leopold

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leopold,

I wonder if native D3D would really help at all. Most OpenGL drivers in Mesa are really Gallium drivers. Gallium is a low level internal Mesa API uses to implement support for higher level APIs, including OpenGL and Direct3D 9. Vulkan support isn’t implemented on top of Gallium, because Vulkan is apparently lower level than Gallium is. These drivers are still pretty damn fast, despite having to go through and intermediate API. If Gallium is fast enough for OpenGL drivers, I don’t see why the lower level Vulkan can’t be fast enough for Direct3D drivers. As far as I’m aware, the performance difference between DXVK/VKD3D and Direct3D drivers on Windows is already negligible.

leopold,

I’ve personally had the best experience with Thunderbird, YMMV.

leopold,

idk about others but I do use my Steam Deck for web browsing quite heavily. It’s basically my laptop right now.

leopold,

Nvidia drivers are mostly bad for Wayland afaik. Games shouldn’t be particularly problematic.

leopold,

It’s definitely not 20%-30% behind. I’d say the difference is usually 10% or less. Sometimes DXVK is even a little ahead. Does depend on the game and drivers, tho.

leopold,

sure, any Apple keyboard

leopold,

Oh boy, 102 comments. Knowing Phoronix, I bet those are a treat to read.

leopold,

I have found no such instances. Software which is only officially packaged as deb will usually be unofficially repackaged on the AUR regardless.

(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

I’ve been distrohopping for a while now, and eventually I landed on Arch. Part of the reason I have stuck with it is I think I had a balanced introduction, since I was exposed to both praise and criticism. We often discuss our favorite distros, but I think it’s equally important to talk about the ones that didn’t quite hit...

leopold, (edited )

I very much don’t care for ElementaryOS, but I really don’t think it’s fair to paint it as “Ubuntu painted up to look like MacOS”. It’s not just GNOME with some extensions. They made a whole desktop environment and suite of applications for their distro. That’s a ton of work. I think any distro that does that deserves some amount of respect.

leopold, (edited )

Afaik the only way to avoid translating into OpenGL and Vulkan would be to write native drivers. Stuff like gallium-nine, for instance. Is that what this project is doing? Though obviously that’s just for the Direct3D side of things and there’s a lot more to DirectX than just that. Still, it’s hard not to question how much of this is just duplicating work already done for Wine.

leopold,

I mean, not really. You own the stuff you create regardless of who’s hosting it. Microsoft doesn’t own the copyright for the millions of projects hosted on GitHub either.

leopold,

I mean, probably not. That’s such a short post, chances are courts wouldn’t find it copyrightable. And obviously attaching a license at the end of your comments is useless in practice, because no one on the internet actually properly engages with copyright law. Plus suing over copy-pasting someone’s social media post is dumb as hell and no one does that, tho I do think you could technically do it and win, because current copyright laws make zero sense if you actually stop and think about it for any amount of time.

leopold,

Not really. You’ve granted the owner some rights, such as the right to host your content and present it to any user on the platform, but they don’t own it. Twitter can’t start using any art hosted on their platform for their branding, because it’s no theirs.

leopold,

Which hasn’t been free of legal challenges. Current copyright law doesn’t account for machine learning, which is what allows them to do this. This could soon change.

leopold,

This is about the Unity game engine, not the unrelated Unity desktop shell from Canonical.

leopold,

Kinda. The problem was fixed in Qt6 and current KDE is Qt5. It’ll be fixed once Plasma 6 releases in February.

leopold,

I imagine once Wayland finally wins i3 users will turn into Sway users and that’s about it.

leopold,

Kubuntu is also semi-annual, but LTS releases only come every two years. Regular releases have a year and a half of support.

leopold,

my experience with it is that it performs significantly better than the official Flash Player

leopold,

GPT in French is literally pronounced the same as “I farted”.

leopold,

Plasma supports animated wallpapers out of the box. No need for third party plugins that rely on proprietary software like Wallpaper Engine.

leopold,

It never occurred to me before reading this comment that there actually is a use case for the execute permission. To me it was always just this annoying thing I have to do whenever I download an executable which I didn’t have to do on Windows.

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