Re:Affinity 1.10
by pjmlp on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:43PM
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Until one needs to plug a laptop into a customer beamer on a critical sales meeting.
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>plug a laptop into a customer beamer
I've had presentations where the Macbook couldn't sync and the Kubuntu Dell rescued me. Linux video is massively better than a few years ago thanks to AMD drivers being fully open source.
The same open source Radeon drivers that have dropped support for my netbook APU, downgraded to GL3.3 from GL 4.1 without hardware video decoding as previously provided by fglrx, while the Windows 8 drivers keep providing GL 4.1, DirectX 11 and hardware video decoding on Windows 10, on the same hardware.
In other words: one more reason why it is exactly like Mac 15 years ago?
15 years ago most beamers already had a little Mac OS X logo on them.
How many have a little pinguim 15 years later?
You don't need one.
Another advantage.
Of course there are things like my Canoscan 4400F that has refused to work for years, but that is so rare I can remember that particular piece of trash a decade later.