![]() The title of the game is Desktop Destroyer, but some people use the longer name Stress Reducer Desktop Destroyer just in case you are wondering. Author of the game is Gemtree Software and it is completely free to download. ![]() ![]() You are downloading Desktop Destroyer 3D Screensaver Free, version 2.0. Please bear in mind that the use of the software might be restricted in terms of time or functionality. The download is provided as is, with no modifications or changes made on our side.Let's put aside that crazy high-resolution screen for a moment and focus on the rest of the hardware. To get this out of the way right now: It's fast. To give you an idea of the speed here – I have a Sony-built Core i5 laptop (with 8GB of RAM, and a pretty standard 5200 rpm laptop hard drive) that I have been using for video editing work. One of my most recent video projects took roughly 70 minutes to render (1080p) on that Sony machine. See also: Review: Google's Nexus 9 is an awesome tablet, with some caveats I copied over that project to the Dell M3800 and used the exact same software ( Kdenlive) and settings to render the video. In other words: The M3800 was (nearly) 6 times faster, and would save me almost an hour of rendering time. Part of the difference is, surely, the faster processor. But also the faster RAM, the solid state drive, and the (far more advanced) graphics card in the M3800. That's as much RAM as this, very nice, Nexus 9 Android tablet sitting next to me has… in total. One of the greatest tests of any video card – in my humble opinion – is to throw a few video games at it. So I loaded up Steam and installed a few games that I had a high level of familiarity with, and I was consistently blown away.Įxample: I installed Civilization V (the Linux version, naturally). This is a strategy game, but it's a very 3D one (and can be rather taxing on a system). I set the resolution to the full "4K" resolution (which I was surprised so many games supported) and set every single graphics setting to the highest level. I experience the occasional stutter – and a tiny bit of lag – but overall it was damned impressive. Dialing back either a handful of the graphical options or lowering the resolution to something more reasonable (such as a full 1080p) got rid of those stutters entirely. Now, here's why that is so great: This testing was done entirely using the, Open Source, Nouveau driver. There are also proprietary Nvidia drivers that the M3800 ships with (or can be obtained from ). ![]() See also: Ultimate guide to Linux desktop environments DESKTOP DESTROYER ANDROID DRIVERĪnd you know what? The closed source Nvidia driver definitely provided a noticeable performance improvement – but the performance with the Open Source driver was, already, absolutely fantastic. The Nvidia card isn't the only part of this system that worked well with Open Source drivers – everything else did as well. It all worked great, right out of the box, with every Linux distribution I tried. The M3800 ships with Ubuntu, which it works great with. But, as a Linux nerd, I needed to know how well this piece of hardware ran with the other Linux distros I'm likely to use. Every single system ran great with absolutely zero issues. Not once did I need to go hunting on a forum for details on how to get my Wi-Fi (etc.) working. Out of the box this laptop supports Linux, in general, incredibly well. One (slightly weird) quirk worth mentioning: This unit has no built-in Ethernet port. It ships with a USB-to-Ethernet dongle that worked well when I tested it (admittedly, that test was simply to see if it worked before reverting back to Wi-Fi… which is what I usually use anyway). I don't usually plug into an Ethernet network very often… so I suppose… it's a good thing? I'm not sure if I think this is a problem or a great feature. Let's talk a bit more about this display, because it's fairly ridiculous. It turns out having a full "4K" screen packed into only 15.6 inches makes for some serious pixel density. Which is amazing for all the same reasons that having an Ultra-HD/4K TV is amazing. You can play four 1080p videos, simultaneously, tiled in a grid. How crazy is that?īut this resolution, in this size of a screen, also has a major downside: Some stuff just gets too damned small.
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