Yes, Cinnamon is good. For people who want to try/use Windows-like KDE Plasma on Ubuntu, I can recommend Feren OS.
I myself prefer Arch (and I guess Manjaro too) over Ubuntu by a lot, because of its flexibility, RebornOS/Garuda/EndeavourOS are probably good Arch distros to start with.
Btw...
With the proper cable you can directly connect up to 4 SAS drives to a miniSAS port. However, not a U.2 port, that does not support SAS, even though the physical connector is identical. U.3 will support both PCIe and SAS.
No, not really. Quite the opposite often. If you buy a soundcard that's already quite a few years old it might very well produce a less accurate signal than the onboard sound.
Not that you could hear a difference anyway in that case.
Here in Germany Crucial P1, Kingston A2000, Intel 660p seem to be the best deals for 1 TB at the moment. I would pay a little more for the Kingston one, since the other two will get quite slow after a while when you ever plan to transfer huge amounts of data to them, due to the slow QLC NAND. It...
No, not a problem. Spinning up puts stress on the platter motor, so for it, constant operation with no spinning up/down is better. A dead platter motor is relatively rare though nowadays. What really counts are activity of the read/write head and drive temperature, you want to keep those low...
Any USB drive is fine for that. Formatting a drive with DRAM write cache (like HDDs and most SSDs have) in exFAT might corrupt the filesystem though on sudden removal, which can make folders or the entire filesystem inaccessible, and it might only be repairable on Windows. Just be aware of that.
Extended writes to an SMR drive can be quite a bit slower compared to CMR. On the first write to a sector they will perform the same though. On the second write the old data has to be moved first, significantly slowing down the write operation. You can reset an SMR drive by performing an ATA...
If you want to multi-boot, make sure you stick with UEFI setup everywhere. Legacy BIOS is terrible for multi-boot. And install Windows first, since the EFI System Partition is wiped during Windows installation.
I did PCIe passthrough with QEMU/KVM once, was not that hard to set up actually...
They both use identical memory chips, and are clocked to the same frequency, which means timings might very well be identical. Crucial is just a Micron sub-brand after all.
I expect this kit to perform identical to a pair of either of those two models.
Just overall very nice defaults. It uses KDE Plasma, which is not available for Linux Mint (anymore), the most complete Linux DE in my opinion. Cinnamon is also a very nice DE, which is the default for Linux Mint.
I can also recommend trying out UbuntuDDE, which uses the Deepin Desktop Environment.
Cinnamon, the default desktop environment for Linux Mint probably uses more memory than any other Linux desktop environment.
The least memory is used by LXQt. KDE Plasma also uses astonishingly little RAM, even less than Xfce according to some more recent tests.
Still, I am very sure that this fake pen drive of yours js just an ordinary drive with fake firmware on it that makes the drive look like a much bigger one. Those are harmless as long as you know that data you put on them might be lost forever.
USB killers aren't normal pen drives, I am sure...
I am very sure that the fake pen drive didn't cause this. You either used the software on the wrong drive or that pen drive just suddenly died.
You sometimes need a third-party partition manager on Windows to format a drive with a broken or non-standard file system table.
I've used f3 on Linux to successfully determine the actual size of the drive. f3 can also automatically fix the drive by creating a partition of the correct size.
I had such an issue once, screen would go black about twice a week, laptop wouldn't accept any input, Memtest86+ ran fine, performance was also good. It turned out that what caused the issue was a hair that was between one RAM module and the contacts.
Thunderbolt 3 and 4 are basically identical aside from the USB part. Both have 4 PCIe 3.0 lanes. And USB 3.x and 4.0 are also completely intercompatible.
For MP3 I never bothered with constant bitrate, I always chose one of the three presets of the LAME encoder, "medium, "standard" or "extreme".
Constant bitrate is a waste of space.
I always set quality instead of bitrate when possible.
When encoding to a lossy format I normally choose Vorbis with the aoTuV encoder with Lancer patch, normally at quality 5 (~160 kbit/s, tends to overshoot), or 7 (~224 kbit/s) for transparency even in rare edge cases.
For Opus a target...
Windows only writes RAM that's actually used to disk for hibernation. But I don't think a VM manager can know what bytes in the RAM of the virtual machine are important or not, so it probably has to store every single byte of the virtual RAM to disk.
That temperature is just the highest temperature a sensor on the SSD measures, which is most likely at the DRAM chip. The NAND is probably much cooler. That concentrated heat source at the DRAM cache is also the reason why even the simplest heat spreaders for Nvme SSDs normally reduce the SMART...
Raising the prices when demand is higher than supply is the natural thing to do.
Artifically keeping the supply low is something you do when prices are too low for sales to be profitable.
For drawing and photo editing the integrated GPU is more than enough. For video editing it makes a big difference though for real-time playback of some effects.
The GIGABYTE Aero 15 OLED seems to be the cheapest option, it only has a GTX 1650, don't know if it's enough for all your video editing...
I'd say go for a laptop with a 2160p OLED screen, they seem to have all amazing color accuracy, and perfect contrast too. At 4K the slight fuzziness of OLED displays because of the different sub-pixel layout also shouldn't be an issue.
IPS panels with bad color accuracy don't seem to exist...
Why would a PCIe slot using CPU pcie lanes be brought down to x8 mode when an SSD is put into a slot connected to chipset PCIe slots? That doesn't make much sense to me. Switching between different PCIe lane sources sounds way too complicated for a normal consumer board to me.
For the same...
G-Sync is just a marketing name nowadays. The old G-Sync technology is now marketed under G-Sync Ultimate and isn't possible in an Nvidia Optimus configuration, excluding its use in laptop that also try to provide decent battery life. Standard G-Sync monitors and displays use VESA Adaptive Sync...
I think in the consumer space there are pretty much only single-rank and dual-rank modules. For the memory controller handling one dual-rank module per channel is pretty much the same as handling two single-rank modules per channel. Unlike with multiple RAM channels having more ranks doesn't...
I think one battery life test isn't enough. Different systems can perform very differently under idle, low, medium and heavy CPU load. To actually give useful information to all types of users you'd need to measure battery life under different real-time workloads with different intensity...
Screen brightness and loudness of the speakers would need to be set as close as possible to a standardized level, not "80%", otherwise you'd skew the results and encourage laptop manufacturers to put dim displays and quiet speakers in their laptops.
I also think calling this a "torture test" is...
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