Re:Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur
by SaltyBackendGuy on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:39PM
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This have been my experience also. It takes a little bit to get the configuration where I like it, but it's solid after that. Especially if you have top tier hardware (which you can actually upgrade, which is also nice).
Re:Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur
by trynewideas on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:08PM
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I switched from Lenovo to Acer because the Lenovo crapware had become horrific. Broke my heart because I'd been a longtime ThinkPad user, but going from a solid X220 to a P1 that failed in two years, to a crapware-laden Yoga that had multiple failures in the first 6 months just killed any love I had for the brand.
Acer's hardware is inferior in every measurable spec but hasn't failed me yet, and that's frankly all I want from it. It works and it stays out of my way.
Re:Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur
by DangitBobby on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:19PM
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Nvidia advertises it's new drivers in a pop-up with "GForce Experience" or whatever. You have to have an account with Nvidia (???!!?) to download this advertised driver.
Re:Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur
by ranfbejd on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:25PM
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Geforce experience is entirely superfluous, really. I'd John st deinstall it. You can adjust almost everything from the control panel anyway
Re:Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur
by DangitBobby on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:22AM
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I was just explaining what the other guy was talking about. My Windows 10 experience has been pretty good.
Re:Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur
by higerordermap on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @09:32AM
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> I removed the default tiles and I'm just using stuff I manually pinned
Yeah IIRC they can also resize the start menu manually if they don't want any tiles.
> Animated ads in the start menu tiles
I wouldn't know, I removed the default tiles and I'm just using stuff I manually pinned.
> I've had to upgraded and restart almost every other day for 4 weeks
My uptime currently is 7 days, last reboot was me wanting to manually upgrade to 20H2. YMMV.
> There are ads that keep reapparing in the tiles on update
Hasn't happened to me.
> there are constant popus reminding me to log in to my windows account
I'm using a local account, I don't get any popup to log in using my Microsoft account.
> nVidia ads popping up in the lower-right corner
How? I've never seen this in my life. I'm running an NVIDIA card.
> MSoft ads popping up in the lower-right corner
I think I got the "you should upgrade to New Edge" popup once, doesn't appear anymore because I did (I wanted to try it out)
> Also, day one: tried installing some LabView software and BSOD
No BSOD yet, but YMMV, drivers can vary in quality.
> Starting a new app takes about 15~30 seconds
I wouldn't know. I've got 64 GB of RAM and a fast NVMe. Nothing loads in more than one second from cold start for me.
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Either brand PC are loaded with additional crap (of course I ran the O&O Shut Up 10 thing just after first installation) or my experience is much nicer than I've read on this forum.