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Most people, otoh, enjoy playing games, watching videos, that sort of thing. Some people even do work that's dependent on the graphics card. Just because you us

Most people, otoh, enjoy playing games, watching videos, that sort of thing. Some people even do work that's dependent on the graphics card. Just because you use your computer for a very minimal amount of tasks doesn't mean everyone else does.

xkarga00 10y ago
Ever heard of Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman?
- Klover 10y ago
  I think you are referring to the critique on television? Perhaps you can pay more attention to the last sentence of vertex-four's comment. That being "Just because you use your computer for a very minimal amount of tasks doesn't mean everyone else does." There are a million and one ways to use your graphics. Be it watching videos or gaming, which while you might have a problem with that, is actually done by people. It can also be used to smoothly decode and render a training video, or to make spreadsheets more pleasant to crawl through without the screen tearing and making everything look like a mess. There are even more minuscule applications you can do with graphics hardware and the software to drive it: transparency to subconsciously still remember what you're returning to when you click on another window, for example. As nice of you as it is to warn the parent about their information-action ratio, you could use this opportunity to appreciate people's freedom of choice as well as understand there is more to Windows and Mac than Netflix and Call of Duty.
  - xkarga00 10y ago
    Wow, I am not sure how you managed to infer my lack of appreciation for people's freedom of choice merely from a title of a book. You may understand what I am trying to convey, if you ever read the book.
    - na85 10y ago
      How about just coming out and saying it, instead of leaving smug hints about some niche book? You're not adding anything to the discussion.
      - xkarga00 10y ago
        See, from my point of view enough was added to the discussion with just a comment about a "niche book". Rest of the comments on it are mere reactions of ego:)
onli 10y ago
That misrepresents the situation on Linux. You can play with it, seriously since Steam is there, and you can watch videos since forever.
- vertex-four 10y ago
  Absolutely, I've been using it for a while (NixOS being my current distro), but I took what my parent was saying as that the graphics stack is irrelevant because they don't need to do anything with the graphics stack.
VLM 10y ago
Everybody does that stuff in the browser now a days, which works fine in freebsd.
- na85 10y ago
  "Everybody" certainly doesn't play games in the browser. Most PC gamers will tell you that the experience usually sucks and is often poorly performant.
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pimeys 10y ago
I do all of those things. My gaming PC is solely for games and netflix and it's connected to our television. I think it more as a gaming console than a computer. It has Windows 10 in it just for Witcher 3 and to remind me of never installing it to my laptop or workstations... With my arch/xmonad laptop I can handle everything else, except that damn Witcher 3 :)

xkarga00 10y ago

Ever heard of Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman?

Klover 10y ago
I think you are referring to the critique on television? Perhaps you can pay more attention to the last sentence of vertex-four's comment. That being "Just because you use your computer for a very minimal amount of tasks doesn't mean everyone else does." There are a million and one ways to use your graphics. Be it watching videos or gaming, which while you might have a problem with that, is actually done by people. It can also be used to smoothly decode and render a training video, or to make spreadsheets more pleasant to crawl through without the screen tearing and making everything look like a mess. There are even more minuscule applications you can do with graphics hardware and the software to drive it: transparency to subconsciously still remember what you're returning to when you click on another window, for example. As nice of you as it is to warn the parent about their information-action ratio, you could use this opportunity to appreciate people's freedom of choice as well as understand there is more to Windows and Mac than Netflix and Call of Duty.
- xkarga00 10y ago
  Wow, I am not sure how you managed to infer my lack of appreciation for people's freedom of choice merely from a title of a book. You may understand what I am trying to convey, if you ever read the book.
  - na85 10y ago
    How about just coming out and saying it, instead of leaving smug hints about some niche book? You're not adding anything to the discussion.
    - xkarga00 10y ago
      See, from my point of view enough was added to the discussion with just a comment about a "niche book". Rest of the comments on it are mere reactions of ego:)

onli 10y ago

That misrepresents the situation on Linux. You can play with it, seriously since Steam is there, and you can watch videos since forever.

vertex-four 10y ago
Absolutely, I've been using it for a while (NixOS being my current distro), but I took what my parent was saying as that the graphics stack is irrelevant because they don't need to do anything with the graphics stack.

VLM 10y ago

Everybody does that stuff in the browser now a days, which works fine in freebsd.

na85 10y ago
"Everybody" certainly doesn't play games in the browser. Most PC gamers will tell you that the experience usually sucks and is often poorly performant.
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pimeys 10y ago

I do all of those things. My gaming PC is solely for games and netflix and it's connected to our television. I think it more as a gaming console than a computer. It has Windows 10 in it just for Witcher 3 and to remind me of never installing it to my laptop or workstations... With my arch/xmonad laptop I can handle everything else, except that damn Witcher 3 :)