Sounds like we're about to get a lot more Linux users!

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@malwareminigun I thought we weren't comparing discreet GPUs for the obvious reason mentioned above? A 6700XT is not even on the same scale as a NPU... A proper comparison would be like running it on a modern Ryzen chip's built-in GPU.

I'll accept the point on meteor lake, though I'm not sure if they're at the same level even then

Honestly, I suppose it's probably, more than anything else, to free up the GPU so it won't impact gaming or force them to pause the data collection while the GPU is in heavy use. I kind of added edits to that effect, but I'll go all out and say outright that it may be that more than anything else. This way even if you're in a game there is essentially hardware dedicated to doing this stuff in the background that barely impacts anything else in the system.

[dennisqr@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart hopefully, I'm not gonna run on my hardware, that's for sure

[malwareminigun@infosec.exchange]

@nazokiyoubinbou I'm citing this for the IGP numbers being substantially higher. That a DGP is another factor of three or more is expected but not the main point here.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@malwareminigun Alright, well, I'm assuming that this means you agree to the answer to the question then.

[viralobscurity@mstdn.social]

@bmoreinis @mttaggart @catsalad Luckily there are more Linux distros out there than Ubuntu that will not so easily roll over to the amerikan bullshit

Ubuntu has not been the best desktop option for a long time so if they want to be complicit then people will go elsewhere

[cblte@nrw.social]

@mttaggart @BjoernBeck So we are again having Microsoft producing a lot of pc garbage with this version of windows. Oh boy.

[dazo@infosec.exchange]

@bweller @bmoreinis @mttaggart @catsalad

Well, there are other Linux distributions who won't care what California demands.

[bweller@mstdn.social]

@dazo i hope so

@bmoreinis @mttaggart @catsalad

[bmoreinis@federated.press]

@dazo @bweller @mttaggart @catsalad I know.... but I manage a mutual aid team service that puts Mint on old donated devices and trains and supports users who need them, is all. It's what folks know. <sigh>

[cppguy@infosec.space]

@mttaggart

Let's be kind to them, everyone. We were all Linux newbies once!

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mttaggart Great update, from something that nobody wants right now to something that nobody wants to see at a distance in a whole lifetime.
Microslop marketing must had some insight by the armageddon guys.

[pl@cosocial.ca]

@mttaggart seriously someone should try to vibe code a Linux distro just to see how much better it would be compared to Windows

[davecb@hachyderm.io]

@mttaggart Re: Microsoft 12
After a company stops growing they need to do something else, to keep the profits increasing. Often that can be bad for their customers:

Grow or Die

For its whole life, Amazon faced a classic capacity planning problem that everyone has. You need to have many machines at the busy time of the year, but they will lie idle the rest of the year. While growing rapidly, your answer is easy: arrange to buy the needed machines as late as possible, so…

This Blog has No Leaves (leaflessca.wordpress.com)

[ppb1701@ppb.social]

@mttaggart that could be a hard sale especially if they repeat win 11 up min required hardware given AI companies are basically buying up all the ram, etc they can get a hold of jacking the prices up for the rest of us. And then there is the last two years of absolute disaster patch day after another with more breaking or even bricking machines than not...

[rpsu@mas.to]

@tess @mttaggart YearOfLinuxDesktop_updated-final _FINAL_v1.8.exe

[ditol@freiburg.social]

@bweller
Just a correction: Shrimp Jesus fucking Christ.
@bmoreinis @mttaggart @catsalad

[kaaswe@swecyb.com]

@mttaggart
I remember Microsoft bragging hard that Windows 10 was the last version to be shipped ever. New features were supposed to come as regular updates.

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

Oh cool PCWorld just printed lies/slop I guess.

No, an AI-focused "Windows 12" is not coming this year — here's the plan

A new report has caught the internet's attention, claiming that Windows 12 is coming this year and will be a modular, AI-powered OS. Here's why that's wrong.

Windows Central (www.windowscentral.com)

[tehstu@hachyderm.io]

@crackhappy @bweller @bmoreinis @mttaggart @catsalad Ubuntu said that's an open list discussion, not commentary from the developers or anything official. It's not instant anything, fortunately.

[winterknight1337@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart welp. Guess I get to remove them from ye olde RSS feed.