I mean, with winter coming in, and universities not bothering to heat the building, teams turning my potato work laptop into a furnace is the only thing keeping us warm this winter...
Serious question - is their long term strategy bad optimisation to sell hardware? Do they have shares in intel or something?!?
Surprised Pikachu is much surprised.
Counteroffer - spend that $30 on a drink and turn them down. Just keep on using windows 10 and clog up their support tickets ^_^
Hits buzzer
The big windows 10 problem is that it updates to windows 11.
Might be worth spinning up an external 1080ti on the lappy and see if the magic is finally there!
I'm not entirely sold - a lot of the time when troubleshooting games for my Ubuntu lappy I stumble across Nvidia issue threads.
The question isn't really "ads or subs" these days, it's "your data or your dollar", and in this situation there is no good option (since your dollar is the perfect identifier for your data!).
Academia would like a word.
Prays that 2025 is the year for solid NVIDIA support for Linux
You just captured the daily life of a UK academic after the catastrophically low recruitment numbers this year.
I absolutely don't use notepad++ as my main IDE... Honest.
You know, one wonders if all academic works should be released under "academic license"...
Might be nice to sting these big companies for our free labour.