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@Banana.YouTube

Жыл бұрын

sure

@gabethecool

Жыл бұрын

That transition was so goofy

@algret132

Жыл бұрын

I can use cyber ghost and it’s the same thing duh 🙄

@Banana.YouTube

Жыл бұрын

@@algret132 YEA

@PieStudios

Жыл бұрын

What ad agency did you go through? Or did you contact them directly?

You know its rough when the 3ds ran Half-life better.

@Banana.YouTube

Жыл бұрын

Comment on my latest video for a chance to get a shout out!

@Macko_z_Bogdanca

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@thefunnydoge

Жыл бұрын

3ds runs it at like 20-30 fps while this dudes pc just makes a beat

@crestofhonor2349

Жыл бұрын

Keep in mind the 3DS ran it at 400x240

@algret132

Жыл бұрын

Lol

The "let me give you some background" *fade into white for 1 second* and it cutting back to you going "I have no idea" was such a good bit and its at the start of the video. Sets up how good this video will be.

@neoqueto

Жыл бұрын

Yep, it gives off that "oh that guy is funny" vibe

@dabert5972

Жыл бұрын

I was about to click off before I saw that. I just knew it was going to be a banger after that. Between that and "The Solution", I was thoroughly sent

@TheExFatal

11 ай бұрын

Honestly one of the funniest gags I've seen on youtube

There's something about people messing around with older tech (or weaker hardware) to get it to do things that it was never meant to do just amazing.

@AlTiri-rd7ly

5 ай бұрын

I know right? I think it feeds the child inside all of us.

@hellohaveagoodday

4 ай бұрын

I totally get that. Shows the freedom of technology, feels like playing with lego as a kid and realising you can add sets together.

@UglyNTRBastard

3 ай бұрын

Literally my entire childhood lmao Tryna get an IBM Thinkpad T23 (I think) to run Project 64. lol

@therealcryptical6254

Ай бұрын

YES. I thought I was alone lol

@RazorsharpLT

17 күн бұрын

This DEFINITELY could run Half-Life without any problems It used to run on a 64mb ram 733mhz machine back in the day with 3DS voodo graphics cards. His issue is his profound dumbness in using steam. Just download a non steam version ffs.

Oh hey, a Trimble! I used to do some IT work for a small engineering firm, and their land survey department had a lot of Trimble equipment. I hated having to work with them. They're literally only made to manage GPS location points stored in .csv text files, so there's no need for performance of any kind. This is a fancier one than I've seen, having a full-blown OS. Most I've seen run some version of Windows CE. The model you have isn't familiar to me, but the fact that is was so hard to open was likely due to the fact that they're built to be used outdoors in the field while surveying property lines and elevations and such. That would also explain why the spec's are so low, as theses devices are usually entirely passively cooled, without a single fan or vent, since it's meant to be weatherproof/waterproof to some degree, as well as drop resistant (so mechanical drives are a no-no). That's also likely why the I/O connections were all on a separate piece from the rest of the thing, so that water or dirt can get into a USB port without getting into the main device.

@lazyg123

Жыл бұрын

I work in the mining industry and we all use Leica equipment, but we need to use scanners nowadays so the survey tablets have to be somewhat powerful, still all comes in a text file though lol.

@Montgomerygolfgator

Жыл бұрын

I know Trimble for CoPilot and PC Miler, CoPilot is a truck GPS suite for ELDs and iOS/Android. PC Miler is a a tool for office-side truck milage estimates, fuel solutions, and it interfaces with ELD messaging so a driver can request directions in text form from an ELD. I figured with the pogo connector and Windows OS (a lot of ELDs run/ran XP or CE) that this was some stand-alone solution for things like box trucks.

@JasonLihani

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. I wanted to know more about this thing's normal purpose. You're the best.

