I dual boot Arch Linux and Windows 11 on separate drives. I would go fully Arch because I love the idea of a DIY OS, especially for programming & game performance, but games like CoD are keeping me stuck with Windows.
Have you considered using a virtual machine with GPU pass-through? That’s what I’d do if I wanted to game. Though I guess if you want to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your system it’s best to stick with dual-boot. Conversely, if you don’t mind a marginal performance drop it’s certainly worth looking at.
You mean like a portable thin client or something? I generally use a remote access tool if I want to remotely control something and I don’t care about a little lag. Things like VNC in the free realm (watch the security on the local network though). You still need some basic local OS though, but they do make ones that are like a chromebook - but then you don’t even really save money, so…
The other way round would be to get a laptop that you use for everything and a good (good luck with this) dock that you plug the laptop into to give you the full monitor and stuff at your desk.
So you’d have basically a non-laptop that you could only use within like 30-ish feet of your desktop. You could have access to powerful pc that’s incredibly lightweight.
Well it wouldn’t be a lot of trouble if it were mass-produced. It would be way cheaper than even a tablet.
Weird that the computer companies want to just keep selling us computers, right?
I mean imagine if an ipad just connected to a desktop instead of running its own processor? You could have the power and storage of a desktop that you can customize to your specs, but access it in whichever way is more convenient.
I dual boot Arch Linux and Windows 11 on separate drives. I would go fully Arch because I love the idea of a DIY OS, especially for programming & game performance, but games like CoD are keeping me stuck with Windows.
Have you considered using a virtual machine with GPU pass-through? That’s what I’d do if I wanted to game. Though I guess if you want to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your system it’s best to stick with dual-boot. Conversely, if you don’t mind a marginal performance drop it’s certainly worth looking at.
This is off topic, but have you ever heard of a - and I don’t know if this is the right word or even a thing, “non-pc”?
Basically I’d like to have my desktop output a wireless HDMI and a bluetooth keyboard/mouse.
And then I would have a wireless monitor, attached to the wireless hdmi. So it’d be like a laptop that is just a proxy for my desktop.
Does that exist?
You mean like a portable thin client or something? I generally use a remote access tool if I want to remotely control something and I don’t care about a little lag. Things like VNC in the free realm (watch the security on the local network though). You still need some basic local OS though, but they do make ones that are like a chromebook - but then you don’t even really save money, so…
The other way round would be to get a laptop that you use for everything and a good (good luck with this) dock that you plug the laptop into to give you the full monitor and stuff at your desk.
So imagine a desktop connected to your tv with an hdmi cable. You’d see the screen on your tv, and you’d have a wireless keyboard/mouse.
Now replace the cable with a wireless hdmi dongle - like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q64M71N
Now replace your tv with a portable monitor like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNWWF32B
So you’d have basically a non-laptop that you could only use within like 30-ish feet of your desktop. You could have access to powerful pc that’s incredibly lightweight.
So I guess you can do all that, but it seems like a lot of trouble for something very few people would want to me.
Well it wouldn’t be a lot of trouble if it were mass-produced. It would be way cheaper than even a tablet.
Weird that the computer companies want to just keep selling us computers, right?
I mean imagine if an ipad just connected to a desktop instead of running its own processor? You could have the power and storage of a desktop that you can customize to your specs, but access it in whichever way is more convenient.