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  1. Canonical pushes fourth point release for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

    Stupid comment is stupid.
    8 points
  2. Why? The point of the event was to show people how it will work, if it failed to work for whatever reason and they didn't have time to try again then just editing the video works. People want to see what your talking about in action to get a good idea of what's going on.
    6 points
  3. Stupid comment is stupid. Linux not even at 2% on desktop after 25 years Still as sucky as ever A good analogy with that Forrest Gump reference though is that Linux is good at ONE task at a time If Linux was so super fantastic, don't you think more people would be using it? My company makes FIPS approved embedded linux boards for enterprise customers which are designed for high security and tamper-proof environments... Surely if linux was so bad they'd use windows right? RIGHT!?
    5 points
  4. I don't understand the rush to 8K. Hardly anyone has/wants/needs an 8K TV. There's hardly any 8K content out there and streaming/downloading 8K videos is pointless unless you have an incredibly fast connection. I'm more than satisfied with 4K content for the foreseeable.
    4 points
  5. This sentence makes for a decent password.
    4 points
  6. Dipsylalalpo moves to the Supervisor Group

    Congratulations to @dipsylalapo. Due to his exemplary modding abilities he has been moved up to the Supervisor Group ㊗️
    3 points
  7. I presume you're over 50?
    3 points
  8. New report suggests MWC 2020 could be cancelled

    Sorry about that. Hope you could get refund or credit for the expenses. Neowin should not be held liable for this kind of unforeseen circumstance. Travel insurance. That might not be something available to them. You kinda buy that when you buy your ticket. We don't always purchase travel insurance but we did this time, and I am glad because I was able to cancel and be refunded for the flight, hotel and shuttle service.
    3 points
  9. Dipsylalalpo moves to the Supervisor Group

    Thanks all! Edit - ooh shiny new badge!
    3 points
  10. Canonical pushes fourth point release for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

    Stupid comment is stupid. Linux not even at 2% on desktop after 25 years Still as sucky as ever A good analogy with that Forrest Gump reference though is that Linux is good at ONE task at a time If Linux was so super fantastic, don't you think more people would be using it? The top ten super computers are all running Linux. Let's be honest though, that's like comparing Windows Server Core to the full version of Windows 10 on the desktop. Sure those servers are running Linux but they're very limited and customize for the specific 2 or 3 tasks that those supercomputers are built for. This guy gets it. It is sad and unfortunate that you base your own values on what other people use. Why does market share make something suck less or more? Maybe try being yourself instead of running with the herd. "It is sad and unfortunate that you base your own values on what other people use." Tell that to every Linux user ever. Why? They aren’t the ones doing that. There is a simple explanation as to why Linux sucks and why hardly anybody uses it on desktop. Because of multiple options. Multiple options where some hardware mysteriously world work, in another one it doesn't... and here is the real catch... getting that specific hardware to work is a pain in the ass compared to Windows. I have personally spent 2-3 days getting the 3D features working on a Radeon card. I have seen one guy trying for 5 days getting Linux up and running on a Sun blade server without success at work. I have tried giving Linux a shot ever since 1997 and I hated it every time. This is why Linux will never become popular. If you are amongst the magical below 2% where Linux works, well... whup-di-doo. The rest of us don't care and have given up long ago. You had your chance and you blew it. That hasn't been an issue in years now. Linux just works in 90% of cases. no extra driver installing or anything like you can get on a new Windows install. And this is coming from someone that primarily uses Windows right now.
    2 points
  11. You can now (try to) buy the Nintendo PlayStation prototype

    Ok Indi
    2 points
  12. It happens. Key thing to note is when the device will debut, which still has plenty of time to get worked out, compared to being shown devices like the Galaxy Fold which suffered fundamental design flaws close to release. Only thing that bothers me with the device so far is how wide the gap is between the screens... but maybe like the notch, it's something you get used to. (or maybe not, considering people complain about punchholes even lol)
    2 points
  13. They probably switched to a 2nd device and just redid it, still live. At first when I saw the headline I thought they edited it with some pre-rendered video but he's actually doing it on the device.
    2 points
  14. Sounds like a win for humanity
    2 points
  15. Canonical pushes fourth point release for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

