You should be running Windows in a VM under Linux, and then only launch the VM for the odd Windows-only app that has no better Linux equivalent, (of which there are now very few real cases of).
Sorry but not being a Windows guy I have to ask: What does sysinternals bring to the party that we can't already achieve with existing Linux-based tools?
well I sort of agree, after trying the 8K and the 5K+, I suspect the 8K would look better with more intelligent upscaling, however I suspect putting smart upscaling on the GPU would probably drag it to its knees, just like superscaling can. No-one is really writing games from scratch any more, so I think making DLSS widely supported is really up to the game engine makers to incorporate it in a way that game developers don't need to worry about explicitly implementing, or even see, they just effectively get it already bundled for free.
> Current GPUs aren't up to the task in a straightforward way.
At the Pimax demo I went to today, 8k was working just fine with a 2080ti. 1.5 supersampling and no judder at all evem im Elite dangerou. I believe the 5k+ system was using a 1080ti and it was fine running SkyrimVR too.
I tried both the 5K+ and the 8K pimax today ( both have 1440p X 2 input , the 5K+ has native res panels, 8K does upscaling to 4k panels). I was not alone in concluding the 5K+ looked better. There were maybe 15 people at the demo, and not one said they thought the 8K looked better.
> The Pimax has many issues. Optical distortion in particular.
Utter crap. I just spent about 4 hours today with the 5K+, the new 5K business edition, and the 8K, and a large range of different games. None showed any sign of optical distortion.
> It is not revolutionary at all, Baloney. The FOV alone blows the fuck out of anything Oculus or HTC have made so far, and the resolution is better too. Its also lighter and far more comfortable. t definately feels like the next gen, unlike the Vive Pro.
> we need VR to become mainstream, and $600 systems wired to $1200 gaming PCs won't get us that.
Crap headsets based on Android tablets llike the Oculus go certainly won't. If there was a real market for that, Samsung GearVR would have already been a much bigger hit.
I'm a Pimax 8K backer, input res is 2560x1440 per eye. (it get upscaled to native 4k per eye by the headset hardware)
Tests have shown that a last gen GPU (gtx1070) is bare minimum. 1080ti is more realistic. Current gen 2080ti (cost is about $1200) is more than fine.
Yeah you need to be able to pay to play, but that's how it is with most hobbies. Actually, $1200 is pocket money compared to maximum possible expenditure in most of my other hobbies.
I'l bet right now that Iribe will imminently announce his own VR company, with Karmack at the technical reins, with every intention to release producs that will blow the fuck out of Facebook and their crappy VR strategy.
I've never been a fan of Oculus.. I personally think they/their products are underservedly overrated by a bunch of fanbois, as the Rift is actually very mediocre compared to even the Vive, especially its roomscale tracking solution. That said I hated seeing one of the largest VR companies end up just making more anemic GearVR clones such as the Oculus Go and whetever else Zuckerberg seems to want.
More competition and more innovation in the VR sector is better for everyone. I'm very much looking forward to attending a Pimax backer meeting in LA tomorrow and trying the 5K+ and 8K. How is it that a small Chinese company can be coming out with groundbreaking stuff, when HTC and Oculus are both at best doing low-risk little iterative improvements?
Sorry but I don;t subscribe to your lets-become-a-nanny-state mindset. That said, a biannual driving test for the over 70's to keep their driving licences would work wonders. Many countries in Europe already do this. I mean how clueless do you have to be to even try what she did?
As Car enthusiast that hasn't had a single accident in over 35 years of driving, I'm gonna claim that I'm a better driver than any Tesla with what is effectively beta software driving, and already has a documented record of killing people. The real risk on the road are idiots that cant put their fucking cellphone down, or keep focussed on anything for more than 2 minutes. Fix the REAL problem by taking proven distracted drivers licences away, (so they have to Uber or use the bus). Don't take away the rights of perfectly good drivers, or use technology to enable the bad ones..
> Microsoft is also planning, but has not yet enabled, a new Windows troubleshooter.
(user runs troubleshooter) "I see you have found a way to disable all our telemetric spyware and uninstall all the locked-in crapware... Let me "fix" that workaround for you and download/reinstall it all again"
As a kid I have many fond memories of sneaking a pocket radio with a cheap earphone out after bedtimes, just lying in bed listening to Radio Luxembourg fading in and out with the atmospheric changes. I would have loved to have been nearer to London so I could have gotten the legendary radio Caroline too, but Luxmebourg was it where I lived, take it or leave it. If you Americans want to know what I'm talking about, watch the movie "Pirate Radio/The Boat That Rocked".
