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Ya, they really have a lot of the kinks worked out. Fedora + AMD GPU is as close to "it just works" as you can get on linux desktop at the moment. You are not on a laptop but Fedora has made linux on most laptops relatively painless which has never been the case in the past.

Kinda sorta? Its been my experience that it generally is only ~1 ish degree difference between the pad and paste until you get into high wattage chips, which is just not the case in laptops where even a high end cpu is only around 45watt TDP. It also depends on the paste. The benefit is you...

I used to love trying different distros and see how they do things. I have got to the point where I just want my stuff to work reliably, have rock solid stability, and require me to put in as little effort as possible for setup and maintenance. My threadripper desktop has been running MX linux...

You can get an m1 mac mini for $750 and probably be good until he is in the triple digits.

Honestly get a few carbonaut pads, setup a small undervolt and call it a day. I did that with my 10750h and 2070 super and it made a world of difference. https://www.amazon.com/Thermal-Grizzly-Carbonaut-Pad-0-2/dp/B07PHN2ZNY

For a gaming laptop operated by a non power user, I would suggest pop os. Honestly most / all of the configuration and hybrid graphics stuff has already been done for you out of the box. All you have to do is run updates and install your games.

Max Resolution (HDMI)‡4096@2304@24Hz Max Resolution (DP)‡3840x2160@60Hz Max Resolution (eDP - Integrated Flat Panel)‡3840x2160@60Hz I don't think you will have a problem. Servers do not need monitors anyway :p

I think I am wrong. For some reason I was thinking the m series didnt have the VT-x stuff for LAHF/SAHF but apparently all post sandy bridge cpu's have it. No TPM 2.0 so no server 2022. That 1.2Ghz base clock is going to be a real kick in the peter, but it should still run. Nice find btw...

I had one of those briefly. They are bullet proof but real dogs in the performance department. What version of server are you going to run? I know it doesn't meet the requirements for windows server 2019+ but would probably run 2012R2

Ya, I have a surface pro 6, but I setup my brothers company with surface pro 7's and they are not really any better. I don't have experience with the new ones that just came out, but unless its radically different I wouldn't hold my breath.

You can use the $200 microsoft azure credit and not buy anything.

Not in the real world. I used my surface extensively in college classes taking notes with the pen (which is amazing btw,) web browsing, and word/office apps. If I got 5 hours out of it I was doing fantastic. If you cranked it into performance power mode, you would get < 3 hours.

It does make me wonder if the horror stories of these upgrades is less overblown than I thought. Sample size of one and all that, but still. This was Microsoft's dedicated device operating in its target environment predominantly running Microsoft apps....

Yup, finally died, sorta since it goes to sleep before it dies completely. But got it to reboot and right into windows 11. Crazy

I have the family pretty standardized across the board with Surface Pro 7's and their weird proprietary docks (we run several businesses from our home so this has been great for me tbh!) Well, it was inevitable, yesterday someone clicked on the windows 11 update and unfortunately it did not go...

Larry The right click problem can be solved in the trackpad settings. You can either disable right click completely, or change it to the bottom right corner only (or left corner only). As far as more friction I can confirm that souljers' idea of the protective cover from an ipad does indeed...

Another good eye-candy distro is Deepin which is I believe based on Debian. I used them for a bit and it was really solid.

It does pretty well for the most part. Better than my laptop at the time. If you have the bandwidth (can actually maintain > 20Mb bandwidth) and have lowish latency then the real hangup with shadow is the CPU in many cases. I have had some driver hiccups too, but nothing I couldn't resolve.

Ya, I don't know how true it is but apparently apple is starting to heavily invest in gaming. You could make a fantastic console out of these, but I have no idea what the cost would end up being. Most of the most popular games like WoW, FF14, PoE and others mostly run on mac now so it wouldn't...

I have a friend that does youtube videos and his 4k renders went from just under 40 minutes on the mac pro to less than 5 minutes today (he got the 16" version). To be honest that is jaw dropping, especially when you consider it was on battery... So far the consensus seems to be putting it...