@AleK0451

Жыл бұрын

i wondered why this thing looks like a JCB ipad

@windstream25

Жыл бұрын

As a surveyor it wasn't a practical data collector and most just stick to old rangers because the average age of a surveyor is 60 and are afraid of new tech

I'm gonna name my first kid Trimble Yuma in honor of this thing

@MandrakeFernflower

10 ай бұрын

Trimble Yuma-Bringus

@samdavies2069

4 ай бұрын

Have you done it yet? Or has your wife left you, filed for sole custody and a restraining order on grounds of insanity?

@Allen-sw8xb

16 күн бұрын

what no don't do that

disabling the steam overlay AND the avatars animations in the chat/profile section is a HUGE boost on a machine like that.

He really just stole a science computer to play half life. This is the stuff I watch. And I love it.

@Lamario862

Ай бұрын

you could not have said it better

That "haan" when the installation went from 1 to 0 was golden. Love you Bringus, keep doing you.

i like the READ THIS NOW file on the desktop and how after the update there was a second one named THIS ONE TOO just to get fully ignored by bringus haha

@BringusStudios

Жыл бұрын

Someone has sponsorblock installed

@uncraftbar

Жыл бұрын

@@BringusStudios OHH LOL. well that makes sense haha.

@gamagama69

Жыл бұрын

@@BringusStudios uhhh 😅

@aiodensghost8645

Жыл бұрын

@@BringusStudios unfortunately you can thank KZread and their invasive ad rolls

@XdekHckr

Ай бұрын

@@aiodensghost8645 sponsorblock is not blocking youtube ads, it's extension driven by community that let you skip part in videos that are sponsored by someone or just boring

Love the use of the windows 7 log in noise from censoring.

I'm so, so happy this showed up in my recommended. What a stupid concept. Your channel is incredible. Please do more of this.

I think the reason the keyboard driver takes time to install, and anew for every different port you plug the same device into, is because Windows is trying to locate a driver from online when it has a perfectly good driver available to use. I think I ended up turning off online driver searches on Windows 7.

This dude boutta find out what the quadratic formula for Mario world is

@ethanwaldock2515

Жыл бұрын

My boy about to learn the Konami Theorem

@FutureSoap

Жыл бұрын

​@@ethanwaldock2515 My guy boutta be preaching ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️ start by the end of the video

@Banana.YouTube

Жыл бұрын

Comment on my latest video for a chance to get a shout out!

steamdeck at home

@Purrception_78

4 күн бұрын

For real 😂

This man is the alternative universe dankpods

Hello Bringus Studios! Cool video! I thought as an Intel Atom enthusiast and collector I would offer some advice on how to improve performance on hardware like this, given my extensive experience with Atom-based machines: 1. Atoms from this generation will generally take a 200mhz boost via FSB overvolting, which I highly recommend you do. 200Mhz doesn't sound like a lot, but going from 1.6Ghz to 1.8Ghz is substantial and can give you more FPS in games especially. 2. For OS, I highly recommend Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE 32-Bit. It's up-to-date (they just ended support in April of this year), very lightweight (in my experience it runs better than XP on hardware of this vintage), and is fully-compatible with applications like Steam. 3. Believe it or not, most of the lack of speed you're experiencing is actually from a combination of OS and hard drive. A slow hard drive, coupled with Windows features like Search Index, can bring CPUs like this to their knees very quickly (and also steal a lot of CPU cycles from games). Upgrading to a solid-state storage medium (which I believe it is possible to do on this particular device) will help a LOT. 4. This Atom is actually single-core, not dual-core. It's hyperthreaded so it shows up as "2 cores" in Windows but it's one physical core with 2 threads. The USB is also 2.0 "standard speed", not USB 1 or 1.1, which is a subset of USB 2.0 that doesn't get talked about much (or really at all). It's USB 1.1 speeds with USB 2.0 compatibility. 5. Running Steam or other launchers is a pretty quick way to steal most of the CPU power before the games even begin. Running them natively without a launcher will definitely help matters, as you've expressed already in the video. 6. In regards to improving performance in-games, the biggest bottleneck isn't actually the CPU (I know, crazy) but is actually the system bus. 533Mhz stock is quite slow, SATA speed is SATA 1, and the screen resolution is too high for the embedded GPU. Turning off as many things that need to be live-loaded from the disk as possible can help a lot (such as textures). 7. I'm sure this is nothing new to you but retro gaming is pretty decent on systems like this. Feel free to ask if you have any other questions. Fun to see some Atom love :D