    I run Ubuntu 18.04.3 on 18 Core Cascade Lake X, Nvidia 1080 ti and 32 Gb of DDR4 and currently playing Strange Brigade through Steam with enabled Proton and runs faster than on Windows 10. Yesterday, I played Assassin Creed Origins (almost done). Also have running Virtual Box with Windows 10 + Full Visual Studio in it, running Skype and Visual Studio Code (Linux Native). And after I finish doing these things I am going to fire Plex Media Player and stream some movies from Plex Media Server running on Intel Nuc with Linux installed on it as well. There is your answer. Btw, you can check this https://www.protondb.com/ ProtonDB is an option you enable in Steam. As far as gaming goes, Windows 10 as an ultimate gaming platform -> that ship also sailed away couple years ago. Microsoft got their market share after having monopoly back in 90s but that is slowly fading away. With 500 milions of Windows 7 users, the question is...where are they really going to move to. Windows 10 is on a life support called gaming but that is also changing. And for your information, overall Linux is the most dominant OS in the world, not on desktop but when you combine all type of devices it is.
    2 points
  16. That belongs in a museum.
    2 points
  17. Canonical pushes fourth point release for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

    Stupid comment is stupid. Linux not even at 2% on desktop after 25 years Still as sucky as ever A good analogy with that Forrest Gump reference though is that Linux is good at ONE task at a time If Linux was so super fantastic, don't you think more people would be using it? My company makes FIPS approved embedded linux boards for enterprise customers which are designed for high security and tamper-proof environments... Surely if linux was so bad they'd use windows right? RIGHT!? He said desktop. And he is not wrong. Linux has almost no desktop market share. Ubuntu 18.04 is a desktop OS.
    2 points
  18. Not as easy as that.....My S10 doesn't let you record directly to an SD card. It needs to be internal storage. I guess it's probably something to do with the speed
    2 points
  19. Is the bitrate configurable like in the Google Pixel series Camera app? Btw by the time 8K video goe s mainstream in next decade, we'd have moved on to AV1 and future codecs.
    2 points
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  21. Hands on with the Windows 10X emulator

    Really? A higher Ring VM technology like Virtual Box or VMWare is FASTER than a lower ring technology? Go on, there are a lot of engineers that would like to hear how you think this is even possible, let alone why you would believe something so stupid.
    2 points
  22. OMFG You have NO IDEA WTF YOU are talking about, JUST STOP, I am embarrassed for you. For anyone that wants to understand... - Windows (Since Vista) supports SMT GPU processes and threading. - This specific setting in Windows 10 allow users to target the GPU they want an Application to run on. For example, if you have an Animated/Video Wallpaper App, and you don't need your Geforce 2080 to run it, it instead can run on the integrated Intel GPU and consume almost no power, effortlessly. Also, this doesn't even have to do with 'MOBILE' users. There are times DESKTOP WORKSTATION users will want Maya to run on a slower GPU, and leave the faster GPU to the rendering pipeline. This also helps software that is multi-GPU unaware and locks itself and its threads to a specific GPU, even though Windows 10 is able to throw calls to any GPU and even the CPU based on load. Hopefully software will stop locking itself to GPU contexts on Windows like it is Linux or OS X crap.
    2 points
  23. They're just updating it and adding things, think the UI/UX is probably closer to the web version now but I could be wrong.
    2 points
  24. Andy Rubin's Essential folds, ending its phone business

    This wasn't going to end any other way from the get go.
    2 points
  25. Novel idea: then use that instead. Maybe, just maybe, this wasn’t a setting designed for you and instead mobile users. Last time I checked there is no such a thing as mobile users with Windows 10. If you mean laptops, these things are controlled through Nvidia, Intel and AMD display panel. As I said this option has no business to be in Windows. Last I checked, laptop users were mobile. Literally nobody said, smartphone or tablet. As for it being in Nvidia and AMD control panels, so? Have you used AMD’s? It’s a nightmare for regular use and the Nvidia one isn’t much better. Move to Linux bro, then you can have it your way. Sheesh.
    2 points
  26. Hands on with the Windows 10X emulator

