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  1. BRUT

    0-20k Laptop for Linux, web based work.

    Budget 10k- 22k. But if you know of something appropriate but more expensive still let me know. No screen size preference. A sturdy keyboard is required. 8GB ram or more. Intel or AMD.
  2. Veek M

    SSD IOPS - sequential vs 4k rw?

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ext4/overview.html#block-and-inode-allocation-policy Basically says that the FS tries to keep things sequential in 128MB chunks and spread the 128MB chunks out across the entire disk at the directory level while keeping the inode close to the...
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    Linux A large amount of games on Steam are coming to Linux

    Source: https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561 Reddit thread on this: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/997cjx/new_version_of_steam_play_windows_games_on_linux/
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    Linux Lutris - open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux.

    Source: Lutris Open Gaming Platform I don't game at all, but i keep hearing that this is the better version of getting games to run on linux now. seems to be better than even PlayonLinux.
  5. cool_cat

    Linux Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem

    Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 20 December 2017 at 05:55 AM EST. Canonical has temporarily pulled the download links for Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" from the Ubuntu website due to ongoing reports of some laptops...
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    Linux PS3 Media Server for linux is awesome

    I think after installing 3 different media servers on Linux Mint, this is the best out of all. Story: I wanted to stream HEVC 1080p content to my android box connected via gigabit network. The android box can play 8/10bit hevc/ x264/ mp4, flac, and various other formats, but it stutters on...
  7. cool_cat

    Monitors Anyone here who has Dell E1914H monitor? - A small help needed.

    Hi, I've recently bought a Dell E1914H monitor for the desktop (office use). The problem is, it has only vga input and from the graphics card, so I used a DVI to Vga converter to connect the monitor. Somehow monitor's resolution is undetected in Linux. I am wondering whether it is the EDID data...
  8. anish_sha

    Suggest a "lightweight " OS for netbook

    Hi, I ahve a old sony netbook having Atom Processor 1.83 ghz 2Gb DDR2 ram , Suggest me a Lightweight OS for this preferably a windows and a linux