Win10 Benchmark Continued
I’m no nearer figuring out why my benchmark scores are lower. I thought maybe my NVMe SSD had an even bigger performance hit but my AS SSD Benchmark and CrystalDiskMark scores are similar to the results I had before.
Features removed or planned for replacement starting with Windows 10, version 1803
Thanks JO!
7-Zip 18.05
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Linux Releases
Kali Linux 2018.2
“This Kali release is the first to include the Linux 4.15 kernel, which includes the x86 and x64 fixes for the much-hyped Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. It also includes much better support for AMD GPUs”
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Fedora 28
“For the first time, we’re making it easy for users to enable certain third-party software sources, including proprietary Nvidia drivers.”
Has kernel 4.16.
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Meanwhile at openSUSE…
At the end of May they will release openSUSE Leap 15 which follows version 42.3. Yes you read that right. Oh, and it will use kernel 4.12 that was released last July.
I’m happily at OpenSUSE Tumbleweed now (kernel 4.16.6). Though not really using it very seriously (not running sales systems or webservers or whatever, just the regular home use). I keep backups around but so far it has been rather stable. One time I performed a full rollback as there were issues with the repos and the new kernel f’d my proprietary NVIDIA driver. (Issues have been resolved, though the driver issue by means of a non-official (not by NVIDIA) patch.) But I’m pretty satisfied with Tumbleweed.
The day I get dissatisfied with Tumbleweed I will try out Fedora. OpenSUSE LEAP seems too conservative for me. That’s why I switched to Tumbleweed in the first place, to stay more current. As for SUSE/Fedora: have to admit I tend to go for the main RPM based ‘consumer’ distro’s, don’t need paid business support.
Looking back I guess Tumbleweed has given me fewer headaches with its updates than MS Win 10 Pro. Now of course I don’t know if this tells us more about MS than about OpenSUSE????
I require that VMWare Player work 100% and even trying to install it in Tumbleweed is next to impossible.
Hi Eric, I have multiple systems here all @ OST (dual booted w W10Pro) and very recent backups so I might experiment a little. Not afraid of crippling anything. How do you install VMWare player? I normarlly just grap the binaries/rpms for my distro. You, too? Or do you use tarballs/make (which I find cumbersome). Anyway, will look for rpms, will let you know.
Hi Eric, found a .bundle at the official VMWare site. The .bundle is basically a bash shell wrapper around their installer, it seems. It installed fine (well, if you just ignore the [Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module”” ]). However, subsequently running it failed. I got a yellow warning triangle on the Virtual Machine Monitor and a failure on Starting VMware Services.
The logfile under /tmp/vmware-root did not provide any useful details.
So I guess you’re right to avoid the OST/VMWare combination.
BTW, my .bundle was version 14.0.0-6661328. Maybe a version string including 666 is indicative of diabolical problems 😉 ?
It is useless. Even if you get it working, some update will break it again.