Recent content by Kongar

I've been using linux and various distros as a toy/hobby/experiment since it came out in the 90s - but never super seriously, and frankly I've never been a stud at how it works. I often would install a distro, not be able to get something to work, use it for a while for some things, but...

I built a new PC a little bit ago, and upgraded to 11 from 10 - and the only reason I did that was because I had to do a complete reinstall on a new SSD. There simply aren't compelling reasons to upgrade from 10. 11 is 10 with a facelift, some added bloat, but other wise is pretty much the...

I've been cycling through what seems like a million different new mice and I hated them all. Just tonight I went back to the old standby that served me well for what seemed like forever - Logitech G502. I guess you can use a mouse for so long that it becomes impossible to replace. I hope they...

Sorry not trying to hijack. Rather trying to make the point that no OS is perfect, and it's highly subjective to the individual and their use case. There's all kinds of things to not like about win11, but they can be fixed with mods or one can run other OSs. I just like to encourage people to...

fair enough - haven't tried those.

I'm running arch gnome on my main rig dual booted with win 11. I have a secondary PC running endeavor - I like that as well. I have another laptop running mint. The pc running endeavor shipped with win 11 and it NEVER worked right (minis forum pc used as a small little college paper writing...

I guess I'll be the Linux guy... There's nothing wrong with 11's functionality. It totally works. It runs all windows programs (obviously), so it's worth keeping around as a dual boot for the odd game or program that doesn't behave in linux. But I've found I simply don't like it as much as...

What kinds of radiation levels was it subjected to? Did they build it to withstand Chernobyl elephant's foot levels of radiation? Is space better or worse? Hard for us little brained people to put things on a meaningful scale...

Ya that's fair - both of my examples were over decades. You kind of can't complain about someone who has literally dedicated their entire career to a single company. Nvidia might have moved a bit faster - more of a hockey stick growth chart.

It smells EXACTLY like my Compudyne 486 from CompUSA. The nostalgia hits so hard. I'm huffing those fumes like a crack addict ;)

Cool post, great read first thing on a Monday morning. Thanks!

I mean, to some extent this is unavoidable. New employees didn't build Nvidia into the company it is today - that was done by the "old timers." I've seen this before in two other companies I worked at. Everyone acts like it's just the big wigs making bank - but the reality is that there are...

I really can't stand the taskbar on 11. Somehow I always end up with what MS wants to push down my throat instead of what I'm looking for. It's just not intuitive at all. I keep finding myself making the following errors after like a year of using it (they only stop me for <1 sec, but it's...

ya just turn off tpm and it won't install. Mine won't go because I'm using legacy bios and tpm is turned off. I like to wait a little bit before upgrading operating systems and let compatibility and drivers settle down. When I'm ready to go and have some free time to tinker, I'll format the...

You know, and for anyone stumbling across this in the future (since there seems to be a bot in here). I concur with lopoetve, I've had one mobo fail on me in almost 30 years of building PCs - it's not very common in my experience for them to fail. I've had more CPUs fail than mobos believe it...