The 7870 LE s an oddball using the Tahiti chipset instead of the more popular and well supported Pitcairn chipset.
Let me try to rephrase my understanding of the AC's point: The mere fact that poorly supported oddballs exist tarnishes the Radeon brand as a whole. It's like Intel GMA 500 being the oddball for the otherwise general advice prior to Sandy/Ivy Bridge of "so long as all you need is OpenGL 1.x, Intel GMA works well under Linux."
It could be because last time X11/Linux users heard of the "Unity" brand, it was Ubuntu 11.10 forcing GNOME 2 users to switch to the similarly named yet unrelated Un(usabil)ity desktop environment, or Ubuntu 18.04 finally dispensing with it after Canonical realized that users had fled to MATE, Cinnamon, or Xfce.
The big reason people should use Linux is to free themselves from proprietary closed source OS that is designed to take away your freedom.
As opposed to proprietary closed source applications that are designed to take away your freedom? I'd bet not even 2 percent of games on Steam are available under a free software license. As jcnnghm and bingoUV have pointed out in the past, free software has been successful at producing libraries and other well-defined software, but not producing original software that meets the more nebulous requirements of what makes a game fun.
You are confusing the steam client application as being part of the OS, but it is just an application program.
From the point of view of Linux proper, which is a kernel, your desktop environment is an application program. X.Org X11 is an application program. Even sysvinit or systemd is an application program. For the purpose of discussion, where do you draw a line between userspace system software and what a user would think of as an application?
Or you could just stop buying stupid gimmicks. VR is the modern lightgun.
And some people love their Duck Hunt so much that they cook up homemade solutions involving a Wii Remote, an Arduino MCU kit, and a Raspberry Pi single-board computer to force a Zapper to work with a modern TV. See "Tricking Duck Hunt to See A Modern LCD TV as CRT" by Jenny List.
But then you're not only paying to license an additional operating system every few years, as PixetaledPikachu pointed out, but also paying for more RAM in your PC in order to hold two operating systems at once while a game or Windows Update is running. Recall that DRAM prices have trended upward at times, doubling over the course of 2017. You're also starting the Windows VM in a cron job so that Windows can check for security updates without having to do so during your game.
Popular culture assocates Steam with Half-Life 2 because Half-Life 2 was the first game to require Steam authentication even for retail copies. Back then, the client also had a habit of losing the receipts that allow offline mode to work, leading to a perception that you had to be online to go offline.
If a website's sponsors can't get their message through, would you prefer a paywall on the document you are trying to read, as well as paywalls on the next three or four comparable search results?
Some websites' operators may not want non-subscribers to print documents or read them offline. The following assumes the point of view of such websites:
1. So how does Print / Save to PDF work?
First you sign up for a recurring monthly payment on each website whose documents you want to print. Then you can download the document in PDF form from the website. If you try to print without first subscribing, the site may put garbage all over the printed version to make it less desirable, as the ads served along with the document are targeted to your interests, not to those of subsequent readers. Ars Technica is like this.
2. The browser does not know if I am going to view the page offline later.
The website treats offline reading as a perk for subscribers. If you don't want to subscribe to a website, you can avoid going offline in the first place by paying a cellular ISP for a subscription to cellular Internet access. Bores DSP is like this.
Having a document loaded in a tab, as opposed to a bookmark, makes it more likely that you will remain able to read the document while your user agent is offline. It also saves the state of the document beyond what the developer chose to incorporate in the URL, such as the POST data that led to a particular view or the changes made by script to the DOM.
Even if you want what you're trying to read or click on to move out from under you, I don't think the majority do. In addition, repeating layout and paint every time a subresource loads can become taxing on a CPU, especially since Moore's law switched from speed to cores.
And back then you had more chance of flash of unstyled content (FOUC) when the no-CSS, no-script version of a document would appear and then abruptly change to the version modified by CSS and progressive enhancement. A lot of the loading delay you see on sites is due to FOUC prevention measures.
In the web platform, lazy loading means don't download anything until the user scrolls to it.
A lot of websites have implemented their own lazy loading in JavaScript for two reasons. One is improving perceived page load time by prioritizing the first screenful of the document. The other is saving server bandwidth (and client bandwidth for users on metered cellular Internet) by not serving large images that the user is not likely to view. But two drawbacks of this sort of lazy loading are 1. incompatibility with clients that do not use JavaScript and 2. incompatibility with clients that download a page over unmetered home Internet for later reading while offline or while on metered cellular Internet (such as while riding the bus).
That's what Bitcoin miners do - sign the pages of the ledger in return for rewards (bitcoins).
So why can't the pages be made larger to fit more transactions in one page? That's what the second half of SegWit2x was supposed to do, but it was canceled.
On the other hand, claiming that the sort of abusive nickel-and-diming seen with repeatable "energy" purchases == in-app purchases is also "a pretty desperate argument." The line between tolerable free-to-try and abusive free-to-try lies somewhere between Nintendo's Super Mario Run, which is pretty close to shareware, and EA's Dungeon Keeper.
It could be. But we could also be seeing a scare tactic to discredit cryptography by causing non-technical users to confuse cryptography with cryptocurrency. It would fit in well with an effort to require communication operators to break end-to-end functionality under the guise of providing assistance to law enforcement, as Australia is doing lately
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Where are you going to get your ARM laptop to run Linux on?
Pinebook should help answer that soon.
the desktop is dying, eaten at one end by the "creative workstation"
The desktop is the creative workstation.
You should look at NXP QorIQ chips, Marvell, and NVIDIA.
The problem with Marvell is that half of your data could disappear with the snap of a fingerr.
The 7870 LE s an oddball using the Tahiti chipset instead of the more popular and well supported Pitcairn chipset.