It seems to me that the internet enables rather than prevents alternatives to the mainstream. Back then you needed a whole bunch of expensive infrastructure including a radio station and quite possibly a ship outside the 12 mile limit, now you just need a streaming website. In fact it seems the reverse problem exists. There are so many you can't find the wood for the trees.
> I have no interest in picking threw their data to find flaws
Yep typical Democrat. It's all just lock-step compliance to the groupthink, while consciously avoiding any critical thinking or facts that might challenge it. You and your kind would have fit right into 1930's fascist Germany.
No, actaully hardware faults are NOT trivial to work around AT ALL, especially if you're talking about a system that is safety-critical.
Yes.Fundamental design error may ultimately be a human fault but wierdly enough, knowing that doesn't actually make the person in a car currently heading straight at a wall at 70mph any happier.
Also, you need to get a clue about inherent loss due to converting something from the analog into the digital domain. It is NOT a hardware fault. Its an inescapable law of the universe.
> Seriously you're acting like you've never worked with a truly highly reliable system before
Sure I have. Does a complete avionics system for a new military aircraft count in your mind?
So here's what I think is actually going on: Microsoft are seeing they are making far more money off of Linux than Windows 10 (Android licensing, corporate no-sue deals, and the recent announcement about how even Azure is running far more Linux than Windows Server instances, and the ratio is still increasing). So I'm thinking Microsoft are actually the force behind this Linux CoC nonsense (via many secretly paid SJW shills for Microsoft such as Sage Sharp). Why? as a viable strategy to fragment Linux at its core Now that Linus has stepped down even temporarily, control will degrade quickly, so Kernel branches will inevitably start to appear soon. Microsoft will simply ensure they become new owners of the most popular Linux kernel branch, both through sheer force of spending giant amounts of money on it, and because they also already have the hearts and minds of many clueless IT managers. Once they have secured a foothold they will dominate and predate on any/all other popular kernel branches, until each competing branch fades away into relative obscurity of only being used by a tiny group of fanbois, At that point Microsoft completely control Linux.
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You're doing it backwards.
You should be running Windows in a VM under Linux, and then only launch the VM for the odd Windows-only app that has no better Linux equivalent, (of which there are now very few real cases of).
> WLinux may not be for you if you can set everything up yourself.
Ubuntu is far easier and faster to install than Windows.
It looks like you've been fired. May i help you with that?
> Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age?
No, 'It' actually gets softer with age.
Sorry but not being a Windows guy I have to ask:
What does sysinternals bring to the party that we can't already achieve with existing Linux-based tools?
well I sort of agree, after trying the 8K and the 5K+, I suspect the 8K would look better with more intelligent upscaling, however I suspect putting smart upscaling on the GPU would probably drag it to its knees, just like superscaling can. No-one is really writing games from scratch any more, so I think making DLSS widely supported is really up to the game engine makers to incorporate it in a way that game developers don't need to worry about explicitly implementing, or even see, they just effectively get it already bundled for free.
> Current GPUs aren't up to the task in a straightforward way.
At the Pimax demo I went to today, 8k was working just fine with a 2080ti. 1.5 supersampling and no judder at all evem im Elite dangerou. I believe the 5k+ system was using a 1080ti and it was fine running SkyrimVR too.
no-one is even aiming at 120hz. The generally accepted standard is 90hz.
60hz gives very visible judder.
I tried both the 5K+ and the 8K pimax today ( both have 1440p X 2 input , the 5K+ has native res panels, 8K does upscaling to 4k panels). I was not alone in concluding the 5K+ looked better. There were maybe 15 people at the demo, and not one said they thought the 8K looked better.
...If you're a mouth-breather.
> The Pimax has many issues. Optical distortion in particular.
Utter crap. I just spent about 4 hours today with the 5K+, the new 5K business edition, and the 8K, and a large range of different games. None showed any sign of optical distortion.
> It is not revolutionary at all,
Baloney. The FOV alone blows the fuck out of anything Oculus or HTC have made so far, and the resolution is better too. Its also lighter and far more comfortable. t definately feels like the next gen, unlike the Vive Pro.
> we need VR to become mainstream, and $600 systems wired to $1200 gaming PCs won't get us that.
Crap headsets based on Android tablets llike the Oculus go certainly won't. If there was a real market for that, Samsung GearVR would have already been a much bigger hit.
I'm a Pimax 8K backer, input res is 2560x1440 per eye. (it get upscaled to native 4k per eye by the headset hardware)
Tests have shown that a last gen GPU (gtx1070) is bare minimum. 1080ti is more realistic. Current gen 2080ti (cost is about $1200) is more than fine.
Yeah you need to be able to pay to play, but that's how it is with most hobbies. Actually, $1200 is pocket money compared to maximum possible expenditure in most of my other hobbies.