    Facepalm much.. THIS OS IS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR/TARGETED AT MOBILE DEVICES Foot.. meet mouth.. No, this is Microsoft vision of future Windows. oh how dare they have a vision of security in mind. I would love win32 apps to be containerized like this on normal Windows. Win32 apps that have been ported to the store are really nice as there's no headache, especially if I choose to uninstall it later. Take iTunes as a good example, the normal installer method installs all sorts of services and such that get left behind when you uninstall it; no such issue with the Windows Store packaged version. It's the same app still just isolated into a container. no performance loss there either.
    2 points
  27. Hands on with the Windows 10X emulator

    So a OS for mobile dual screen devices is targeting mobile devices, you don't say? Who said anything about running this on desktops? Though dual screen laptops are a different story and those will run this. Though I've already seen twitter posts from people who'd like to have this shell on their desktops already, so you're clearly not talking about everyone here. And the "mobile" ship hasn't sailed, the "smartphone" ship did. Dual screen and folding devices are a whole new mobile market that no one has really taken control of yet.
    2 points
  28. Buy one spyware device and get two for free! It's still a low price though, for buying the user's personal data that will be sent to Chinese government.
    2 points
  29. Someone got Windows 10X running on a MacBook

    Because they can and just want to see how it is on real hardware and not in a emulator.
    1 point
  30. only 600? thats some pretty high compression considering how much good quality 4k video can take.. 8K is about 100Mbps compressed so that's about 960MB/min usually
    1 point
  31. So long as it's segmented into 5 minute chunks lol. This was the same limitation that came with 4K@60fps when it first debuted on Samsung devices. Apple got away with it due to their chips handling it better, coupled with HEVC which certainly helped (and is now mainstream). Huawei just caught up within the last year to both of them so I'm not sure they'll be doing 8K soon if the trend continues. "Do note that there's a limit of 5 minutes per video while recording content in 8K on the Galaxy S20."
    1 point
  32. That's not too bad. You could easily do three hours of video even on a 128GB phone if you wanted to.
    1 point
  33. WhatsApp surpasses two billion users worldwide

    Microsoft completely destroyed former MSN, Windows Messenger, and Skype at the end. If you look at market share for all the major messenger for the past 20+ years says enough.
    1 point
  34. 8K60 will come. That'll be closer to a GB per minute.
    1 point
  35. WhatsApp surpasses two billion users worldwide

    WhatsApp Web has some annoying limitations though that they should fix given their vast user base. 1. Allow signing in from multiple devices at a time to the web versions at least. 2. It can't even show immersive/fullscreen photos, it has a huge header and thumbnails at bottom.
    1 point
  36. WhatsApp surpasses two billion users worldwide

    They earn huge money through Instagram and Facebook to keep WhatsApp free. Instagram revenue was bigger than YouTube! Just imagine!
    1 point
  37. WhatsApp surpasses two billion users worldwide

    Monopolies are not good for consumers.
    1 point
  38. Hands on with the Windows 10X emulator

    Bwahaha🤣 You really don’t know what is going on, do you? Clearly you don’t understand the difference between type 1 and 2 hypervisors.
    1 point
  39. Not sure I follow... does the nVidia control panel have the ability to designate which GPU an application runs on? I don't currently have a PC with both integrated and dedicated GPUs to check that myself... Who needs that seriously...to have people micromanage their GPU usage? Are you kidding me? Mobile users who value battery. Duh? What mobile users are you talking about lol? Not repeating what I have already said. If you can’t read, that is your problem. Laptop users are not mobile, those are people who carry couple pounds heavy PC Desktop. Used to be heavier. Mobile users are people with Tablet or Smart Phones. Somehow definition of mobile user is lost along the way. I have ITX PC Desktop so small that is easier to carry than Laptop and it has 8/16 CPU in with 1080 ti and still it does not qualify as mobile device. There is only one type of devices Windows 10 runs on and that's PC Desktop. There are few tablet attempts here and there which had unfortunate end to it. An iPad Pro 12.9 in with the smart Keyboard Folio weighs the same as the Acer swift 7, Have similar battery life and One can get more things done in the Acer. Please sit down. You are embarrassing yourself.
    1 point
  40. Hands on with the Windows 10X emulator