@xPLAYnOfficial

Жыл бұрын

@liecr mk3 gaming Technically no, however it can be when you overvolt / overclock the FSB

@xPLAYnOfficial

Жыл бұрын

@liecr mk3 gaming Well usually the safest bet is to slowly up the FSB voltage until it no longer works, then resetting the BIOS and setting to the last setting that worked.

@guidoopossum457

Жыл бұрын

As OS I like antiX more for old PC.

@guidoopossum457

Жыл бұрын

@liecr mk3 gaming idk man recomend Mint xfce, I know one more lightweight and work for 32-bit CPU

@DanielTimberwolf

4 ай бұрын

Ah, the ol'reliable netbook gamer survival guide.

That was one of the smoothest sponsorship transitions I've ever seen, hats off to you Sir Bringus

The DankPods editing and style got you a sub! Love the video

The thing looks like that Tablet that Tails uses in some of the 3D Sonic games.

@VerdeMorte

Жыл бұрын

It *really* does...

@therunawaykid6523

Жыл бұрын

Sure is a chunky boi

@remixedcat

7 күн бұрын

his 2nd middle name is trimble

"time for our third operating system" - truly words to live by, reminds me of my childhood

thank you for going some what in depth on what you were doing, helps me learn on how this stuff works as none of the other ones help. Its a great blend between showing the parts for those intrested and others just wanting to watch.

This is the calmest amount of computerised chaos I have ever seen in my life and I’m all for it

Fun fact: Trimble are the current owners of the CAD software SketchUp.

@MrMaxymoo22

4 ай бұрын

That's why I knew that name!

Ubuntu stopped 32-bit suppoort a while back. I'd recommend using something like debian instead. It still has 32-bit support and is fairly stable. Not sure if it would help much with steam though but it might make the device a bit more usable

@techiewiskers

Жыл бұрын

mabye Puppy Linux? its cute too

@master74200

Жыл бұрын

Steam runs fine on Debian, with Proton as well. Has for years.

@thenoddingturtle

Жыл бұрын

Debian is definitely a good choice for this class of hardware. Unfortunately, that Atom Z530 has GMA 500 as graphics, so no hardware acceleration in Linux.

@techiewiskers

Жыл бұрын

@@thenoddingturtle mabye put windows 98 se on for shits and giggles

@thenoddingturtle

Жыл бұрын

@@techiewiskers XP works just fine

still way better than the school computers

@RyderSpitz

Жыл бұрын

Nah I hacked my school pc and it runs pretty good Minecraft gameplay and mods

@space_bacon1953

Жыл бұрын

@@vexnaxV2 they understood the joke, they just chimed in about how their school was different + this is YT not Reddit

@accontdeleted2583

Жыл бұрын

@@space_bacon1953 dude it's basically the same thing going r/woooosh in a comments thread is allowed and sometimes it ends up on reddit.

@awii.neocities

Жыл бұрын

@@RyderSpitz "Hacked" your school PC? What do you mean? It obviously isn't a Chromebook because you're running Minecraft, and if it's windows, how did you "hack" it. Windows is about as holeless as a block of cheese so theres many ways to break through. Chances are your parents bought it and because of that, they can't lock the BIOS. So if you just reinstalled windows, that isn't "hacking" that's just wiping and reinstalling.

@RyderSpitz

Жыл бұрын

@@awii.neocities not really hacked, but I just went into my teachers admin account on the school site and got the password to admin on the computer and wiped everything abt the school from it

Not even a minute in and you're ripping electric cords apart. I both respect and am terrified of these engineering channels.

This is exactly what modding is all about, Jerry-rigging stuff together just to find out it doesn’t work anyway

"What is this thing? Let me give you guys a little background: I have no idea!" Great start. I'm hooked ngl.

