Interesting that the reviewer is using Linux 4.19, considering 4.18 was released on Sunday (2 days ago) so the merge window just opened for that version.
As someone writing an article, I guess it’s difficult to know where to stop the details or not as well. Like, that’s probably a difficult line to draw? Either way, though, I think there’s probably an easy way to tell that I just don’t 100% know how to explain objectively.
Interesting that the reviewer is using Linux 4.19, considering 4.18 was released on Sunday (2 days ago) so the merge window just opened for that version.
This doesn’t feel like a review as much as if feels like Intel bashing and AMD advertising. I’d like to see more data from actually using the device.
Everything in this article could be assumed from just reading the specs, I think.
when clicking through to the pages after the first, there are benchmark results: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-linux-2990wx&num=4
Ooooh, that makes more sense… Not sure if that doesn’t show up on mobile or if maybe I thought it was links to comments?
Apparently not, considering that the same CPU has a 50% performance penalty on Windows.
Well, that’s a strawman if I’ve ever seen one.
This is a problem with posting product reviews (read: hardware news, which is news) here.
As someone writing an article, I guess it’s difficult to know where to stop the details or not as well. Like, that’s probably a difficult line to draw? Either way, though, I think there’s probably an easy way to tell that I just don’t 100% know how to explain objectively.