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  • On desktop PCs, Depending upon the Motherboard manufacturer and model series, it could either mean nothing other than some gaming marketing jargon or…

    When a motherboard has both red and blue ports, the Red ones could be those connected directly to the CPU lanes for USB, with the blue ones being routed through the PCH.
    If there is just one red coloured USB A port, it might be designated for BIOS updates (unless they have another colour for that).



  • Swype typing can get pretty fast tbh. But that greatly depends upon the software.
    Despite the hate it got, Windows Phone’s default keyboard had a far superior swype experience as compared to Android and iOS. Probably because they didn’t try to inculcate all user words into their dictionary and used the sentence structure as a reference to rank the predicted words.

    Had this one been OSS, it would have been a great service. But now it has been scrapped along with the rest of Windows Phone. One of the reasons why I hate to think of what would happen to any high effort thing I make in a company.












  • Steam ⇒ No Ubuntu

    For Word/Excel alternatives, I would suggest LibreOffice fresh. So, go with one that gives recent versions of it [1].

    can I operate a Linux PC these days without needing to troubleshoot or type code.

    That will vary greatly depending upon your Hardware selection. I was lucky enough to manage a good enough setup (adding extra effort to check Motherboard components) for Linux support and still have a few problems. [I am unable to get CPU fan speed (tachometer reading).]

    I like Endeavour OS, but it being rolling on Arch, means, it is for someone who is happy with troubleshooting and bug reporting.

    I had tried Open SUSE for a bit (back then, I hardy knew Linux) and liked that too.

    Debian probably won’t work either, because, even though it is something you probably won’t need to troubleshoot for years, once setup, Steam will make it hard for you and Discord, well, no idea. I removed it after declining the new TOS.


    1. I hated the problems with older versions, which seem to be greatly reduced in the newer ones ↩︎