I'l bet right now that Iribe will imminently announce his own VR company, with Karmack at the technical reins, with every intention to release producs that will blow the fuck out of Facebook and their crappy VR strategy.
I've never been a fan of Oculus.. I personally think they/their products are underservedly overrated by a bunch of fanbois, as the Rift is actually very mediocre compared to even the Vive, especially its roomscale tracking solution. That said I hated seeing one of the largest VR companies end up just making more anemic GearVR clones such as the Oculus Go and whetever else Zuckerberg seems to want.
More competition and more innovation in the VR sector is better for everyone. I'm very much looking forward to attending a Pimax backer meeting in LA tomorrow and trying the 5K+ and 8K. How is it that a small Chinese company can be coming out with groundbreaking stuff, when HTC and Oculus are both at best doing low-risk little iterative improvements?
Sorry but I don;t subscribe to your lets-become-a-nanny-state mindset.
That said, a biannual driving test for the over 70's to keep their driving licences would work wonders. Many countries in Europe already do this. I mean how clueless do you have to be to even try what she did?
As Car enthusiast that hasn't had a single accident in over 35 years of driving, I'm gonna claim that I'm a better driver than any Tesla with what is effectively beta software driving, and already has a documented record of killing people.
The real risk on the road are idiots that cant put their fucking cellphone down, or keep focussed on anything for more than 2 minutes. Fix the REAL problem by taking proven distracted drivers licences away, (so they have to Uber or use the bus). Don't take away the rights of perfectly good drivers, or use technology to enable the bad ones..
Yes they absolutely do. At least for now.
> Microsoft is also planning, but has not yet enabled, a new Windows troubleshooter.
(user runs troubleshooter)
"I see you have found a way to disable all our telemetric spyware and uninstall all the locked-in crapware... Let me "fix" that workaround for you and download/reinstall it all again"
yeah in 1982 the Argentinians thought no-one lived there too. Big mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As a kid I have many fond memories of sneaking a pocket radio with a cheap earphone out after bedtimes, just lying in bed listening to Radio Luxembourg fading in and out with the atmospheric changes. I would have loved to have been nearer to London so I could have gotten the legendary radio Caroline too, but Luxmebourg was it where I lived, take it or leave it. If you Americans want to know what I'm talking about, watch the movie "Pirate Radio/The Boat That Rocked".
It seems to me that the internet enables rather than prevents alternatives to the mainstream. Back then you needed a whole bunch of expensive infrastructure including a radio station and quite possibly a ship outside the 12 mile limit, now you just need a streaming website. In fact it seems the reverse problem exists. There are so many you can't find the wood for the trees.
Far easier, quicker, more fun and more convenient to drive. That way I also have a vehicle to use once I'm there.
> I have no interest in picking threw their data to find flaws
Yep typical Democrat. It's all just lock-step compliance to the groupthink, while consciously avoiding any critical thinking or facts that might challenge it. You and your kind would have fit right into 1930's fascist Germany.
No, actaully hardware faults are NOT trivial to work around AT ALL, especially if you're talking about a system that is safety-critical.
Yes.Fundamental design error may ultimately be a human fault but wierdly enough, knowing that doesn't actually make the person in a car currently heading straight at a wall at 70mph any happier.
Also, you need to get a clue about inherent loss due to converting something from the analog into the digital domain. It is NOT a hardware fault. Its an inescapable law of the universe.
> Seriously you're acting like you've never worked with a truly highly reliable system before
Sure I have. Does a complete avionics system for a new military aircraft count in your mind?
I wasn't going to a major city.
No but I've driven from Paris to Germany, because the train didn't even go anywhere near where I needed to go.
So here's what I think is actually going on:
Microsoft are seeing they are making far more money off of Linux than Windows 10 (Android licensing, corporate no-sue deals, and the recent announcement about how even Azure is running far more Linux than Windows Server instances, and the ratio is still increasing).
So I'm thinking Microsoft are actually the force behind this Linux CoC nonsense (via many secretly paid SJW shills for Microsoft such as Sage Sharp). Why? as a viable strategy to fragment Linux at its core Now that Linus has stepped down even temporarily, control will degrade quickly, so Kernel branches will inevitably start to appear soon.
Microsoft will simply ensure they become new owners of the most popular Linux kernel branch, both through sheer force of spending giant amounts of money on it, and because they also already have the hearts and minds of many clueless IT managers. Once they have secured a foothold they will dominate and predate on any/all other popular kernel branches, until each competing branch fades away into relative obscurity of only being used by a tiny group of fanbois,
At that point Microsoft completely control Linux.