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Meanwhile, software designed by actual charities tends to perform better...

I have never failed to be disappointed by Microsoft products.

I'm not particularly hardcore; I simply want my computer to work.

I'm referring to Linux. Windows isn't an operating system; it's a marketing device.

The Linux folks will take a little while yet to reverse-engineer the GPU without documentation.

The reason you can't run other OS's on the M1's is because Apple hasn't released specifications for the GPU yet.

If Apple would do this, so that folks could run Linux on them, I might buy one....

Interesting.

I have a D500 and Z6 and I put them somewhat through hell. Both have been absolute workhorses -- except the Z6 broke when I dropped it onto a hard surface from 130cm, and the D500's...

It runs whatever you install on it.

Mine runs Linux, for instance.

Mine is not. You can hear the fans with the GPU and CPU at full frequency and load, of course, but mine is not loud.

The G14 and G15 (Asus models) are very professional looking. I use one as a professor in my classes. They aren't as rugged as Dell XPS's, but they are great machines and mine has been a workhorse...

Check out Darktable. The interface can be a little intimidating just because of how *many* different tools there are, but the results are quite good, and critically you don't have to use anywhere...

@Raist3d, I'm curious why that is. I've noticed that on the code I care most about right now (which is multicore friendly but doesn't use AVX heavily), there isn't that much difference between 15W...

Both of them will perform very very well, to the point where you should decide based on other factors.

@unhappymeal

You can tune the power budget of Ryzens in detail. It turns out that the difference between Ryzen at 16W and Ryzen at 35W isn't that big.

This is easy to test, too, since there are...

You can install Linux on them since Windows sucks, y'know.

The only time I reboot my linux system is when there's a security critical kernel update...

@MinAz

These claims are absolutely credible. The eight-core Ryzen 3 CPU in the G14 is exceptionally fast. Some tests (at...

@unhappymeal

It is fantastic to have built-in support for Linux tools. This is why I run Linux. :)

I know the display on the 2021 G14 is much better than the 2020 G14 that I have. It's one of the few weak points of this machine.

When you buy a computer, you buy some hardware. It comes with software; you are free to run other software on it.

This isn't overclocking or doing anything nuts. (I have never overclocked a...

It's much prettier.

**looks at his G14 running KDE**