I even use it on all my USB drives even though it's a bit atypical.
Is it a problem when plugging on different hardware, like Windows, Mac OSes ?
Anonymous
Chungy
not for any of my stuff. Windows accepts it fine, as does my Blu-ray player and SmartTV
Chungy
mileage may very. There's probably hardware out there that doesn't support it.
Anonymous
not for any of my stuff. Windows accepts it fine, as does my Blu-ray player and SmartTV
Well, it's exotic enough to see it working on a lot of hardware
Anonymous
Hearing Blu ray almost makes me cry
That format was forgotten, and never mass used
I find at the trash bluray players more and more often these days
And most of them work
Chungy
both of them also support exFAT which is not a universal thing either, but does help as I often have video files exceeding 4GiB (the limit on FAT32)
Chungy
I prefer getting shows/movies on Blu-ray. I don't like to be beholden to whatever licensing deals exist on streaming services or whatever companies happen to have not gone out of business yet.
Anonymous
I prefer getting shows/movies on Blu-ray. I don't like to be beholden to whatever licensing deals exist on streaming services or whatever companies happen to have not gone out of business yet.
There's ways to get Bluray working on Linux as well, like MakeMKV and VLC with libaacs stuff, and it works rather well on decent hardware
But for the machine I have to play Bluray, an old Shuttle from 2005, Windows is the only possibility to get it playing smoothly
Chungy
small advantage too, the days of basic DVD releases in addition to a special edition have mostly gone away. The casuals stick to streaming and Blu-ray is almost always what you need to get for the bonus features (commentary et al).
Chungy
yeah I know. I have a Blu-ray drive in my desktop and I run Linux.
Anonymous
small advantage too, the days of basic DVD releases in addition to a special edition have mostly gone away. The casuals stick to streaming and Blu-ray is almost always what you need to get for the bonus features (commentary et al).
Yeah, the BD format is still so massive that you can store everything you want inside only one disc
Chungy
depends on what you store xD
Anonymous
depends on what you store xD
For storing a 2:30 movie with 5 sound languages with either DTS or Dolby encoding, subtitles, 30+ minutes of bonus content, all of which at 1080p24, is doable on Bluray discs
Chungy
and if you're picky about quality it tends to benefit too. Movies are usually encoded in around 35-40GB on a Blu-ray Disc versus ~10-15GB on streaming services. Video quality is noticably superior. Most audio tracks are in lossless formats (Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD MA being the main ones)
Anonymous
and if you're picky about quality it tends to benefit too. Movies are usually encoded in around 35-40GB on a Blu-ray Disc versus ~10-15GB on streaming services. Video quality is noticably superior. Most audio tracks are in lossless formats (Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD MA being the main ones)
True, I never saw anyone complaining about Bluray picture and sound quality
Chungy
at least here in the US, 4K Blu-ray releases are always packaged with the 1080p disc too and it seems they most frequently dedicate the whole of the 4K Blu-ray Disc (they're normally on 75GB or 100GB discs) to the movie alone and bonus features are relegated to only being on the 1080p disc (usually 50GB discs)
Anonymous
at least here in the US, 4K Blu-ray releases are always packaged with the 1080p disc too and it seems they most frequently dedicate the whole of the 4K Blu-ray Disc (they're normally on 75GB or 100GB discs) to the movie alone and bonus features are relegated to only being on the 1080p disc (usually 50GB discs)
Interesting, but considering 4K is still kind of a niche market, and most people are still using 1080p TVs it kind of makes sense
Chungy
indeed. also I'm not convinced 4K really makes an appreciable benefit over 1080p for video :b
Anonymous
I'd rather buy a high quality 1080p OLED rather than a cheap 4K TV that often do not have local dimming, poor backlight that never goes more to 500nits for HDR, and never have Dolby Vision
Plus I'm not a fan of Smart TVs, I'd rather put something way more powerful to work as a Smart TV
Chungy
I have 4K monitors on my desktop and I've compared both native res and 1080p in games and movies and... the difference is slight. the main benefit to these monitors is work. :P
Anonymous
I have 4K monitors on my desktop and I've compared both native res and 1080p in games and movies and... the difference is slight. the main benefit to these monitors is work. :P
Yeah, you get more screen real astate, but that's pretty much it ;)
Stas'M
https://twitter.com/olegdubinskij21/status/1217901958398382080
Stas'M
ReactOS on a modern PC with Realtek HD Audio 😎
Leon
I love watching this project getting more advanced every day.
