You joke, but LibreOffice still can't do right important things like proper kerning of the text (the spacing between letters is almost always done wrong), hinting to many common fonts (the text never looks "right" visually, sometimes it gets blurry or it gets too thin), and now they have resolved to make things worse, the rendering of the font used in the interface for example was clearly worse when using Windows, it seems that the application is trying to draw its own interface from scratch instead of using the features of the operating system and doing a lousy job on it.
Well I have to be careful about the time to upgrade because I live in a shithole country where you have to pay twice as much for decent hardware. So yes, I'm waiting for the moment when the available hardware becomes arguably superior in any scenario because only then will be a good idea to do the upgrade, is too expensive to do that too soon.
I am a creature of darkness, not a lawyer (but I admit that I have a lot of lawyers on my torture chambers, they have the tendency to be sent to me when they die). But having said that, considering that the SCO long ago should have to prove that IBM would infringe her rights and to this day it did not, so why the case still continues today? If I were the judge of the case I would ask SCO to present the proofs of her statement and if it failed at this I would simply end the case.
Why wait? I am waiting because if is to pay a lot then I'll pick up something that has Threadripper performance for multitasking and also has more gaming performance than my current config, and maybe Zen+ or Zen2 will fulfill that goal.
it's clear enough that I'm thinking of buying an AMD and I'm just waiting the launch of Zen+ to do it, braindead. You only proved what I said about you;)
It's that I actually did not find it necessary in the original comment, but since you asked politely I'll tell you
Let's say that my current desktop has "X" performance, I've defined to myself that I should only change when new hardware is at least 50% better than the current one (a i7 4930K@4GHz). When the Threadripper appeared I thought I had found the ideal candidate, and in fact in multitasking applications it is several times better than my current desktop.
However, the TR performance on games (especially old games) is at most comparable to my current hardware (the games I enjoy playing can not make effective use of multithreading), so in terms of games I would not be really upgrading. The Threadripper also have that problem with the way it accesses the memory (high latency depending on which core is accessing which bank), which is not exactly a problem for normal desktop applications but hinders games where you are trying to extract every possible frame.
So I have a situation where it pays to upgrade on one activity but it does not pay off on the other, so I decided to wait. But now with the Zen+ AMD might get the extra performance per core I need to old games (and better memory controller maybe), then there will be time to upgrade.
Oh look, a little snowflake here with some serious cognitive problems. A normal person would ask first why I think Threadripper is not good for games and I would respond, but seens the methamphetamine abuse has melted the cognitive part of your brain, right? I'm sorry, then I will pass to you the version "for birds" from my comment when I have time.
I second that. Also waiting for Zen+ to see it they will deliver enough performance to justify a change from my current CPU. I could buy an i9 but honestly, pay dearly for a processor that uses mayonnaise between die and lid? I did not buy a Threadriper just because of the problems to run games/memory compatibility, otherwise I would have already switched.
Can you give a concrete example? Most things a home user would need work out-the-box.
Easy: Try to jack three monitors on a desktop with two video cards (one Intel, one nVidia), where one monitor is DisplayPort and the others are HDMI. I spent an afternoon trying to make it work.
cmd.exe doesn't copy when I press CTRL-C, so it's not like Windows is 100% consistent. Mac OS X is better in this regard, but has it's own keyboard-related irritations.
Do you use as an example the only known case where copy/paste does not work between applications in Windows? Really?
If you do things you shouldn't, yes this can happen.
Funny thing, most packages seems do to that most of time, specially when I try to install a recent version from some application
Never seen this myself. And in the event you do need to do a new install (like a new system), all your own settings can be easily copied across with minimal effort.
Lucky you, here happens most of the time
Is customising a large app from source code any easier on any other OS? It seems much easier on Linux than, say, Windows
Well, usually i do not need to do that on Windows, you know.
First it is quite important that you understand, very clearly, that I used GIMP just as an example of what usually happens when I try to install or update new applications on Linux.
This said, my real problem with the process of installing applications on Linux is that usually an installation that has had problems ends up causing system-wide problems (And even installations that have succeeded can cause these system problems) and when you try to fix these issues (especially when using package management) the problem ends up getting even bigger (More than once the package manager required removing the entire GNOME to allow me to return a library to the correct version, WTF?). It's really hard for me to have a problem like this in Windows.
And note that I am a developer, sooner or later I end up finding a way around these problems. But imagine the problem for anyone who is not a developer and he wants to use Linux.
Well, but now it is dying a slow death (see the market share) because Mozilla broke all that addons and customizations which were the reason to use firefox instead of other browsers in the first place... That does not make much sense right?