9:43 As someone who's first computer was a crappy Gateway notebook, this part hit me the hardest.

Trying to guess every song in this video 1. Donkey Kong Country level select. (1.1 gannon warlock punch) 2. Delphino Plaza 3. Idk some obscure DS game 4. Everybody votes channel 5. Mushroom bridge / city - Double dash 6. Something from Toadstool Tour 7. Hyrule Courtyard OOT 8. Brawl Main Theme 9. Something something animal crossing 10. Mario world 2 athletic 11. Mario odyssey - steam gardens Also, fun video!

Gotta love the way you brought in your sponsor. It's quite the surprise for those uninitiated with Xubuntu and doesn't feel as shoe horned in as other sponsor breaks I've seen. Keep it inventive, I wanna see more ways you could bring a sponsor without destroying the vibe of the vid too much.

@BringusStudios

Жыл бұрын

Thanks man. If I'm going to be intrusive I might as well earn it with a laugh

I always say that any pc can be a gaming pc with the right tools and games, i was wrong

@aiodensghost8645

Жыл бұрын

No, you're right. You just gotta give a bit more effort than usual with these.

@AlexanderScott66

Жыл бұрын

Well it would be good for like, Snake, the game that can fit into a QR code

@Deathbatman

Жыл бұрын

Nah

@luigimaster111

Жыл бұрын

At the very least I bet you could run some retro console emulators, maybe not a gaming PC but certainly a... TV console of sorts. Retropie might he a good choice, since that can run on a device with as low as 512 mb of ram. 1 gig of ram certainly is the main bottleneck, used to game on a netbook that had I think the exact same CPU, but the 2 gigs of ram gave it enough memory overhead to handle Minecraft beta 1.6 at 15 fps, and half life 1 at at least 30, don't quite recall.

@nnauricio

Жыл бұрын

I used to play a lot of games and emulators a with my phentium 3 and 256 ram back in the day like project 64, ps1, cs 1.6, gunz the duel and other stuff without a single problem

Those old Atom processors had multithreading on a single core, so they'd show up as dual core but they definitely were not. That entire Trimble is basically a ruggedized netbook.

I just found your channel and I absolutely admire your persistence

is this fancier dank pods?

@cliffordreynolds1835

26 күн бұрын

No Dankpods would be comparing this computer to an Apple product probably,lol.

@greystratford2039

19 күн бұрын

this is less fancy dankpods

The american dankpods

@user-hy7wf7uh1p

5 күн бұрын

Fax

This is so awesome lol, part of my job is administering license management servers for a wide range of engineering, chemistry, and geosciences software so I'm somewhat familiar with Trimble. They've got a ton of different software out there, but what I'm familiar with is their geosciences and mining engineering software. These tablets would be used for geospatial work (in my personal experience), e.g. surveying land and mines, capturing data from laser scanners, and stuff like that. A lot of the work is handled by specialized equipment, and these tablets are basically just there to gather data points and stuff, not much actual processing needed from what I understand. I've been hoping the geosciences people go for a tech refresh so I can nab one of these from the e-waste, lmk if you'd be interested in selling it lol

Why did I think this was a Dankpods video

@Ponkowski

Ай бұрын

Similar camera placement made me think same xd

@theinsideoftechnology5134

Ай бұрын

@@Ponkowskilol

@jasonnugent963

Ай бұрын

Does he break out the 1 grit?

@hayd3ni307

22 күн бұрын

Same quality different flavor of nugget

Why is his transition to sponsor segments so dang smooth 😂

Had that very same netbook you referenced, the acer aspire. What a brutal machine lol

Can't wait to see what you do with the X1 Carbon! Also, definitely very jealous. My current printer is a tiny cube from 2017 that can print 13cm in each direction

8:21 that gave me SOO MUCH NOSTALGIA

bro the editing, humor, and dedication 🔥🔥 spot on

I found your channel randomly, I really enjoyed this video. You gain s shiny new subscriber!

that would be great for RetroPie OS with emulators

I personally would have gone with Crysis. I believe that would possibly run. I don't think it will do anything more powerful than that.

