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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by jstanley on Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:27AM (#17826050)
It has actually been perfectly viable to escape Intel and (especially) Microsoft for a very long time. Lots of people on HN have done so.

Buy an AMD machine, install Ubuntu, and you're done.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by moolcool on Thursday August 23, 2018 @09:49AM (#17827198)
>gaming PC

>Ubuntu

Hope he likes Mahjong and Tux Racer

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by btym on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:22PM (#17829504)
WINE + DXVK can pretty much run any modern game (with varying performance).
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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by chrisper on Thursday August 23, 2018 @10:01AM (#17827282)
Have you not heard of Valve's Proton? It's the next best thing!
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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by moolcool on Thursday August 23, 2018 @01:36PM (#17829120)
It has potential, but when I want to unwind and fire up a game, the last thing I want to do is deal with the rigmarole of alpha software
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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by holtalanm on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:39AM (#17828137)
yeah.... OpenGL is so far from Dx in terms of performance that it is laughable.
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