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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
  20. 2 points
  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. Xiaomi announces the Mi 10 in China, global launch delayed

    DxOMark gave it the top place in camera until they test Galaxy S20. But the extremely curved edges ruin it for me.
    1 point
  30. 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.
    1 point
  31. Canonical pushes fourth point release for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

    No, Mint on has three point releases that coincide with inter-LTS Ubuntu releases. Mint will still get all the updates through update manager as individual update though. Exactly what I thought. Thanks
    1 point
  32. Hands on with Samsung's new foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Z Flip

    The slight crease in the middle of a flip phone is nothing to get hot and bothered about. The long overdue sensible form factor is the important feature. Now, for widespread adoption, the price needs to become reasonable. One way would be to make a similar device that is just a phone, not an overly-teched gizmo, as was the original Motorola RAZR decades ago.
    1 point
  33. Someone has to be the first, I see no reason to bash Samsung. Samsung is another one of these over hyped companies, that people think is cool if they have one of their products. Overpriced a lot of it and yet no better quality than any other, reminds me of Sony back in the day. Everyone was saying Sony is this and sony is that and yet there was far better out there and cheaper. like Awia and then it got gobbled up by sony and went downhill i have a old Toshiba Hi-fi which i now use for a amp for this computer, over 25 years old it is and still working fine, sound is amazing, cheaper than a Sony at the time. i do not like Samsung TV sets either.
    1 point
  34. i really do not see the point, there are very few ways to watch 8K, in fact there are still a load of homes that do not have 4K. i only have 4k on this monitor. Samsung is just trying to be first with a technology that very few people are going to use for a few more years at least., Typical Samsung.
    1 point
  35. WhatsApp surpasses two billion users worldwide

    I still think that they should bring back the yearly fee for this. To make sure it stays ad free.
    1 point
  36. EA is giving Need for Speed back to Criterion for future games

    Off topic, but I'd like to see another Burnout game.
    1 point
  37. Meeehh.... sounds like yet another FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) story. Just use long passwords that are unique to all devices and all accounts and you are fine. I guess some people don't do that, but that's their problem. This is the one-liner I use to generate passwords in PowerShell; -join(48..57+65..90+97..122|ForEach-Object{[char]$_}|Get-Random -C (Get-Random -Minimum 20 -Maximum 30))
    1 point
  38. 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? Laptop users are not mobile users and that's the only device I can think of to be somewhat mobile that runs Windows 10. As I said most of those devices have on GPU to start with. If laptop users are not considered mobile users within your definitions, what do they fall under exactly? I mean, laptops are meant to be used on the go, aka mobile workstations. Not sure I am following your logic.
    1 point
  39. Propaganda and you're falling for it. There is NO evidence of any wrong doing by Huawei. I'm no fan of any communist regime but I'm even a lesser fan of propaganda and disinformation. If what you say was true, the phones wouldn't even get into the west, period. Same as their routers, give it just a seconds thought to figure out why. ...didn't Vodafone fine 26+ backdoors within their routers though? Huawei's name isn't completely clean, but I do agree with you that the US disposition of Huawei is more about China than the company itself. https://www.bloomberg.com/news...ckdoors-in-huawei-equipment Edit: And before some jackass starts with whatabouts, understand that I don't condone spying from the US either, as someone against the Patriot Act and similar policies held by US/EU government bodies.
    1 point
  40. 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. No, what Microsoft is doing is listening to users that want to be able to control what app gets run on which GPU when the OS doesn't make the right choice automatically. Yes, as you said it is designed to be automatic, but nothing is perfect so of course there will be cases where it gets it wrong. Games should run on the powerful GPU, less resource-hungry apps can run on the integrated GPU and save power. By the way this feature isn't new, they're just updating it to be pre-populated with apps so it's less work on the user. Whether or not a laptop is a mobile device is just arguing semantics. No it's not what we've come to refer to as "mobile device" (though I'm not sure where you draw the line on what that includes), but they're definitely a lot easier to take with you than a desktop. I'm sure there are devices with both a dedicated and an integrated GPU that fall outside of the "gaming laptop" category. Shucks, something like the Surface Book for example. He is the only person who said mobile device. I said mobile user. He invented an issue where there was none.
    1 point
  41. Pretty much all the apps Microsoft built for Windows 10 is terrible.
    1 point
  42. Why so much Google junk dependency in the news comment section?

    Analytics, font rendering, ads. They aren’t going to change it, and honestly they don’t need to.
    1 point
  43. Samsung Galaxy S20: Top new features

    Those are the best new features? Jesus, I don't find a single one of those things interesting. I charge my phone overnight. The quality of that smeary video is not impressive. And how many of us are vloggers and give a rat's ass about front-facing camera switching? We're through adding exciting features to phones, aren't we?
    1 point
  44. And this will likely be the last year it sees a new OS version. Highly recommend as a hard-pass, especially with an HDD.
    1 point
  45. 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. Samsung Experience 10 is basically One UI. But yes, you're right. Actually, they are not the same. Samsung Experience succeeded TouchWiz, and One UI succeeded Samsung Experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_UI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Experience
    1 point
  46. I hope Google gets the same treatment it gives everyone else who wants to appeal a decision that is made by the tech sector. They deserve nothing more. They should understand they broke the rules whatever they are, and got caught. Now they pay.
    1 point
  47. Samsung Galaxy S20: Top new features

    Haha what?! S8 and S9 are hands down the best phones I have ever owned, I came from Iphones and Windows Phone. The only thing that is lacking is the keyboard where Microsoft WP keyboard is the best one I ever used.
    1 point
  48. Samsung Galaxy S20: Top new features

    Yep have to agree with Elliot B. - An S10 user here and they really have refined the UI over the last few years.
    1 point
  49. 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.
    1 point
  50. Exactly, we had the same rubbish a few years ago when London Underground started to install wifi coverage for central London, because it was Chinese equipment, GCHQ had a wobbly, I think it still ended up being used anyway. I think if a country is investing in foreign tech, it should also be smart enough to completely evaluate the equipment and firmware it will be using? Hell my own cable tv provider provides its own firmware for the cable routers given out to customers??
    1 point