Probably needed the full direct x 9 update . If you were running none service pack xp almost no programs want to run on that. If you can get sp3 onto it you could probably get project 64 going.

I remember running a similar system to this, the Gateway LT2016U and I had the opportunity to run Void Linux (running i3), DOSbox games, Yume Nikki, Cave Story, and Doom and some WADs. Alongside that I was crazy enough to do modern workstation activities such as web browsing with qutebrowser, image editing with gimp and inkscape, and office-work with libreoffice. One of the key moments I had was playing Oregon Trail with my therapist, it was super fun! :D

@HungerGamesFan88

Жыл бұрын

now i want to see myhouse.wad running on this mf

Centuries ago, I had a Casio CFX-9850G scientific calculator (actually I had the previous model in gray and monochrome) I made a very simple game based on gorilla.bas, it was a ship that appeared randomly on a line on the screen and you had to introduce angle and force to launch a bomb. It drew the trajectory of the curve using the grapher and if it guessed its coordinates a smoke was shown and a screen that said "sunk", if it did not ask for the coordinates again. The programming language was a very simplified BASIC, that Casio used, but that allowed each point of the screen to be graphed, I could never have an HP48G, they were very expensive.

That VPN transiton was just perfect 👌👌

just found your channel and i love it. A mix between Dankpods and Michael MJD

These type of tablets are typically used for construction. The estimating software I use is Trimble Autobid Mechanical/Sheetmetal. These tablets can be used with the 3D scanning cameras used in the field to take real time images of pre/post construction. The issue with these tablets is that they make them so bare bones that you are forced to buy a new one every few years just to keep up with the demand of tech. And they aren’t cheap

Thats a special kinda potato. In 05 I had a garbage emachines netbook or whatever they were called. Nes emulation was basically all the gaming it could do and even that was probably better. Edit: Nvm this potato is definitely better!

The real gaming is the friends we made along the way.

that beat had me vibin' hahaha gotta love old tech and having fun with it !

This is why you save charging cables, no matter what lol.

What tool did you use to expose the wires on the destroyed laptop charger cable?

@BringusStudios

Жыл бұрын

www.amazon.com/Self-Adjusting-Stripper-Klein-Tools-11061/dp/B00CXKOEQ6

first time watching your content and its hilarious honestly, love funny obscure tech stuff

Love watching you pain. I always have that problem when installing OSes that should not be on old tech.

The F in the F keys is for functions, so while your playing the game the computer will then start running background processes and switch your input to something else because it is not registered in that window anymore.

I have the sneaking suspicion in win7 it was using open gl with a missing open gl driver. As for in xp half life was using cpu rendering. I remember running Left for dead on an n270 which is a fair bit weaker. Granted, I did have to use a bunch of commands to make it run smooth

@RealEpikCartfrenYT

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it was probably missing drivers

wow that was the biggest linux skill issue i have ever seen 10/10 video

Oh god, that clicking noise. I remember it from running Goldsrc games on my Dell Demension in middle school. Only when loading in games but after that it was good.

What a stupid little computer.. I love it! 😍 Keep up the great work! Really enjoyed this video.

On windows xp you possibly need the actual gpu driver for that scientific tablet pc... maybe look up the cpu to see of what igpu it would have to stage the right driver

“Welcome to the future. Everything is worse” True.

Your leap frog thing and installing windows on a mac apparently a second time inspired me to install windows on my old macbook

I see you finally got you windows portable console!

Hey, I love videos like this but I would like to point some things out, you might have better luck witch directx games since intels opengl drivers are trash and hl runs on opengl, also this is intel atom so even if it was quad core it would still be bad.

@elwey7552

Жыл бұрын

hl1 can run in software mode

Your Commitment to Gaming on Crappy Hardware is Amazing 😂😂 Love your Content

Dude that was a smooth sponsor transition

I'd love to see you turn a switch into a steam deck. Please bringus!