I'm noticing that the "snowflakes attack" continues, and the irony is that I like using Firefox. But seeing the toxic reaction of the "Firefox community" against criticism seems that is really time for me to look for another browser.
I lost way too many useful add ons to want the upgrade. That was the best of FF, was that you could do that.
Just don't be an idiot and install some trash add on.
This. For me, installing a plugin is like installing an application, if you can not trust the plugin then you do not install it, simple as that.
Off topic, but I believe relevant to what you wrote. I also noticed in one of my desktops, using Windows 10, that when an old game I have tried to use near 4GB of RAM Windows simply stopped responding, and this considering that the desktop in question have 8GB of RAM (It should be more than enough for the game to work). I also wanted to know what they did with memory management, since the same thing does not happen on the other simmilar desktop with Windows 7 (the game works correctly or if it does not work it don't crash the operating system)
I'm on a similar boat. I particularly like Firefox (note that I'm talking about version 56), but it was the extensions that made it really useful. Did you notice, for example, the difference in functionality between the "XUL" ad-block and the "Webextensions" ad-block? The previous one is infinitely better and when I questioned the developer he replied that unfortunately he can not do better because of the limited and sloppy api that is the "webextensions", so if I migrate to Firefox 57 I'll be effectively without extensions.
shhhh, do not say anything that might offend the snowflakes that took control of Mozilla if you do not want to earn the "horrible" troll title for the cruelty of writing the truth.
The only thing that separated Firefox from the competition were the plugins (to be more exact, the power of these plugins) and Firefox threw it out and replaced it with lobotomized versions incapable to replicate the functionality of the previous versions.
So I will stay with Firefox 56 (the last sane version) as much as I can.
True, but everyone is already looking to make sure "from who i am buying when buying a used card". And in doubt I do not buy, simple as that.
The miners think themselves too clever thinking that they could get into this hype without risks (selling the beaten cards to suckers), but they will burn themselves with all this "cleverness".
It's a little worse. If there were no government regulations this situation would be repeating itself with medicines, food, fuel, lodging, etc, you and I would be fighting to get potatoes for dinner because some asshole decided to buy all potato stocks to force the price into the stratosphere.
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You joke, but LibreOffice still can't do right important things like proper kerning of the text (the spacing between letters is almost always done wrong), hinting to many common fonts (the text never looks "right" visually, sometimes it gets blurry or it gets too thin), and now they have resolved to make things worse, the rendering of the font used in the interface for example was clearly worse when using Windows, it seems that the application is trying to draw its own interface from scratch instead of using the features of the operating system and doing a lousy job on it.
Well I have to be careful about the time to upgrade because I live in a shithole country where you have to pay twice as much for decent hardware. So yes, I'm waiting for the moment when the available hardware becomes arguably superior in any scenario because only then will be a good idea to do the upgrade, is too expensive to do that too soon.
I am a creature of darkness, not a lawyer (but I admit that I have a lot of lawyers on my torture chambers, they have the tendency to be sent to me when they die). But having said that, considering that the SCO long ago should have to prove that IBM would infringe her rights and to this day it did not, so why the case still continues today? If I were the judge of the case I would ask SCO to present the proofs of her statement and if it failed at this I would simply end the case.
Why wait? I am waiting because if is to pay a lot then I'll pick up something that has Threadripper performance for multitasking and also has more gaming performance than my current config, and maybe Zen+ or Zen2 will fulfill that goal.
It's a game of lawyers. The only effective way to end this is nuclear bombardment from orbit.
it's clear enough that I'm thinking of buying an AMD and I'm just waiting the launch of Zen+ to do it, braindead. You only proved what I said about you ;)
It's that I actually did not find it necessary in the original comment, but since you asked politely I'll tell you
Let's say that my current desktop has "X" performance, I've defined to myself that I should only change when new hardware is at least 50% better than the current one (a i7 4930K@4GHz). When the Threadripper appeared I thought I had found the ideal candidate, and in fact in multitasking applications it is several times better than my current desktop.
However, the TR performance on games (especially old games) is at most comparable to my current hardware (the games I enjoy playing can not make effective use of multithreading), so in terms of games I would not be really upgrading. The Threadripper also have that problem with the way it accesses the memory (high latency depending on which core is accessing which bank), which is not exactly a problem for normal desktop applications but hinders games where you are trying to extract every possible frame.
So I have a situation where it pays to upgrade on one activity but it does not pay off on the other, so I decided to wait. But now with the Zen+ AMD might get the extra performance per core I need to old games (and better memory controller maybe), then there will be time to upgrade.
Oh look, a little snowflake here with some serious cognitive problems. A normal person would ask first why I think Threadripper is not good for games and I would respond, but seens the methamphetamine abuse has melted the cognitive part of your brain, right? I'm sorry, then I will pass to you the version "for birds" from my comment when I have time.
