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by bwat48 10y ago
I have a hard time believing there wasn't video drivers available for a windows pc
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by bwat48 10y ago
libreoffice is ugly, but functional enough. I use it on my windows machines as I really don't feel the need to pay for office for my home usage.
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by bwat48 10y ago
> The latter is the most important: Apple with its ultra tight control down to the tiniest chip on the motherboard can tune the performance in ways that cannot ever be achieved by either Windows or Linux, with 6+ hour usage times being t
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by bwat48 10y ago
Depends on the operating system. For example on an Android phone it will usually say 'authentication problem'
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by bwat48 10y ago
> Ivy Bridge would freeze X if I closed and opened the lid enough, but that disappeared with the next version of Ubuntu. Similar issue with Skylake Lemur, went away when I used Manjaro with Mesa 13. This kind of issue is why I stopped bo
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by bwat48 10y ago
As I read his replies, I was immediately thinking "why not just use middle click"? Then I saw that line and was just confused. Maybe he has a mouse with a really terrible scroll wheel and has assumed that all scroll wheels are ter
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by bwat48 10y ago
> or using a wonky middle mouse button that most non-Solaris users never use .... What? I've always used windows, OSX and occasionally linux (have never used solaris) and I've always found middle click to open links in the back
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by bwat48 10y ago
"Also, another issue is that there are thousands of different ways across all of the apps for how to interact with them. Some have "Quit" options, some have top bars, some have icons everywhere. There isn't cohesion.&quo
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by bwat48 10y ago
vivaldi's ui is web based and even slower than chrome's though
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by bwat48 10y ago
Wasn't it microsoft that fired a bunch of QA engineers?
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by bwat48 10y ago
Maybe systems that have 8gb ram but have integrated graphics that reserve a portion of system memory?
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by bwat48 10y ago
by default windows 10 will show you 'suggested' apps in your start menu programs list. This can be disabled in the settings (just open settings and search for suggestions)
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by bwat48 10y ago
I love my 2013 macbook air, but when it comes time to upgrade if I can't even do something as simple as plug in my headphones without a dongle there's no way I'm considering a macbook.
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by bwat48 10y ago
My nexus 7 became utterly unusable over time, even after a complete factory reset. The only way I was able to make it remotely usable was to install an old version of cyanogen mod and install only bare minimum apps.
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by bwat48 10y ago
I can't believe this... what.cd's library and organization was completely unparalleled :(
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by bwat48 10y ago
I had a system76 laptop with ubuntu pre-installed and still had nothing but problems. I've tried a myriad of laptops (always with hardware that's supposed to play well with linux e.g. intel graphics/wifi etc...) with linux (a
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by bwat48 10y ago
Touche
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by bwat48 10y ago
I don't think they're saying it's a bad idea in general, the issue here seems mostly related to the shadow dom making it difficult/complicated for people to theme atom/re-use components etc... I'm not a web dev
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by bwat48 10y ago
afaik they mainly use clevo
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by bwat48 10y ago
edge's interface looks like it was designed in an intern's spare time
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by bwat48 10y ago
Opera has had a feature like this for a while too: http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/04/opera-beta-update...
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by bwat48 10y ago
> Mozilla was also the first to integrate the search and address fields, which they unfortunately stripped out of firefox (and many people think chrome introduced it). Do you know when this was introduced/removed? I'm curious a
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by bwat48 10y ago
> So will someone out-Firefox Firefox and do what Chrome was to Safari for multi-processing? Take the rendering engine and put a new chrome on top of it? I highly doubt it, as there's very little incentive to create a gecko based br
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by bwat48 10y ago
This is definitely true when it comes to graphics, linux is the redheaded step child when it comes to the graphics stack. Afaik firefox still doesn't have OpenGL accelerated compositing (at least not enabled in stable builds yet) on li
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by bwat48 10y ago
Have you tried with addons disabled? Your experience with E10s largely revolves around which addons you're using. Some addons use compatibility shims with multi-process and this can significantly harm performance in some cases (even po
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by bwat48 10y ago
removing the EME support would be a mistake, if people can't do something as simple as watching netflix in firefox, they won't bother using firefox. In any case, there will be an unbranded release of firefox eventually without the
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by bwat48 10y ago
Their power saver isn't on by default either
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by bwat48 10y ago
With chrome you have more control over the start page, in that you can change it from the default one to a totally different one, but when comparing opera's speed dial to chrome's default start page Opera's is definitely far
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by bwat48 10y ago
people are complaining about the terminology they're using, because it only effects Opera and not other applications, even though that was completely obvious from the start. They clarify it here: https://www.opera.com/b
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by bwat48 10y ago
Yeah people give the new Opera a pretty unfair rap, it's a good browser.

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