    Except this one has both the user experience optimized for tablets and the compatibility with Win32 apps back to Windows 95, which Windows RT didn't have. The goal isn't just to make dual screen devices, that's just the justification for this OS differences as it isn't ready to replace Win10 Pro on desktops at this point. But the long term plan is clearly to build the next Windows, and instead of breaking compatibility and starting over again, this time they include everything. Windows 10X currently supports containers for backward compatibility with Win32 and MSIX-contained Win32 apps, but it's easy to see the possibilities... we're getting a lightweight and efficient modern OS built for WinRT, which can bring up compatibility containers for Win32 at the moment, but which is based on the same architecture as the Linux WSL2 container on desktops, and - why not - an Android container based off it as well. A single OS that can technically run WinRT, Win32, Linux and Android apps consistently. And on top of that, the UI could adapt when connected to external monitor + mouse + keyboard to turn it into a full Windows + Linux desktop. I'd rather run Linux and use Wine to run Win32 apps I need than having this abomination of Windows running its native apps in container which does not guarantee performance and also strips off user of the experience which made Windows - Windows. Making Win32 second class citizen is not going to work, clearly MS. does not understand their Windows user base. Having said that, whatever vision they have for the future, and you are right there saying Windows 10x is what they are planning on the long term, won't last. They are going to lose people to Linux at much faster rate than having Windows user base accepting this baloney. After all, 500 millions of people are still sitting in Windows 7 after 5+ years of jerking with Windows 10 which is garbage as well. If I wanted Linux experience in Windows, I go and I turn my Linux machine on to have that experience. This baloney run all in one is just baloney and waste of everyone time. Except they are not second class citizens. Your win32 apps run natively without a hit to performance (except for a tiny delay when you open a Win32 app without any others open and that’s because the system is loading the legacy Windows backend when you open a legacy Win32 app without others being open). Plus you get the benefits of not having rogue or buggy Win32 apps getting access to the native system registry since they are in containers. And when you are done running a Win32 program or when the program is idle and minimized the system either offloads the legacy backend or suspends it respectively. Also, there are already different containerization and compatibility technologies already inside Windows serving different purposes. UWP apps are inherently containerized for security and performance reasons. On 64 bit x86 systems and ARM systems, 32 bit Win32 apps are already run in a semi-containerized compatibility mode using WOW64. And there are numerous sand boxing technologies for Win32 apps already being used. So containerization is nothing new for Windows. I am really not sure why you are complaining about something that lets you run your apps in a more secure manner, with little hit to performance, and with optimizations that should yield better battery life and less resource usage when your legacy Win32 apps are closed or idle and minimized. Even the tiny launch delay, should be < 1s. We are already at the full Linux subsystem (WSL2) booting in <1s on Windows, and it has extra application and kernel states. Booting the Win32 subsystem (container) should be even more effortless and faster than WSL2 runs now on low end devices. (Anyone getting into testing, the 10x emulator is really slow, so don't take any performance or stability cues from it.)
    1 point
  41. New Microsoft 365 features aim to join productivity and security

