Quoting: GBeeYeah, my current laptop is high-end Dell. Honestly if a Ryzen based XPS comes to market it will be an instant purchase for me - even with the Windows tax.

There is some law I think (maybe just europe, maybe elsewhere too), that if you don't want windows and they don't offer a version without it, you can get them to refund the windows tax.

Maybe look into that!

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@collabora, ANGLE has es3 supported on ARM through Vulkan + es31 pending upcoming Vulkan features.

Maybe don't waste your time? Contribute to desktop GL support in ANGLE, and everyone would benefit instead.

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Whatever happened to mrdeathjr?

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Quoting: ageres

The developer quickly changed the asset name but there's another problem, as Steam won't update just because file case changed.

Does that mean that Steam servers run on Windows?

Probably more that their diff tool uses case-insensitive path compares unconditionally (instead of on stupid platforms only)

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I installed it on my under-tv pc a month ago, works quite nicely!

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Ok, I'm not surprised he's the same d*ck he always was, but it's not very clear still. Is all his money in a charity fund? Or does he just donate as much as he would have otherwise had to pay in taxes?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyGates does genuinely give away a huge amount of money to charity. But, to be specific, Gates has established a huge charitable fund, which he controls, which doesn't pay taxes because it's a charity. So the process of giving to charity doesn't really reduce the amount of money that he has under his control. I don't know whether he actually gives away more money than he would have paid in taxes.
This charitable fund of course has investments. Some specific areas of heavy investment include pharmaceutical companies and private education. Gates then structures the fund's charitable donations in ways that seek to shape the ways that countries approach relevant issues. So for instance, in terms of public health, Gates donations steer a country's public health emphasis towards buying expensive patented drugs (creating profits for pharmaceutical companies) and away from, say, buying mosquito netting, which might be more cost effective in saving lives. Similarly, in the United States, the Gates foundation lobbies consistently for the privatization of education, which in my opinion is a Bad Thing, so as to increase the profits of the private education companies it has investments in (perhaps Gates himself also has an ideological belief in private education, with which I would disagree). Stuff like that. So I feel Gates' charitable donations are more problematic than one might think at first glance. He wields his charity somewhat the way the IMF wields its loans.

Do you have any references for this?

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What's wrong with microsoft? Two words: vendor lock-in. Look it up, there's even an internal quote from microsoft in the vendor lock-in Wikipedia page saying the only reason they were still in business is vendor lock-in. That's also how they killed oh so many good things for their own survival.

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If you look at stackoverflow surveys, you can easily gather that there are a good deal of developers that prefer Linux, but have to use windows for work. Developers alone being at home and on their favorite os can probably explain this completely.

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Or they could have just used ANGLE to get gles up to 3.1 over Vulkan.

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