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It's not the issue of Mac vs Windows looks - you can configure KDE to look like either. I think it is more the question of more features vs less features. Some people prefer to have the smallest amount of controls possible, at the expense of losing ability to do some task. They can be happy...

You might be able to run PhotoShop under Linux using wine: https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux

Some more suggestions: nvtop, iotop, iptraf, smartctl, KDE System Monitor, zabbix

CUDA is not a standard, OpenCL is.

Try LibreOffice, packages in Debian, Ubuntu and other distros.

On a new computer, I would just advise to wipe the Windows and install Linux. If it turns out you do need Windows for some app, just install Windows in a virtual machine. Much better that way.

This is actually an application of "first sale" doctrine - when you buy a piece of hardware there should be a way for you to use it, without having to agree to any additional terms or having manufacturer dictate which apps you can or cannot install.

Try Kubuntu. All the desktop UI features, much better than either Windows or Mac. You can even customize the layout, so it looks like Windows, Mac and even older NeXT, or any mix of these. Plus some KDE-specific features.

1. - this is a feature. The easy to install apps from repositories are more used and had more testing. If you are installing from tarball it probably implies a developer snapshot, and this format makes it easy to do development. (You can also pull directly from git). Commercial software that...

The cost is not small, but that's because you are buying a whole wafer and it is a unique product. They work around defects by disabling some cores. The unique part is not just the more compact design, but also computational features, such as more bandwidth per operation. This can be a winning...

Cerebras has been building wafer-scale computers for a while: https://www.cerebras.ai/chip

Turbostat reports both per core and per hyperthread info. For example, the core temperature is reported once per core, but IRQ count is per execution thread. From the description in the article, I would assume they did need more cores.

Indeed, that is what I meant by "newer systems".

If you use 8x 8TB PCIe 4.0 SSD you get read bandwidth of at least 56 GB/s - not stellar, but definitely usable. Using Sabrent Rocket 8TB, this will set you back less than $10K. The change was likely in response to customer request, as there are plenty of people that need systems with lots of...

Not necessarily. On newer systems you can expand RAM by using PCIe 5.0 slots. You could also memory map SSDs, it takes only 8 8TB SSDs to need more than 64TB addressing space.