITE THEM in the ARSE. CPU's are supposed to have ~15+ years of longevity when lightly to no OC.
Also, IFS had Rust/Oxidation issues in their fabs, and they HID that from the customers.
I had to look up leaks to even find the time frame of exactly when it happened, and at what fab.
The fact that they hid that from the public is also causing MAJOR headaches.
Intel originally blames the MoBo vendors for "Default OCing" the Intel CPU's, but that's been normal behavior for decades.
When it turns out badly for Intel, they threw their MoBo vendors partners under the bus and blamed them.
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