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by bgorman 6y ago
Wayland is the default display server for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. I have been running Wayland for the last 2 years and have never had any problems. (Admittedly I haven't used Nvidia)
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by bgorman 6y ago
Ubuntu is doing more harm than good to desktop linux at this point in time. Continuing to push Xorg over Wayland. Removing support for flatpak (cross-distro way of using sandboxed apps) Horrible PPA system that works much worse in practice
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by bgorman 6y ago
Yes, because Nvidia drivers are not part of the kernel they need to be updated manually and Nvidia does not distribute the source code, so you need to wait on Nvidia. Nvidia also doesn't support some of the APIs that AMD and Intel do,
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by bgorman 6y ago
You are correct - older hardware has suboptimal support. However - that laptop is at least eight years old. All the AMD graphics cards since Polaris have good support.
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by bgorman 6y ago
If you have Intel or AMD graphics work perfectly under Linux. You don't even need to install drivers because they are shipped in the Kernel.
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by bgorman 6y ago
I really like what System76 is doing by catering to power users and developers. However I think that long-term Ubuntu is not an ideal base, and I would prefer a rolling-release distribution with minimal packages, a good ports system and the
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by bgorman 6y ago
Sure. Most of the world does not live in western countries (As a simplification think Europe, Australia, US, Canada etc). In general, most of the world's valuable intellectual property has originated from Western countries. What intell
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by bgorman 6y ago
Intellectual property is the probably the number one way the western world oppresses the poor.
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by bgorman 7y ago
The Pixel 3a has an OLED display, and probably the best update guarantees you can get on Android. Why are you expecting Android phones to come with a 4-5 year warranty? The iPhone comes with a 1 year warranty
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by bgorman 7y ago
If you put a LCD display next to a OLED display, the difference is striking. Pretty much every Android phone has a better display, and is easier on the eyes.
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by bgorman 7y ago
> Imagine a point of sale system. Retail workers have to use that stuff the whole day. This means it nearly never makes sense to sacrifice power user efficiency just to be able to tell some manager who will never have to work with the da
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by bgorman 7y ago
How does one draw the line between necessary marketing/sales expenses and unnecessary ones? Even some of the most "innovative" companies like Apple spend billions on advertising. I don't have an MBA but it seems pretty m
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by bgorman 7y ago
There is a clear goal of lockdown policies in the US: to advance the political ambitions of politicians. Many politicians see this as their time in the spotlight, their time to show off their "executive" skills, their time to blam
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by bgorman 7y ago
If Clojurescript can actually work with Webpack and external modules under advanced compilation that is pretty amazing progress. Probably the biggest improvement in half a decade.
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by bgorman 7y ago
What were you using prior to 20.04?
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by bgorman 7y ago
Thanks, this is definitely worth a shot
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by bgorman 7y ago
Gnome 3 runs like an absolute dog on my Skylake notebook using Ubuntu 19.10. I don't know what metrics you have been looking at, but as a regular user I "feel" that the UI is constantly lagging during regular use. I didn&#x27
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by bgorman 7y ago
This would be a major game changer. Fedora does things the right way Linux support wise (not relying on proprietary drivers). Combined with the high build quality of a thinkpad, this may become the go-to developer laptop.
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by bgorman 7y ago
Podman is a technical superior implementation to docker. No background daemon is required to run. See details here: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/02/21/podman-and-bui... I'm not sure what
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by bgorman 7y ago
What does Ubuntu offer over Fedora or Red Hat enterprise Linux? I'm not saying everyone should run Gentoo, I'm just saying that there is a much more of a justification for Gentoo existing than Ubuntu. Ubuntu just re-invents the wh
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by bgorman 7y ago
Sure, Ubuntu and Debian change the source code/setup of upstream packages, and generally add very little value compared to just using Gentoo/Arch/Red Hat based distros which actually use upstream components with much less tou
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by bgorman 7y ago
Honestly the only Linux distros worth trying are Gentoo, Arch, Fedora and RHEL/Oracle/CentOS. With anything else you are just wasting your time with amateur hour attempts to cobble together a Windows/Mac OS competitor without
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by bgorman 7y ago
I have also been a dbeaver user, but DBeaver 7 has been really unstable for me and has caused me to look for alternatives.
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by bgorman 7y ago
Don't take my word for it. Here is an article by a Stanford epidemiologist calling for random testing a month ago: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a... We need data to act obje
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by bgorman 7y ago
The thing you are missing is world governments want to milk this crisis, not act objectively. There is simply no other explanation.
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by bgorman 7y ago
I don't really think Luminus is really a framework, it is more like a template to get started with a curated list of libraries that has changed over time. I believe Luminus has had some pretty major changes over the years such as chang
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by bgorman 7y ago
Have there been any attempts to use generative testing (e.g. quickcheck) or dependent types to verify processors? I am not sure how quite how this would be integrated into the synthesis of the processor, but it seems to be in line with the
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by bgorman 7y ago
On Windows/MacOS, the communication between the operating system and external devices (drivers) are completely shrouded in mystery. Theoretically the Nvidia graphics driver could be intercepting all your ethernet packets and sending th
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by bgorman 7y ago
Clearly factually my statement is incorrect. However there certainly was a lot of cross-polination of enlightenment ideas between the early US, France and England.
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by bgorman 7y ago
Germany is an example of how European countries do not have as strong protection for freedom of religion and freedom of speech in the US.

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