+1 for M1. I have a 13" mbp with m1 and its amazing. Runs circles around the maxed out 2018 mini I had. The only think I truly miss is being able to hook up an egpu, but honestly the graphics performance is just fine. Also, you could turn your old one into a really good HTPC, especially if...

If it could reliably push 4k, you could mount it to the back of a tv and use it as a HTPC. Wireless keyboard/mouse on the coffee table. I believe steam streaming is still a thing, as well as the xbox streaming. There is always shadow as well, which has been pretty good for my purposes when I...

Chrome for the dev tools, Mozilla for the daily driving.

You won't get much argument out of me on that. A Sandy Bridge I7 can check email, surf facebook, and run ms-word with the best of them which covers something like 95% of pc user needs. But I believe the industry standard EOL for consumer desktop hardware is 5-6 years and 3-5 for laptops. Even...

I thought the NSA invented bitcoin for this purpose.. lol

I have to be honest, the TPM thing makes sense to me. When 10 goes EOL, basically all the hardware not compatible will be well beyond EOL anyway.

I have been thinking about it. Since work has transitioned us to entirely macOS and linux I was thinking about replacing my surface pro 5 with a new Ipad pro. Since it can double as a portable second monitor for my macbook pro when I am traveling it is really tempting.

I get it, you are the embodiment of the power user and [H]ardcore stud. The first computer I built for myself was an Epson so believe me, I have been doing this for a long time too and I understand the feeling. But you have to understand that a laptop is a pc, and the very very vast majority...

I don't know what you are talking about. Laptops are somewhere around 66% - 70% of all pc sales... Touch screens are awesome on laptops once you get used to them. I cannot even tell you how many times I have had to clean my macbook pro screen because my instinct had switched to using the...

I think this used to be true, but really just is not anymore. FAR more laptops get sold than desktops and touch screens are awesome on laptops. I have absolutely loved my surface pro once I got used to it. I think they are probably following down apples path and pushing integration. A mid...

This is mostly nonsense. This is like saying because we have been building houses out of pine 2x4's since the 1800's no modern build style will ever be as as strong or versatile as stick frame houses. It is just not true to say because x86 came decades early, no architecture will ever be as...

I never watched Atlantis, but SGU was very good. I liked it better than the original series.

Maybe, but I don't think so. I bet they could get x86 to be as efficient, but I simply don't believe they will be able to get it to be as efficient and as performative at the same time. The primary advantages x86 had was performance and compatibility, but ARM has been consistently gaining...

TBH trying to get any modern OS to run on a 30 year old system is problematic. But you are definitely [H] for trying. That being said, I must disagree overall. We have all known that the shift to ARM was going to eventually happen as a byproduct of the market shift to mobile as the primary...

As a developer I honestly hope Epic wins this, however I really feel that their argument is mostly nonsense. Apple only has something like 20% market share and their store charges virtually identical fees as the other stores. Yes apple is a monopoly of the apple store, but so is microsoft of...

Honestly, I loved my mac laptop from 2003 and as a media machine it was fantastic. That said, I always ended up using either linux or windows for work and never got into the ecosystem. I was issued an m1 macbook pro for work and GD does it blow away the 10750h cpu in my msi laptop. Granted...

Honestly, the dell XPS line has 16:10 screens which is great if you are using the laptop for actual work. Lenovo has jumped on the Linux train and you can buy many of their machines with fedora pre-installed. I would personally go with lenovo because they have the best keyboards, but those xps...

Honestly with these things, you have to be up front with what you want. If you want eye candy and the new car/distro feel you can jump into ubuntu / fedora with the expectation that you are going to have to re-install every 6-9 months. If you want a system you are barely going to change for...

It is only going to get worse as they get more aggressive with the updates. I believe this update that just came out automatically "fixes" any port blocking or other tricks you have deployed to stop any part of the windows update process.

Me too, it was actually a pretty decent solution.