I've been a Windows to Linux waffler since I put Slackware 2.0 on a 386DX25 with 8MB RAM and 120MB ATA hdd, using Kernel 1.1.47 (thus dating the start of my Linux saga) with A, N, D, and enough of the X set to run Netscape 2.0. And on that system I played (besides the epic classics like Nethack) Doom and Abuse. I ran Windows 7 for some time because it was a great place to run most games, even most of the vintage ones, and a tolerable place to run other things. I ran Linux occasionally in VMware Player or from USB stick for tasks that Windows couldn't or wouldn't do gracefully.

Now I run Devuan 5, and I am having a fairly excellent experience gaming with a combination of Lutris, PlayOnLinux, Steam, and Proton-GE. I only have a Pinnacle Ridge (1600AF) and a 4060 16GB, but I only game at 1080p. I got the version with more VRAM for LLM stuff, and so if/when I do get a 4k monitor, the card isn't worthless. I am frequently surprised by how many games I actually can run with this combination. With the exception of games with Windows kernel DRM, by far the vast majority of them can be made to work well.

If I were only gaming, I'd probably be on Windows 10. But Linux now is a very viable place to do a lot of gaming, and thanks to work put in to support the Steam Deck, a lot of games will now run very well indeed. Publishers of older games are also putting in a fair bit of work to make games function on Linux today. The new Fallout 4 patch coming out (I know that game is old AF, but it has an extremely active community) is Steam Deck Verified, but the game has run at least as well on Linux as on Windows for years now.

I do sometimes indeed still use normal Wine, but more commonly I use Proton-GE. Try it out, it's impressive.

You not picking up what I'm putting down doesn't mean I'm not putting it down for you.

Putting the ram on the package means both making everything cheaper and smaller. Having equal length traces between modern CPUs and memory is not feasible so you also have to add latency to compensate. Apple probably gets a measurable performance boost this way, but making the system cheaper and smaller certainly matters more.

None of that excuses selling such a low-memory configuration at all, or the prices Apple charges for versions with larger storage, let alone having soldered storage. Ram on package makes sense, it saves space and significant money. SSD soldered makes little sense, it saves almost no space or money. The soldered SSD is on the same kind of bus it would be on if it weren't soldered!

It is retaliation in English, but it is not retaliation in legalese.

And only the latter matters when it comes to having something done about a firing.

I had an employer who did not pay the wages legally required by the state. The state was unwilling to do anything about my wage claim. Although what he did was technically grand theft (here in California, wage theft over a certain amount is now legally grand theft) they had no interest in prosecuting. This is why wage theft exceeds all other theft combined, it is not at all enforced. District Attorneys across the nation are not willing to do their jobs and prosecute. But once we got to my retaliation complaint things got a lot more serious and I was able to secure a settlement.

Because of interconnects. Are you new? Apple has even claimed themselves that putting the RAM in the same package improves performance. Here are the claims distilled by some iFanboys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/w...

By all means, enough with the lies.

Yes, it is. Homelessness has been rising over that time. Very capitalism, much progress.

This is a good description of what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians right now.

If you want to see some real anti-Semitism, look at how Israel is treating the Palestinians, who are more semitic than the Israelis on average; both are descended from the same people so this is basically family attacking family on a national scale.

He's both ignorant and malicious. He still keeps saying it's anti-semitic to hold Israel responsible for the Holocaust* it's perpetrating against the Palestinians, when they are literally more semitic than the Israelis, which Israel attempts to prevent its citizens from finding out from their end.

* An old English word not even used by most speakers of Hebrew

It's Apple's fault they're charging 32GB prices for 8GB of RAM.

It's iFanboys' faults if they fall for it.

And also a stone cold SSD killer.

They can't get this kind of performance (for those short-running tasks that actually perform well on an inadequately cooled system anyway) with modular RAM. It would also take some of the profit out of the machine, or they would have to charge an even more ridiculous price in order to maintain their enormous margins.

You do realize that Safari is basically just an inferior version of the same browser, right? If Safari ever gets updated enough to be as good as Chrome, it will use just as many resources. Using less resources only makes it slower, it doesn't make it better, unless your criteria is "better on a machine with an inadequate amount of RAM". For what Apple is charging, 16GB ought to be the absolute minimum.

The Palestinians are more semitic than the Jews. That's why Israel doesn't allow people to get genetic origin tests.