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[โ€“] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish the audio stuff I use could be run on Linux without a large compute cost for virtualisation

[โ€“] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How large a cost tho, C/GPUs are getting pretty powerful and *nix is getting better and better.

[โ€“] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm upgrading to a series 7 amd so I'll give it a go with a dual boot.

[โ€“] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know about the dual boot dance with bios safety features these days yeah?

[โ€“] Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

You're supposed to enroll a security key into bios for the partition... or disable the security.