How to choose the right Linux distro for you

Choosing among linux distros is a personal decision. But the general question is for what purpose you want Linux. There are many distros made just for a specific thing. Notable examples are:

  1. Ubuntu Studio : a linux distro made for people who love creating Audio, Graphics, Video, Photography and Publishing.
  2. Scientific Linux : a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters.
  3. CnC Linux : a software system for computer control of machines such as milling machines, lathes, plasma cutters, cutting machines, robots, hexapods, etc
  4. General purpose Linux : Most notable here is Ubuntu which is very easy to install, has its own app center and has steam supported. It’s a good platform also for gaming.
  5. If you are an experienced linux user and you want something more challenging then you can go to Arch-Linux and Gentoo. Both of them are minimal installations from which will provide you a minimal base system and you from a command line you gonna give linux the shape you want. You will chose the login manager, the desktop enviroment, the drivers. I would suggest Arch linux because the installation is very much easier from Gentoo and because of its awesome package manager the Pacman which seriously with one just command can update your entire system packages.
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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K- review

Intel’s flagship $589 Core Ultra 9 285K headlines its new ‘Arrow Lake’ Core Ultra 200S series, leading the charge with 24 cores melded into a completely new chiplet architecture that comes with plenty of new leading-edge tech, like 3D Foveros packaging, support for new DDR5 CUDIMM memory tech, and the first dedicated AI engine fused inside a desktop PC chip.

Intel says Arrow Lake provides an up to 150W reduction in system power during gaming and other improvements, like a claimed 20% gain in threaded horsepower and a 5% gain in single-thread performance over the prior-gen, which helps offset the lack of gen-on-gen gaming gains.

The Intel launch comes on the heels of AMD’s tepid Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 launch, which saw AMD’s newest chips providing limited generational gaming improvements, so they couldn’t quite catch up to Intel. Naturally, given the performance we’ve seen with Intel’s new chips, AMD’s Zen 5 processors, which recently had pricing adjustments and firmware/OS enhancements, look much more promising than before — at least compared to Intel’s new chips. However, AMD also has its Ryzen 9000X3D processors slated for release early this month, and they will almost certainly be the new gaming performance champions.

That’s not to say that the Core Ultra 200S series doesn’t have its own charms. Intel employs a range of TSMC nodes for the different chiplets (called “tiles” in Intel parlance) in Arrow Lake. In fact, this marks Intel’s first mainstream desktop PC chip entirely fabricated using another company’s process node technology. Intel combines the more efficient process nodes with a radical new CPU core design that intersperses E-core clusters among the P-cores and discards Hyper-Threading entirely, thus claiming to deliver drastic power reductions that will result in a cooler and quieter PC.

Arrow Lake supports up to 192GB of DDR5 memory, but now in two flavors with two different base speeds. The chips support DDR5-6400 with DDR5 CUDIMMs, a new type of DIMM with an integrated clock driver (ckd) that boosts easily attainable stable clock frequencies by amplifying the signal, thus stabilizing the data eye. Unlike the clock redrivers present on fully-buffered registered DIMMs, the CUDIMM redrivers are said not to impose an additional clock cycle of latency (they use a less complicated and cheaper design).

Intel also points to much higher overclocking headroom with CUDIMMs and says DDR5-8000 appears to be the sweet spot (Gear 2). CUDIMMs should enable the use of poorer-quality DRAM ICs in higher-speed kits while simplifying the pricier DIMM PCB designs often required for higher-end memory. But motherboards with CUDIMM support may cost extra, and the CUDIMMs themselves are likely to carry a price premium, so you’ll need to pay close attention to the final cost before deciding whether CUDIMMs make sense.

Intel also supports standard DDR5, but at lower base speeds than it supports with CUDIMMs (the same DDR5-5600 as with its 14th Gen CPUs). Naturally, both types of memory are overclockable. Arrow Lake does support ECC memory, but it won’t be supported on consumer platforms — instead, that feature is reserved for enterprise-focused W-series motherboards.

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How to control individual app notifications in Windows 10

Windows 10 allows you to control notifications for each your apps individually. In addition to managing the notifications for each app individually, you can also turn on or off the notifications for all the available apps in a single go. The entire process of enabling or disabling the notifications for all apps in a single go, or for each app individually is explained below:

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How to configure Virtual desktops in Windows 10

Windows 10 allow you to add multiple desktops while using the OS. With the help of multiple virtual desktop windows, it becomes easier for you to work on more than one application simultaneously. Since many applications require that you use then in full screen mode (otherwise many of their options remain hidden or inaccessible), by adding a couple of virtual desktops on your Windows 10 computer, you can work on many applications simultaneously without minimizing or closing a single one.

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How to set up Skype in Windows 10

Skype (which is now owned by Microsoft) is available in Windows 10 as a built-in app. All you need to do in order to set it up is to log in with your Microsoft account, click the icon from the Start menu, and provide any information you are asked for.

If you are not logged in with your Microsoft account, you can still follow the on-screen instructions that appear when you click the Skype icon, and use either an existing Skype or Microsoft account to sign-in, or create a new Skype account altogether.

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How to assign a picture password in Windows 10

Just like on an Android phone, you can also use a drawing pattern to log on to your Windows 10 PC.

However, unlike Android devices, in Windows 10 you can choose an image on which you want draw. Every time you attempt to log on to Windows, the operating system displays the same image and lets you to draw the pattern before it allows you to access the PC.

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How to use Continuum in Windows 10

New to Windows 10, Continuum is a feature that allows the operating system’s interface to switch to Tablet Mode as soon as it detects that the display screen of a touchscreen device such as Microsoft Surface has been detached from its keyboard.

The moment you detach the monitor, Windows 10 displays a message asking to switch to Tablet Mode. When you tap the message, the Start menu appears similar to the one in Windows 8. Also, when Windows 10 enters the Tablet Mode, it switches to Full Screen allowing you to use the device as a full-fledged tablet.Continuum can be configured with more granularity by going to the Tablet Mode section from the SYSTEM window.

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