I second that. Also waiting for Zen+ to see it they will deliver enough performance to justify a change from my current CPU. I could buy an i9 but honestly, pay dearly for a processor that uses mayonnaise between die and lid? I did not buy a Threadriper just because of the problems to run games/memory compatibility, otherwise I would have already switched.
Can you give a concrete example? Most things a home user would need work out-the-box.
Easy: Try to jack three monitors on a desktop with two video cards (one Intel, one nVidia), where one monitor is DisplayPort and the others are HDMI. I spent an afternoon trying to make it work.
cmd.exe doesn't copy when I press CTRL-C, so it's not like Windows is 100% consistent. Mac OS X is better in this regard, but has it's own keyboard-related irritations.
Do you use as an example the only known case where copy/paste does not work between applications in Windows? Really?
If you do things you shouldn't, yes this can happen.
Funny thing, most packages seems do to that most of time, specially when I try to install a recent version from some application
Never seen this myself. And in the event you do need to do a new install (like a new system), all your own settings can be easily copied across with minimal effort.
Lucky you, here happens most of the time
Is customising a large app from source code any easier on any other OS? It seems much easier on Linux than, say, Windows
Well, usually i do not need to do that on Windows, you know.
First it is quite important that you understand, very clearly, that I used GIMP just as an example of what usually happens when I try to install or update new applications on Linux.
This said, my real problem with the process of installing applications on Linux is that usually an installation that has had problems ends up causing system-wide problems (And even installations that have succeeded can cause these system problems) and when you try to fix these issues (especially when using package management) the problem ends up getting even bigger (More than once the package manager required removing the entire GNOME to allow me to return a library to the correct version, WTF?). It's really hard for me to have a problem like this in Windows.
And note that I am a developer, sooner or later I end up finding a way around these problems. But imagine the problem for anyone who is not a developer and he wants to use Linux.
Well, but now it is dying a slow death (see the market share) because Mozilla broke all that addons and customizations which were the reason to use firefox instead of other browsers in the first place... That does not make much sense right?
I'm noticing that the "snowflakes attack" continues, and the irony is that I like using Firefox. But seeing the toxic reaction of the "Firefox community" against criticism seems that is really time for me to look for another browser.
Honest question: Waterfox have the performance improvements from 57~beyond AND the support to XUL-style addons from 56 and later?
Are you going to keep insisting on that, kids? I'm sorry but keeping moderating me as "troll" or "offtopic" will not change the facts, get over it.
I lost way too many useful add ons to want the upgrade. That was the best of FF, was that you could do that. Just don't be an idiot and install some trash add on.
This. For me, installing a plugin is like installing an application, if you can not trust the plugin then you do not install it, simple as that.
To be fair I think they got the performance improvements, the problem is they broke everything else in the process.
Off topic, but I believe relevant to what you wrote. I also noticed in one of my desktops, using Windows 10, that when an old game I have tried to use near 4GB of RAM Windows simply stopped responding, and this considering that the desktop in question have 8GB of RAM (It should be more than enough for the game to work). I also wanted to know what they did with memory management, since the same thing does not happen on the other simmilar desktop with Windows 7 (the game works correctly or if it does not work it don't crash the operating system)
I'm on a similar boat. I particularly like Firefox (note that I'm talking about version 56), but it was the extensions that made it really useful. Did you notice, for example, the difference in functionality between the "XUL" ad-block and the "Webextensions" ad-block? The previous one is infinitely better and when I questioned the developer he replied that unfortunately he can not do better because of the limited and sloppy api that is the "webextensions", so if I migrate to Firefox 57 I'll be effectively without extensions.
shhhh, do not say anything that might offend the snowflakes that took control of Mozilla if you do not want to earn the "horrible" troll title for the cruelty of writing the truth.
So, if I say a hard truth now I are a "troll"? it is precisely because of this kind of childish attitude that Firefox does not advance, kids.
Fuck off.
The only thing that separated Firefox from the competition were the plugins (to be more exact, the power of these plugins) and Firefox threw it out and replaced it with lobotomized versions incapable to replicate the functionality of the previous versions.
So I will stay with Firefox 56 (the last sane version) as much as I can.
True, but everyone is already looking to make sure "from who i am buying when buying a used card". And in doubt I do not buy, simple as that.
The miners think themselves too clever thinking that they could get into this hype without risks (selling the beaten cards to suckers), but they will burn themselves with all this "cleverness".
It's a little worse. If there were no government regulations this situation would be repeating itself with medicines, food, fuel, lodging, etc, you and I would be fighting to get potatoes for dinner because some asshole decided to buy all potato stocks to force the price into the stratosphere.