Are they buying them to better kill them?

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Awesome it is so tedious to do it manually.

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I have stopped purchasing coolermaster psu and case since a few years, and I don't regret it even more now :p

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So much improvements on linux theses days. The only thing it needs, is more user. I hope if this trend continues, and that more and more windows game run out of the box on our platform, it might in the end be considered by big publishers. I can't believe some poeple believed in windows 10, and still some people upgrade to this terrible os for basic uses.

I keep a partition with windows 7 that I never boot. Since I first tried linux, I never looked back, most distro are far more stable and easy to use than what windows has become. There is diversity and recently the new designs and UI are also looking nicer and nicer.

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If you don't stand more than 1meter from your screen, I even think 1900*1200 @24" inch is the best choice for quality, value for money and very long term run.
Because 16/10 will never disappear. 99% take 16/10 into account, where it is not the case for 16/9 because anything released before 2007 has either 4:3 or 16:10 ratio, so I think there are less games overall adapted to 16/9 than 16/10.

If you pick 1440p you need high end graphic card to make everything run smooth, and it oblige you to change more often and spend way lot more than for 1080p ibn the graphic card. 1200p is the good compromise, because you get a tiny bit more graphic quality and don't loose too much fps. And everything run smooth for years.

My cpu is from 2011 (9years old), my graphic card 2015 (5years old), and I can still play most modern game with good graphic quality using the right setups. (don't put shadows on high for instance, disable few unnecessary effect that use a lot of bandwidth and don't make the game look better)

In fact with a vega 56, I think I could continue to play all game in high/medium for the next 7years. This card keeps getting better an better with the opensource driver. It is sometime very close from the RTX2080 whiwh was released two years later and was costing twice the price of the vega, and especially because with such easy downvolting and overclocking you can achieve very very easily a 20/25% peformance boost.

Sorry for going off topic, but reading something so wrong on 16/10 could not be accepted for me. I spend 6years everyday studiying the best screens and every technological aspect of all the different panel/size, reactivity, input lag, panel uniformity... And really it's a good if not the best ratio.

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I wish 16:10 screens would come back. :-(

Why? It's the worst ratio ever. I'm glad that it died.

It's actually the best ratio for computer use. It is designed to have more space and all 16/10 have better dot pitch than 16/9 which mean nicer image. I can understand that you don't like this aspect ratio, but i think it's because you got used to 16/9 and because for intance you had a 16/10 19"screen, and you replaced it with a 24" 16/9 so it seems a lot more confortabkle, but the same 24 inch in 16/10 is even more confotable, the fact that you get heigh is perfet for any kind of work. Writing text or coding for instance is always set verticaly, even when you browse the web on 16/9 half of the screen is lost, whereas on 16/10 it looks less stupid. It is also better for the movie imo.

Have something very large like 16/9 is only good for car or sim game. Everytime i see a 16/9 i'm like it is not high enough ,and way too large, feeling too low. Especially on computer, because this ratio comes from TV and gaming on console. But on pc you are close to your computer, and it makes no sens to have a large screen, because you loose a lot of focus in fps, the larger it is the more effort you have to provide with your eyes and brain, and you eyes fatigue way quicker. Originaly computer for work were a square not a rectangle, and it was perfect outside of the fact they were very heavy and very big.

Back in the 90' you already had resolution similar or biger than 1440p on some basic 19" screen which make a dot pitch better than 4k on a 27".

By the way every screen manufacturer create new model of every 2 years or 3 years, of 16/10 because they are perfect for work. And most of the time they also have IPS panel which looks a lot better than so washed colors on classic TN panels.

I have done 16/10 19"==> 24" 16/9 and 24" 16/10, I will never come back to this non natural 16/9

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I see all kind of good choice and compromize in the hardware which makes it a decent price for what if offers.

Usually I find the tuxedo a bit too expensive, but here it's pretty good because you get the GTX1650 and an i5. 8gb of ram is sufficient despite what many can think, and it can be upgraded later if really needed.

Very good offer with low power consumption also and you can bring this computer everywhere with you and do improvised lan parties :p

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Love the bike scene too.

. Same here, this particular sequence made my day ^^

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As far as I'm concerned, this is a great news. This is really what video game was all about during the 90's. Complete freedom of speech, no judgement, and a lot of fun in the end. The soundtrack made by Cypress Hill is also very good. In French the translation was really great, so many cool swearwords ^^

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I don't even care about the refund. I just find it sad, because it was one of the only universal game which played on any computer and consoles. On top of that I really enjoy to be able to play with my friends on windows. The money made only on windows and console should be enough to maintain the game for decades on linux and mac, but too much greed from epic...

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