@bljmario6410

Жыл бұрын

The potential issue with that is like someone already tried that, jumped through 50 bajillion hoops and still didn't work. (Lazy to put link here) Also someone DID manage to get Steam, but didn't run really well. For example, Pizza Tower ran at like 2 FPS on the Switch. You can do other stuff on the Switch with Linux tho, maybe trying to play standalone games and emulators.

I think this Intel Atom has 1 core, 2 threads, not 2 cores (because hyper threading)

@BringusStudios

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you're right I made an oopsie

@MandrakeFernflower

10 ай бұрын

​​​@@BringusStudios a p3 coppermine from 2001 runs XP better than the trimble

ik this video is 3 months old, but having DKC OST is a great way to get me interested, I love technology shit like this

You really got me with the meme at 17:03 😂

You need to run old non-steam day one version of Half-Life or at least Xash 3D engine, while the first one is least resource hungry. Works just fine on my Via C7-M based 2006 XP UMPC.

AntiX is the most lightweight Linux Distro I know, it could be usefull for future expirements with severly under powered hardware. Edit: For some reference it runs pretty well on an old laptop of mine that struggled to play an mp4 file.

@lanjinling-wuqian

Жыл бұрын

ran antix on a winxp laptop with 512mb of ram and 1.6ghz cpu ran fine except that the machine is really just broken

@terry2295

Жыл бұрын

@@lanjinling-wuqian What exactly do you mean with "the machine is really just broken"?

@lanjinling-wuqian

Жыл бұрын

@@terry2295 half of the ports are broken, the cpu fan mostly run over the sides, the charging port detachable, the hdd is somewhat broken as the disk util says, the keyboard is unstable and so on

@terry2295

Жыл бұрын

@@lanjinling-wuqian If that was my device I'd probably scrap it for parts, if there even are any to salvage, and recycle the rest.

@lanjinling-wuqian

Жыл бұрын

@@terry2295 apparently yes the only thing that i think I can salvage from it is the screen and the 512mb stick of ddr2 ram. maybe the hdd as the only thing damaged from it was the somewhat the first two sectors.

That Acer Aspire brought me back! That exact model was the laptop i used in college until i could save up enough for a proper one . Thanks for that.

very dankpods inspired, love the content!

Hello Mr.Bringus! Did you know that the 32 bit version of puppy Linux from 2020 only takes up around 65MB of RAM at start up and I’m pretty sure it’s still supported to. I installed it last year on laptop from 2006 and it was pretty good. it’s based on Ubuntu also.

@user-mp1du9bq2z

4 ай бұрын

🤓☝️

9:46 Wow. You're pretty good at that! (beatboxing)

You know it was time for my yearly PC Data Purge and everything and after watching you cram linux on so many different things. I put Linux on my system for the first time ever and its pretty good !

Mom cab I have a steam deck We already have a steam deck at home The steam deck:

I am watching this video on my steam deck, I can confirm you may have a slight skill issue I use arch btw >:))

It’s a EFB for Trimble , it’s for field data collection for Field Surveyors. I used a couple different types

Just came across a treasure trove here. Love the content. I have a feeling I'll be stuck watching your videos for quite a while now.

but can it run Crysis?

@TheDoomguy3232

Жыл бұрын

But can it run?

@Banana.YouTube

Жыл бұрын

Comment on my latest video for a chance to get a shout out!

One of my favourite reasons as to why I use Linux, is seeing people try to use it, get frustrated and claim that Linux sucks and they eventually return to Windows and make a bunch of jokes about how Linux sucks and tell people to just use Windows, meanwhile, as a Linux user, I'm perfectly fine with the OS, I know how to do stuff and how to fix stuff and I've been daily driving it for 2 years, gaming on it, basically doing everything I would do on WIndows on Linux. I try to help those kinds of people at times, but I often feel as if Windows users have the wrong idea coming to Linux. Theres definitely a learning curve, and if you're impatient then its not for you. But something about me just loves seeing people complain about Linux, meanwhile, I am playing Roblox on Linux, I am gaming on Linux, I am doing everything I've wanted to do on it, but it's just broken for everyone else, it seems.

