The AMD part is actually the opposite, since AMD drivers on Linux can’t do HDMI 2.1, but NVidia can.

Thats not quite true, you can do HDR with 4k @ 120hz and HDMI 2.0 but you will be limited to 8bits per channel of which will exhibit pronounced chroma banding, specially noticible in skies gradients. If you lower either resoltution or frequency you can get 10bit back too.

HDMI 2.0 can also support 4k 120hz but it will be limited to 4:2:2 chroma subsampling. It’s fine for the typical TV viewing distance and 2x hidpi scaling but sucks for desktop usage, specially at no hidpi scaling.

You can also get a DP 1.4 to HDMI 2.1 adapter and get full HDR 10bit color and 4:4:4 chroma 4k@120hz at the same time, no problem. The trouble is usually VRR, which tends to be very finicky or not work at al… :(

I have a x220 that fell 1 meter lid first (and open) on the floor and… all I got was a crack on one of the posts inside the lid. Still fine to this day, in fact, still my number one laptop lol.

Sure, but Google has no control over any forks of Chromium. They can’t control Edge, or Brave, or Vivaldi

Sorry but that’s not how it goes, Google can exert control on forks by increasing the difficulty of maintaining changes. The forks have a vested interest in staying compatible with upstream to benefit from Chromium changes over time, which unfortunately means they avoid making any deep changes to the code. None of the Chromium forks are hard ones, unlike Chromium itself which was a hardfork of Apple’s webkit, which in turn was a hard fork off KDE’s KHTML.

Also, Mozilla should DEFINITELY NOT adopt Chromium. We need diversity in web browsers, the idea is that by having different user agents we give the user more bargain power over how they want to browse the web. Remember, Google, Microsoft and Apple are NOT your friends, all they want is to ransack everything and increase their shareholder values. If they can turn the web proprietary and fully locked down, they will.

I agree, installing old linux was a great way of learning unix commands and how computers works, plus you got really good at administering linux computers. But of course, that only works out if you have a vested interest in computers already and quite a bit of free time, so I’m also glad all “normal” folks nowadays can get an awesome linux experience without having to put much effort at all.

f it were 40 years ago, maybe Linux would’ve had a chance to beat MS

really dude? you think Linux can’t compete with ms-dos? REALLY?

At least be a little more reasonable and respectable of decades of effort from the FOSS community. Had you said that todays Linux would only be competitive with windows from 15 years ago I would understand and somewhat agree with that. Also, Windows has been degrading ever since 2012 and Linux keeps getting more appealing compared to the current Windows releases as time goes on.

It also doesn’t help that half of your anecdotes also blatantly happens on Windows. Yes, PCs and PC manufacturers sure suck, it’s only a bit better on Windows because manufactures sometimes test their half-assed stuff there and make giant piles of workarounds to make it sorta work.

Maybe he was using Vesa basic graphics mode in the other distros?

Are you from the future? Please tell us more about the RDNA4 architecture if so :)