SapphironZA

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SapphironZA,

It’s also a reflection of how much money you will be spending on each ecosystem

SapphironZA,

I don’t know Blender, but from experience I found that Manjaro/arch is a bit too bleeding edge for production use. Especially when it comes to non-gaming graphics. I experienced a lot of problems with Manjaro and GPU acceleration in video editing suites. All got solved when I switched to Linux Mint.

Similarly Zorin OS 17 has been good to me. I really like their approach to the Gnome UI (i.e. they kept the newest tech, and removed the space wasting UI components.

The Ubuntu based distros typically have fewer bugs as they typically have an older base.

Fedora is also a decent middle ground.

I would suggest logging a ticket or forum post with Blender on this. It could be a blender bug or a graphics bug, but they would be the best people to advise.

SapphironZA,

I would favour an AMD Ryzen 7000 based laptop. Much better battery life than Intel and better graphics performance.

Lenovo ThinkPad T and P series are excellent build quality.

Asus Zenbooks or Expertbooks with OLED screens are also excellent. Displays are on par, or superior to Macbooks. Excellent colour accuracy.

Make sure you get something with at least 16GB of Ram, or 32GB if available.

SapphironZA,

Everything is improved if you put a cross guard on it.

SapphironZA,

DRM only affects paying customers. It plays no role in effectively combatting piracy.

Only good service and good pricing is effective against piracy.

SapphironZA,

Apartheid, of a sort yes.

Genocide, not even close.

Oppression and occupational yes

SapphironZA,

You are what you eat after all.

SapphironZA,

Correct, Hershey’s is not for human consumption.

It was the worst thing about my holiday in America. The chocolate is universally terrible. Way too sweet, rough texture and chemical taste to the dairy content (something in the milk used).

SapphironZA,

Artists are now fighting back against AI stealing their works

npr.org/…/new-tools-help-artists-fight-ai-by-dire….

SapphironZA,

If you should shout “happy holidays” in front of that house, it all just catches fire instantly.

Thoughts and prayers for the family loving under such dangerous circumstances.

SapphironZA,

Love it!

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

SapphironZA,

Half of India tech industry still runs on windows 7.

SapphironZA,

And the choices of others.

SapphironZA,

The sluggishness you experienced has a lot to do with Ubuntu itself. At its base it’s a very good OS, but canonical is messing up on the details.

Ubuntu derivatives like Linux Mint or PopOS have spent a lot of time resolving this. They perform very well for most and have got excellent stability because their software stack is a little older.

For gaming, fedora is probably the base OS that most prefer at the moment. It’s at a good balance point of stability the latest tech.

The other option if you want to go more bleeding edge is Manjaro, but expect some things to break on occasion.

SapphironZA,

Mint is a really good distro for people coming from windows 7 UI wise.

They also ripped out Snaps, which is half the performance problems with Ubuntu

SapphironZA,

Year of the Steamdeck. Praise Gaben!

SapphironZA,

I found a lot of the same. For me I resolved this by changing a few things.

  1. Abandon KDE plasma and Gnome.
  2. Avoid Snaps like the plague.

Linux mint Cinnamon draws 5w on idle only laptop. Ubuntu stock draws 8w. Manjaro plasma uses around 7w.

SapphironZA,

I suspect that packaging has a lot to do with it. I also value power draw as a better metric for determining efficiency compared to RAM usage.

SapphironZA,

I think the issue is large organizations are inefficient and inflexible, be they government or corporates.

You want small lean groups with a lot of autonomy.

SapphironZA,

Yep, the US government used to break up monopolies and it greatly benefitted the boomers.

SapphironZA,

Exactly. We could make those charges go away, if you do me a favour.

SapphironZA,

But they certainly get fucked there.

SapphironZA,

Agree on this. Servethehome on YouTube has a series on different 1 litre PCs they review in detail.

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But is it a 24 house service if it’s only staffed by a chat bot?

SapphironZA,

The fact that the processes are so different, is part of the problem. Developers need to spend the same effort 3 or 4 times.

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