Let me try to rephrase my understanding of the AC's point: The mere fact that poorly supported oddballs exist tarnishes the Radeon brand as a whole. It's like Intel GMA 500 being the oddball for the otherwise general advice prior to Sandy/Ivy Bridge of "so long as all you need is OpenGL 1.x, Intel GMA works well under Linux."
It could be because last time X11/Linux users heard of the "Unity" brand, it was Ubuntu 11.10 forcing GNOME 2 users to switch to the similarly named yet unrelated Un(usabil)ity desktop environment, or Ubuntu 18.04 finally dispensing with it after Canonical realized that users had fled to MATE, Cinnamon, or Xfce.
The big reason people should use Linux is to free themselves from proprietary closed source OS that is designed to take away your freedom.
As opposed to proprietary closed source applications that are designed to take away your freedom? I'd bet not even 2 percent of games on Steam are available under a free software license. As jcnnghm and bingoUV have pointed out in the past, free software has been successful at producing libraries and other well-defined software, but not producing original software that meets the more nebulous requirements of what makes a game fun.
You are confusing the steam client application as being part of the OS, but it is just an application program.
From the point of view of Linux proper, which is a kernel, your desktop environment is an application program. X.Org X11 is an application program. Even sysvinit or systemd is an application program. For the purpose of discussion, where do you draw a line between userspace system software and what a user would think of as an application?
Or you could just stop buying stupid gimmicks. VR is the modern lightgun.
And some people love their Duck Hunt so much that they cook up homemade solutions involving a Wii Remote, an Arduino MCU kit, and a Raspberry Pi single-board computer to force a Zapper to work with a modern TV. See "Tricking Duck Hunt to See A Modern LCD TV as CRT" by Jenny List.
But then you're not only paying to license an additional operating system every few years, as PixetaledPikachu pointed out, but also paying for more RAM in your PC in order to hold two operating systems at once while a game or Windows Update is running. Recall that DRAM prices have trended upward at times, doubling over the course of 2017. You're also starting the Windows VM in a cron job so that Windows can check for security updates without having to do so during your game.
Popular culture assocates Steam with Half-Life 2 because Half-Life 2 was the first game to require Steam authentication even for retail copies. Back then, the client also had a habit of losing the receipts that allow offline mode to work, leading to a perception that you had to be online to go offline.
If your desktop environment uses the GTK+ library, an application using Wine is no less "native" than an application using Qt.
The idea is that you get to play a game before its publisher permanently shuts off the matchmaking servers.
My first guess was that the building had depreciated but the land on which it was built had not.
It's still the case that a company is eager to litigate over whether a factory-sealed copy of its product is "new".
Does Pong count?!?
No, but a Family Computer does. (In the west, it was called the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES for short.)
If a website's sponsors can't get their message through, would you prefer a paywall on the document you are trying to read, as well as paywalls on the next three or four comparable search results?
Some websites' operators may not want non-subscribers to print documents or read them offline. The following assumes the point of view of such websites:
1. So how does Print / Save to PDF work?
First you sign up for a recurring monthly payment on each website whose documents you want to print. Then you can download the document in PDF form from the website. If you try to print without first subscribing, the site may put garbage all over the printed version to make it less desirable, as the ads served along with the document are targeted to your interests, not to those of subsequent readers. Ars Technica is like this.
2. The browser does not know if I am going to view the page offline later.
The website treats offline reading as a perk for subscribers. If you don't want to subscribe to a website, you can avoid going offline in the first place by paying a cellular ISP for a subscription to cellular Internet access. Bores DSP is like this.
Having a document loaded in a tab, as opposed to a bookmark, makes it more likely that you will remain able to read the document while your user agent is offline. It also saves the state of the document beyond what the developer chose to incorporate in the URL, such as the POST data that led to a particular view or the changes made by script to the DOM.
Even if you want what you're trying to read or click on to move out from under you, I don't think the majority do. In addition, repeating layout and paint every time a subresource loads can become taxing on a CPU, especially since Moore's law switched from speed to cores.
And back then you had more chance of flash of unstyled content (FOUC) when the no-CSS, no-script version of a document would appear and then abruptly change to the version modified by CSS and progressive enhancement. A lot of the loading delay you see on sites is due to FOUC prevention measures.
Chrome Canary is the unstable nightly build of the Google Chrome web browser, akin to Firefox Nightly.
In the web platform, lazy loading means don't download anything until the user scrolls to it.
A lot of websites have implemented their own lazy loading in JavaScript for two reasons. One is improving perceived page load time by prioritizing the first screenful of the document. The other is saving server bandwidth (and client bandwidth for users on metered cellular Internet) by not serving large images that the user is not likely to view. But two drawbacks of this sort of lazy loading are 1. incompatibility with clients that do not use JavaScript and 2. incompatibility with clients that download a page over unmetered home Internet for later reading while offline or while on metered cellular Internet (such as while riding the bus).
That's what Bitcoin miners do - sign the pages of the ledger in return for rewards (bitcoins).
So why can't the pages be made larger to fit more transactions in one page? That's what the second half of SegWit2x was supposed to do, but it was canceled.
On the other hand, claiming that the sort of abusive nickel-and-diming seen with repeatable "energy" purchases == in-app purchases is also "a pretty desperate argument." The line between tolerable free-to-try and abusive free-to-try lies somewhere between Nintendo's Super Mario Run, which is pretty close to shareware, and EA's Dungeon Keeper.
Or are we seeing the death throes of Crypto coin
It could be. But we could also be seeing a scare tactic to discredit cryptography by causing non-technical users to confuse cryptography with cryptocurrency. It would fit in well with an effort to require communication operators to break end-to-end functionality under the guise of providing assistance to law enforcement, as Australia is doing lately