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3 hours ago, WinterGreenWolf said:
All of my rig is custom built, also I notice the inverse. Data tends to randomly vanish with MS Updates and random patches. Now, here's what I'll say: use what works for you.
Though, Linux, once you set up things correctly (with a power distro, or a distro like Linux Mint) it tends to work MUCH better, and longer than Windows IMO.
Haha! Mint's among my favourite's also for Linux. Ubuntu is, hit and miss. Debian, Fedora etc, all have their draws and setbacks. I use centOS mainly for my custom web builds. The one and only reason why I swapped out custom hardware for branded, is because they do the same thing.
The best Windows computer experience I've ever had was on HP as they tended to last longer than any other brand I've owned. MSI is a close second, but I've gone from a laptop to a desktop user in general because all the parts of a desktop are modular, the ones I buy anyways. Soldered on parts don't work for me, not when I can rip out a mother board, CPU and related Wifi card, swap them out and still have a tower to play with for extra slots. But building towers from scratch, means everything is custom including finding drivers that work with the motherboard and finding compatible parts. Branded PC's are just as good, because some of them provide documentation. Once you've seen many cases, I tend to find it doesn't matter what you buy because the best parts of the case are all replaceable. Windows on the other hand, has specific driver specifications that fall out of favour as it grows older. I've had issues where one day, an update caused my sound drivers to not work at all in Windows. But if I put Linux on, it recognized them right away. That's when and where I decided my next computer would be a desktop from a laptop. In fact my only need for laptops was portability. Now they make desktop PCs with Mini ATX cards in them, so I can carry the entire case in a backpack and you can get really great performance out of those custom machines just like you could a typical laptop.
Everybody says custom is best. If you've got the money to spend, and the time to put cases and screws together, I'm sure it'd last you quite awhile. What I do is buy the base package of a computer, for its case alone, and then replace parts in it to get the best experience of brand support and customization once I figure out through the case documentation, what it can handle.
I guess you could compare this experience to being a car mechanic, fixing up junk yard cars, versus being a car enthusiast, fixing up and customizing base cars with other parts that fit inside an already built shell. I said previously that custom and brand cases function the same, and the reason why this matters to me is because at the end of the day, a computer just gets me online doing what I enjoy. Communicating, learning and sharing experiences and ideas with people of like mind. So without the hassle of staying on top of newer technologies, if I maximize my storage space, ram and CPU power along with a graphics card that works for a few years, I'm basically all set. The rest is flexible. I look for what gets me through the day, and stylishly makes me feel at home using it.
When I'm watching porn, I'm on Windows most of the time and usually the computer is offline when I load those files. When I'm streaming videos, I'm on Linux because it has better buffering support for larger stream sizes. When I'm on the internet, believe it or not, Firefox on Linux is way faster than it is on Windows. Same with Chromium and its derivitives. Linux has amazing desktop environments, Windows is bloated for that reason alone. You can customize it, but not as well. I like to maximize my windows when I'm focusing on something, and in Linux, I do that just that much easier without having to think about it. Windows on the other hand, takes more time to load things. On a 64gig machine of DDR4 ram, and about 26 TB inside of storage space, 2TB of NVME the rest being 7200RPM, AMD threadripper 2920 and NVIDIA RTX 2060 6GBDDR6, Windows uses on average 16 gigs of ram for Windows 10 while Linux used 1.2 Gigs if that at max performance. And CPU, network and disk remained at 1% on Windows, and 0.2% on Linux. What gets me through switching OS's is portable Firefox profiles transferring data offline, without having to use a sync option. Again, Windows is faster at multitasking file data because it can open up multiple file windows without any hassle. Linux has to open up a queue to do things, and that takes for ever and is more time consuming to manage. So that is why for online related things, I dual boot Linux more for that purpose alone. It's actually more difficult to setup Linux as a virtual machine on Windows than it is just to run it alongside.
I love them both, but if Windows ever became less bloated, or this new Windows 10X became usable outside of major laptops, I'd consider switching to something lighter. Hackintosh for instance, that could be the best of both worlds. I'm keeping an eye out for their exit of intel based CPU's precisely for that reason alone, departing the X86 platform entirely. I find that with multiple computers, local intranets are priceless and with a NAS, some of that storage can be made external for just that reason alone making things a lot more convenient for multitasking.
God if only censorship could be left behind in favour of true progress, our cyber world could become a lot more friendly again. It's built on the basis of misunderstanding, and a lack of care for others anyways. Forums and videos tend to draw us in, whereas social media tends to keep us opinionated. Computers are what we all have in common, I do my best to make them apart of our lives, working towards a community rather than an isolated home.
