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[stormcrow]

Developer intransigence is a Thing. In general, people literally don't like to learn new things and they will make any excuse not to do so. And yeah,...

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I'm not really a "KDE people", on desktops I prefer XFCE, but I'm more concerned whether or not a UI design is functional, intuitive, and easily...

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Interactive responsiveness is notoriously difficult to quantify, and I wouldn't bet on Ubuntu wining on them either. One program can be fine and dandy...

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Really wish it wasn't so rare... But AMD is a corporation and they have a bottom line to think about. No corporation is ever truly a "friend"....

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A good followup question to System76 would be if the Coreboot firmware they use includes the IME disabling they've been working on since the IME vulnerabilities...

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It's not "inflated" if that's what the market is bearing out. Right now the prices at Newegg has AMD's R9 considerably more expensive than the...

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Containerization and virtualization are where Spectre and its family of vulnerabilities are most relevant. It won't stop these exploits. This is what...

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For a bit of context... the Intel CPU is actually cheaper than AMD's for once based on current prices on Amazon, which I can't remember happening in ages....

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oops double post on edit! BAD ME!

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He's not wrong. He's talking about the average desktop user who can barely turn on a computer and panics if their icon for the web browser disappears...

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I doubt the average desktop user cares or even knows about Linux to begin with. But I agree that ZFS generally isn't something the average desktop user...

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Perhaps. But it's difficult to overturn an entrenched incumbent. Code doesn't disappear. Companies aren't going to move existing work to Y when they have...

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While it would be nice, I think that boat has already sailed. CUDA is the GPGPU API of choice in most industries including graphics rendering development....

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It's taken AMD long enough to get to the point of forcing Intel into cutting prices... but I think this is a story about Hubris (with a capital H). Intel...

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Nonsense, compared to a lot of their competition they're doing extremely well. I had a G15 for years and while they didn't have official software for...

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Yeah, you're right I did overlook the point of the comment. I agree with the comment once I went back and reread it. Comprehension fail. I kinda went...

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Not at all. Not all CPUs even have an RDRAND equivalent to begin with. There's an ongoing discussion (with a recent patch set from Linus) on whether it's...

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It really depends on what you're looking for in the result. If you're looking for a broken register that repeats the same result over and over again,...

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I'd be worried more about real world metrics and whether or not the many performance detrimental mitigations against Intel's sloppy architectural decisions...

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Didn't say it was. Didn't say it was new either. Just pointing out "innovation" is just the latest in a long line of watered down English...