They both have 16GB RAM.

The one with Windows 10 has a i5 7600k and GTX1060

The one with Windows 11 has a i7 7700k and GTX1080

Both with nvme ssd storage samsung evo (cant remember which exactly). The 7600k machine even has hdds and ssds via sata extra.

The only reason I’m on 10 with my main pc is because the 7th gen intel in there isn’t compatible with win11. I have another pc that is 7th gen, which I put windows 11 on and there is just something weird about it. When I do anything on that machine it doesn’t do it immediately, it sits for a few seconds before actions are done. Really aggravating. Clicking on a program on the taskbar takes a few seconds before it opens. File explorer, firefox browser, settings pane, … Once programs are running it’s fine to use said programs, but I wonder what they did to make it feel this way.

I have Linux on both machines as primary OS and they are super snappy, it’s not the hardware.

Start it is

If your work requires Windows, then use Windows. Switch to Linux when everything you need is available on it. If alternatives don’t exist, then that’s it.

I thought it was your son’s computer, not a shared one

Why would your wife need to be convinced?

Number one reason why I don’t like all the analog broadcasts and use of frequencies are slowly being killed off around here.

DOGE and…?

I play a Quake 2 mod that converts it to a ww2 game and it’s as ugly as you can expect for a game from before the turn of the century. Ray tracing in this game is short of magic. No assets changed, and it makes it look so good, it’s unbelievable.

Of course sometimes we also play this game in software mode which doesn’t even colored lighting, just pure rendering on the CPU. So grainy…

You either pay with money or your data. This clearly shows the value of your data.

I don’t think it reflects, it’s just slightly transparent and the object extends under the surface.

In those days, when you entered a room in a game that had very shiny tiles that reflected the room, it was simply a copy of the room, upside down and flipped, and the floors were transparent. It created the illusion of reflection.

I think half life 2 had the first water that amazed me.

KiwiIRC is a web based IRC client. Does not have voice chat afaik, but since it’s IRC it’s very lightweight and had a low entry barrier.

irssi for cli, hexchat for gui

Alternatively mumble and murmur, but the setup is more elaborate.

I just upgraded to the 7700k 😂

Goddamnit

Amount of store apps on my phone: zero.

My wife has an app that is basically a card holder. Instead of pulling out a loyalty card, she pulls up the one app that has all of them scanned/copied. It’s great.

ext4

It’s a root fs for an ARM device. I can’t simply copy the files over.