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[stormcrow]

The real solution is to get rid of GRUB 2 as another has mentioned. Putting lipstick on a pig isn't going to fix the problem that GRUB 2 was poorly...

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A) Sweeney despises what he can't bully. B) The dust up between Epic and Apple is 90% Epic self inflicted. See point A. That was a matter of contract...

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With systemd's pace of annoying feature creep, give it time....

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PR can have technical reasons. Public relations is ... get this -- establishing and maintaining relationships with the public through things the public...

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Naw, this isn't a PR push to the general public. Most people don't even understand why they should even care about security and how device security...

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I'm one of the ones cheering this on. I'm not a direct NetBSD user. I use FreeBSD for my file & local DNS server, so there's plenty of BSD code...

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Source? I'm not disputing some probably do. I'm disputing the "almost all", specifically because of the problem with HDR and HiDPI to a lesser...

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It's obvious. Because even $200 - $300 monitors have HDR-10 now, and Linux's support is abysmal. It's not even all that great for HiDPI. Studios are...

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Ouch. And I thought my Gen 8 Dell was bad.

Answering from above: Because it IS a work laptop and the majority of customers don't want to...

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Improper shielding, poor quality components from Asia. I've a Dell G5 that can't do 2.4 GHz WIFI and Bluetooth at the same time. Dell doesn't do RF...

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About that time those still on 8 might have been persuaded to move to Java 11... but not Oracle's version. :P...

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Don't know about everyone, but Autopsy still uses 8....

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No, they know that business (and by business you should assume enterprise level with IT support departments) customers have support contracts and it's...

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The theory is sound. The implementations of it, especially the shim idea, sucks. This could be a useful security feature if used properly. Just that...

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From what I understand, there's already some very limited user space handling of interrupts in the kernel. The UIO driver (User space I/O) does that....

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For a case of TL;DR... to answer the original question: performance and compatibility....

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These are kernel settings. Programs don't change them. They have to be set before boot. I think the only one that's partly program-callable is the...

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Um. Because that's how hardware support works? Intel, IBM, Samsung, on and on are no different. You submit as many patches as needed to get your hardware...

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Cool. :thumbs up: ...

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If you have a problem with the benchmark, YOU need to prove your point. That's exactly how it works! Burden of proof is on the person raising the objection....