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Ubuntu alone could be the reason for your troubles with Qt. I'm not sure if you're aware but Canonical made it very difficult for Kubuntu to exist, particularly...

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With optimization differences that minimal, I think I'd rather take the easy way out and not bother using znver1.

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You have to start out small. Even if you're an experienced programmer in another language, you're going to have a hard time switching to another language...

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I actually wrote about Gentoo before submitting my post but that was kind of besides the point; it is too much of an exception.


Thanks...

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Nice, let's just hope it is polished enough. Seems to me it was submitted at last minute. But, even if it's a little glitchy in some cases, that's better...

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Do you know that, or are you just assuming that since that's how things typically work? I get the impression AMD's GPU development team is a bit more...

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To my knowledge, GTK Builder can be used for any language, including Python. I personally never used it, but several years ago I used Glade, which was...

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driconf to my knowledge adapts to mesa, so aside from using a modern toolkit (like GTK3 or Qt5) it effectively remains up-to-date. I do agree it could...

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It seems not all 290s are equal. For example, Michael's 290 was un-testable for several months (maybe even over a year?), meanwhile mine ran flawlessly...

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Wait for the Etherium mining craze to die down or end. At that point you can get yourself a bunch of used or refurbished Polaris' for cheap. I've thrown...

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Yes, but it's the same development team. Doesn't matter who is doing what if that person could have spent time working on something else....

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Of course they did, why wouldn't they? The last Broadwell chip was released waaaaay back in 2016. We can't realistically expect them to maintain such...

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I agree - in fact, I think the PSU I tested with actually has 3 rails. Really terrible unit, but I got it for free, and it is good enough when trying...

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They can't do anything about the heat, that's just the nature of the product. I'm guessing you are using the reference cooler? My 290 rarely exceeds 70C,...

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Very exciting numbers overall. These differences will really help close the performance gap, both between Nvidia and AMD's Windows drivers. Imagine...

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I was thinking the same thing. AMD GPUs only tend to get real power hungry when you're pushing them to their limits, but the wattage gap (compared to...

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I've been using KDE with Arch for a couple months and it is mostly stable. Plasma desktop is currently the glitchiest aspect about it.
CPU usage...

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The motherboard sensor seems pretty accurate, at least in my case. It may be off by a few degrees but accuracy is somewhat irrelevant as long as the...

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I suspect the price changed for a few reasons:
1. Back when those chips were still $1K, there were still more enticing options, like Xeons or 12-core...

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So you're telling me the 1950X is on par with the 7900X? The 1950X has 16 more PCIe lanes, 6 more cores (12 more threads), a lower TDP, and yet costs...