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[schmidtbag]

Seems like a good idea to me. With limited developers, the BSDs in general need to focus on what they can actively maintain.


I hardly...

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Good progress with a lot of this. Nice to see some power-saving profiles with minimal performance losses.


And laptops...

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I would think that in order for this to work reliably, the instructions to create the code would have to always be present in memory. Seems rather wasteful...

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I don't really see the issue. I doubt there's much more to maintain about this. If you've got a CPU old enough that DXVK gives you a worse framerate,...

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This is also the kernel release where AMD's HDMI audio gets a patch too, right? Because the current state of it is getting pretty irritating and I can't...

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I would argue you're being naive if you think they're going to make money leaving it as-is and spending their money on assets that depend on a trustworthy...

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Yes; AMD's Mesa code (particularly OpenGL) is pretty solid. RADV is solid too. Everything else (which includes Windows), not so much....

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Yes, GPU drivers. As far as I know, AMD's powerhouse "AI" products are primarily GPUs. I'm aware of the Alveo series but I get the impression...

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I've used a wide variety of ARM platforms with minimal fuss; if there's an armbian image, you can feel pretty confident it'll work well. I've never really...

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Well if you're going to run headless, you can get a lot more bang for buck from a wide variety of alternatives. Most of the alternatives are unappealing...

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AMD,
Just fix your damn drivers (which includes fully supporting devices older than last-gen), and re-instate ZLUDA. Those aren't too much to ask....

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In memory-intensive workloads, I would actually expect power consumption to go up, since cycles have to be wasted swapping things in and out of memory....

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I would hope this is a disabled-by-default feature because it sounds like a security issue waiting to happen.

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What's with the hate? This CPU has a pretty decent performance uplift in most tests (often beating Intel where they used to be #1) while consuming less...

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That makes even less sense and quite the egoist perspective - you're implying here everyone should just follow your principles? And like I said, you're...

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Your comment makes no sense. Kinda the whole point of shoving Linux on it is to increase consumer freedom of their hardware and use it the way we want....

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Nuc!eoN wants the window borders to match his PC's LED lighting scheme. Generally, those lights slowly fade between colors, rather than flash...

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Yes but nobody said anything about flashing. If your entire peripheral vision is slowly changing colors, it's not likely to be distracting.
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Nuc!eoN royce
Seeing as Phoronix is the internet HQ of armchair experts, it should be no surprise that some people here look at aesthetics as if...

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It's good to see a KDE update to be rather boring. Means things are getting rather polished.
personally, I've had a very good experience with KF6...