    why don't you link to the original article / announcement?
    1 point
  42. Not sure I follow... does the nVidia control panel have the ability to designate which GPU an application runs on? I don't currently have a PC with both integrated and dedicated GPUs to check that myself... Who needs that seriously...to have people micromanage their GPU usage? Are you kidding me? Mobile users who value battery. Duh? What mobile users are you talking about lol? Not repeating what I have already said. If you can’t read, that is your problem. Laptop users are not mobile, those are people who carry couple pounds heavy PC Desktop. Used to be heavier. Mobile users are people with Tablet or Smart Phones. Somehow definition of mobile user is lost along the way. I have ITX PC Desktop so small that is easier to carry than Laptop and it has 8/16 CPU in with 1080 ti and still it does not quality as mobile device. I move around with a laptop all the time, making it and ME mobile. You are full of fud. Did I say smartphone? Tablet? Mobile DEVICE? Sure didn’t.
    1 point
  43. Not sure I follow... does the nVidia control panel have the ability to designate which GPU an application runs on? I don't currently have a PC with both integrated and dedicated GPUs to check that myself... Who needs that seriously...to have people micromanage their GPU usage? Are you kidding me? Most PC has one GPU running, and new Ryzen 4000 based CPU has only one running GPU and the only laptops which have Intel integrated GPU and dedicated NVIDIA GPU are gaming laptops for the most part and those people will set NVIDIA to be primary anyway. Lot of those devices are intelligently designed in such way that if Laptop is plugged or docked Nvidia GPU takes the primary role and if Laptop runs on battery automatically switched to integrated GPU. What MS is doing is another baloney. You act like choice is a bad thing? Just because you might not have the need for it doesn't mean everyone else doesn't. There are people who has multiple cards at work, maybe they want to be able to set a specific app to a specific task. Stop thinking you know what everyone wants.
    1 point
  44. EA is giving Need for Speed back to Criterion for future games

    The only NFS game that I REALLY loved was Need_for_Speed:_Porsche_Unleashed I really enjoyed the progress through the history to modern cars. Since then each game was more and more boring to me, and I think other racing franchises are far better.
    1 point
  45. EA is giving Need for Speed back to Criterion for future games

    And what will that do? Hot Pursuit 2010 tried to do something like the original Hot Pursuit/High Stakes with the cop chasing. If we ignore the mediocre gameplay, the game brought nothing new. Remaking the 1994 version would result in them making a quick buck from nostalgic fans, but after the initial sales, it will fall flat on its ass. I may sound skeptical, but NFS has exhausted itself, no pun intended. The only thing that can breathe life into the series, the way I see it, if I was at helm of the development team, would be to create a game that emphasizes on player skill and has no such things like AI catching up. Another thing I would add would be customization like Underground 1 - both external and internal. NFS Heat sort of copied Underground 1 in that department, but the fundamentals of the game were not there - it just felt souless and like a clone of something else. The series doesn't need a story. It needs decent gameplay and feelings of both challenge and progression. NFS Heat didn't have a challenge in the sense of difficulty, it had a challenge in the sense of challenging how long your mentality will last the brain-dead grind. Also having an open world is only but a gimmick, it never really served a bigger purpose than being a showoff of technological capabilities "Look at us, we can have an open world and your Pentium computer from 2002 won't crash!" TL;DR NFS needs: 1. proper challenge 2. feeling of progression 3. no artificial prolonging of the game with grinding
    1 point
  46. Hands on with the Windows 10X emulator

    Except this one has both the user experience optimized for tablets and the compatibility with Win32 apps back to Windows 95, which Windows RT didn't have. The goal isn't just to make dual screen devices, that's just the justification for this OS differences as it isn't ready to replace Win10 Pro on desktops at this point. But the long term plan is clearly to build the next Windows, and instead of breaking compatibility and starting over again, this time they include everything. Windows 10X currently supports containers for backward compatibility with Win32 and MSIX-contained Win32 apps, but it's easy to see the possibilities... we're getting a lightweight and efficient modern OS built for WinRT, which can bring up compatibility containers for Win32 at the moment, but which is based on the same architecture as the Linux WSL2 container on desktops, and - why not - an Android container based off it as well. A single OS that can technically run WinRT, Win32, Linux and Android apps consistently. And on top of that, the UI could adapt when connected to external monitor + mouse + keyboard to turn it into a full Windows + Linux desktop.
    1 point
  47. It really doesn't take much work to recompile your x86 Windows app into a native ARM64 one. There's a few clicks and then you wait.
    1 point
  48. Samsung Galaxy S20: Top new features

    Samsung Experience is fantastic. This isn't 2014. I missing being able to have a live wallpaper on my lock screen on my Huawei P30 Pro, like I could on my Galaxy S8+ It's not even Samsung Experience... It's called One UI.
    1 point
  49. Internet Download Manager (IDM) 6.37 Build 3 Beta [Update]

    I don’t really care how it looks. I love this program. It’s great for downloading any video you play online.
    1 point