⚶ VΛNILLΛ
:)
Anonymous
My very bad,but you normal
Anonymous
I know,but 2 gb for me it wish
Anonymous
And...I have 2 VPS servers with 8 and 16 gb RAM
Anonymous
Well hello there everyone !
Jose
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I’m going to install ReactOS instead of Linux for a friend (though he wants Linux more)
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Chungy
If it's a main OS, that's a bad idea.
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Why bad idea? Already late alpha thanks?
Alexander
"late alpha"
Chungy
It's only alpha and there's compatibility problems everywhere
Alexander
If you are installing it on a second pc of him, it is ok...
... but on a main computer? 🤔
Are you interested in ending the friendship? ;)
Julen
I’m going to install ReactOS instead of Linux for a friend (though he wants Linux more)
Your friend only want a typewriter?
Anonymous
Why bad idea? Already late alpha thanks?
It's far from "late alpha", it's pretty much early alpha
Anonymous
Eris
you saying that linux by itself is a memory hog?
Eris
uh huh
Anonymous
Gnome, KDE, Deepin and other DEs of that type are pretty much unusable on 2GB of RAM
Eris
you do realize that lightweight solutions exist
Eris
right
Eris
lxde and xfce
Anonymous
And for me, Xfce, Mate, LXQt, Budgie, Cinnamon aren't really lightweight, I consider them to be roughly just a tad lighter
Eris
dude
Eris
http://lxde.sourceforge.net/about.html
https://wiki.xfce.org/minimum_requirements
Eris
read
Anonymous
Mostly since they got updated to GTK 3
Anonymous
http://lxde.sourceforge.net/about.html
https://wiki.xfce.org/minimum_requirements
First, these system requirements aren't up to date
Xfce's requirements are pretty much based on older versions
The LXDE page hasn't been updated since 2008
And now, LXDE is deprecated, as there won't be any more feature updates, just bugfixes, and that's pretty much it
Alexander
And for me, Xfce, Mate, LXQt, Budgie, Cinnamon aren't really lightweight, I consider them to be roughly just a tad lighter
Xubuntu runs on a Celeron with 1GB RAM just fine
Eris
https://q4os.org/downloads1.html
Eris
just get q4os
Eris
or that
Eris
so "anything linux" was a mere generalization
Eris
congratz
Anonymous
Xubuntu 18.04
Newer versions of Xubuntu will be a pain
But the older LTS ones are, well, kind of okay
Anonymous
so "anything linux" was a mere generalization
I'm talking about up to date stuff
But sure, you can put some 16.04 Ubuntu, some 9.x Debians, an Arch with a light WM like Openbox, i3 or JWM, NuTyX Linux, AntiX...
For a day to day linux distro, it's not that fun to use imo
Alexander
For a day to day use singlecores with 1GB RAM can never be fun in 2020
✝️ ☺️🌞 HD Scania
You have to upgrade that RAM for anything Linux imo
My Asus one has had 38GiB swaps + 15.6GiB RAMs, where the screeshots’ one has been ordered for a friend not but mine
Anonymous
My Asus one has had 38GiB swaps + 15.6GiB RAMs, where the screeshots’ one has been ordered for a friend not but mine
38 GiB of swap ?
That's madness
Jose
Why bad idea? Already late alpha thanks?
Best install other light & functional distro, there is a lot of them (puppy linux, antix, Haiku..).And if it have virtual support then install ReactOS in this manner, so he can use both things.
Sorry for.my bad english.
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Gnome, KDE, Deepin and other DEs of that type are pretty much unusable on 2GB of RAM
KDE has been barely working on 1.86GiB RAMs, where Deepin and GNOME are far from working
Anonymous
Best install other light & functional distro, there is a lot of them (puppy linux, antix, Haiku..).And if it have virtual support then install ReactOS in this manner, so he can use both things.
Sorry for.my bad english.
Your english ain't bad
However, Puppy Linux is deprecated, and far obsolete
Jose
It works fine for common use. Also have quirky linux.
Anonymous
KDE has been barely working on 1.86GiB RAMs, where Deepin and GNOME are far from working
What's that 1.86 GiB, you mean 2GiB ?
And yeah, KDE consumes ever so slightly less ram than GTK based DEs
However it consumes a bit more CPU and GPU ressources imo
Anonymous
It works fine for common use. Also have quirky linux.
Nah, forgot Puppy Linux, it hasn't been updated in years
Anonymous
Oh, didn't saw the recent stuff that has been done on it
Anonymous
Apparently it has a Debian version now, a while since I haven't checked