Zorin OS 17 released six months ago, and has achieved 1.3 million downloads, according to an email from the founders.
Also: "78% of new downloads came from Windows and macOS users, reflecting our mission to bring the power of Linux to people who’ve never had access to it before."
I never jumped on the Microsoft hate train. Never endorsed the whole "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" thing. I kept an open mind. I stayed pragmatic.
But THIS? This feels like the line in the sand for me.
➡️ “…With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the ’90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That’s been the understanding." ⬅️
OK, so back to the gaming laptop and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Does that massive 37% performance hit scale down as expected when lowering resolution and quality?
I reduced the output to 720p on my gaming laptop and switched to the Medium quality preset to somewhat mirror the Steam Deck test.
I'm now seeing a performance hit of 19% when enabling Game Mode. I still think it should be considerably less on hardware this powerful 🤔
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