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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Sounds nice, but why use an Nvidia card in a purpose-built Linux box? Obviously they must have made it work well with their default OS options, but it just feels like extra hurdles for them to work through.

Also, why not support AMD for actually appearing to give a shit about Linux open-source drivers? I was a longtime Nvidia user but switched to AMD on my latest build. Given how much better everything seems to work out of the box, they've earned my loyalty for the foreseeable future.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Amd can be quite hard to work with as a small vendor and even though they have a current product with them it takes alot of time, and money to get a new one. If they can

The excuse, which I believe, is that AMD is relatively small and can only do buisness with so many people Whereas nvidia is massive, and multiple smaller companies along with the main one will be in a much better place to supply GPUs.

Completely agree though, I would much prefer an all amd option.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

That makes a lot of sense from a small-business perspective. I appreciate your insight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Because nvidia isn't as hard to get working as people pretend it is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Maybe ODM they get devices from to rebrand does not have AMD option for this model? ツ

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not just Stellaris. But Stellaris with the last 17 DLCs.

[–] loo 2 points 7 months ago

I love Stellaris, but I hate Paradox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i just gave up on it, the performance is unbearably slow on bigger games

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

But Stellaris is a 2D strategy game, more CPU-bound?

[–] hperrin 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

€2,100 for the base model.

€4,200 for top of the line.

Why would I want to replace my desktop with this?

[–] TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because you're a stupid consoomer. You can build a 4 liter ITX desktop that's cheaper, faster, more reliable and easier to repair than these stupid "desktop replacements". Plus for the price difference you can buy a "thin and lite" laptop so that you won't have to carry this monster around when you just need to reply to emails on the go.

edit: just to clarify I'm not saying you in particular are a stupid consoomer, just the person in the given example. People tend to get angry fast on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

laptops are only replacing desktops for me when they start making them modular