@exodusismyname

Жыл бұрын

I used Linux for a bit when windows was broken and man I loved it, just wish it had more game support

@Noxior12

Жыл бұрын

@@exodusismyname support is pretty good these days with proton, there is a lack of support in terms of anticheats tho

@chadmasta5

Жыл бұрын

I have used Linux at various points across just about every type of hardware you can throw it on over the last 14 years. Oldest machine had a pentium ii from 1997 and the newest had a ryzen 5 3500u from 2020. I've used it on x86, x64, arm, ppc, AMD, and intel. AMD gpu, intel gpu, even Nvidia as bad an idea as that is. I've distro hopped all over. Laptop, desktop, tablet, all in one, and single board computer. Some as hobby projects, some I daily drove. I have never in my life had a single instance of Linux just work. There has always, without fail, been at least one issue that either needed to be solved by digging through old forum posts for similar problems on different distros, somehow sorted itself out temporarily before breaking again, or just being unsolvable. For all of its many faults, Windows is objectively easier to use. When I want a program I just get it. No checking repositories, no adding new repositories, no building my own executable, no work arounds to run the Windows version, and no searching for alternatives that may or may not even be able to do what I want. Linux has come a long way but it's still far from being something the average person will be able to use for their every day PC.

@LakoIsFun

Жыл бұрын

The issue is that you'd need a modern PC to even play basic DirectX games, as DXVK needs VK, Vulkan. If your GPU is from anything before like the mid-2010s, you're better off using Windows since most of them don't support Vulkan 1 (DXVK needs like Vulkan 2/3), but *do* support DX12. Yeah, OpenGL and Wine's old interpreter might work, but they're not as compatible. So basically even if Steam worked perfectly on that Trimble tablet, I doubt that most games would work, but to be fair, Half-Life, an OpenGL game was the benchmark.

@KopperNeoman

11 ай бұрын

Linux's gaming backends suck... compared to Windows. Granted, this is like how crows are stupid compared to humans, pigeons are smart compared to games journalists, and ESG is freedom compared to social credits, but it's still true.

I used to work IT. Some of my customers had these on their survey equipment and data collection equipment.

These Trimble units at least used to be ridiculously expensive special hardware for geo survey and mapping applications. I would not be surprised if they are still sold and in use. IMHO their business model was find something a geo related use case and sell something insanely expensive for it.

@md1028

11 ай бұрын

They are but the newer tablets are much better, and yes that tablet prob cost someone around 6-7 grand when new as it is part of a RTS coordinates system that can run around 50k for the complete robot system. These are used in construction as it allows trades to map out there MEP systems.

try playing something more scientific than half life, might run better since its a scientific computer

@fatyoshi1456

Жыл бұрын

Gordon doesn’t need to hear this, he’s a highly trained professional

But can it run DOOM?

@Banana.YouTube

Жыл бұрын

Comment on my latest video for a chance to get a shout out!

Dankpods type thumbnail, absolute W

Ok ngl that transition was pretty good

It's amazing how the closer we get to Linux being useable, the more it begins to behave like Windows

@Lachrymogenic

Жыл бұрын

lol

@celestialsylveon6453

Жыл бұрын

Depends on the distro. I've tried like 6 Arch distros, 1 Debian, and 1 Fedroa based one and none of them had an update screen when rebooting they did all the updates while the OS was usable

Weirdest steam deck

That was a fire beatbox

I love coming home after a long day and throwing on a Bingo Stubby Toes vid

I have been wanting to buy an Acer Aspire One netbook. I had one in 2009 and I loved that little thing. I got Mech Warrior 3 working on it and it was worth it. And this little PC has the same Atom CPU and RAM that my Acer did. But at least you could upgrade the RAM and HDD on those.