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To my understanding, it means the savings can be as little as 1% or as high as 5%. An average of 3% isn't that impressive, but saying "a 5% savings"...

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It seems a bit suspicious to me how so many of AMD's employees (not just Koduri or Keller) end up at Intel, despite the fact that Intel's products never...

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I don't have my KDE setup in front of me, but from what I recall, you want to edit the "Session" variable in /etc/sddm.conf to use "plasmawayland.desktop"....

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I completely forgot about this. I remember this was one of the go-to for PTS benchmarks, back when Steam wasn't really used on Linux (and in turn, very...

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Those are some pretty good improvements, considering the performance of this CPU was already pretty good. Assuming this affects all OSes, kinda sucks...

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Would something like this impact the visual quality of the game?

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Hmm that's pretty weird. There are a lot of potential factors I can think of that may be causing this issue:
1. Is Mesa working properly when...

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What hardware are you using and with what drivers? My Haswell-based laptop runs KDE+Wayland very smoothly.
I've heard how setting the rendering...

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You do realize that practically everything a computer does is math, right? That's kind of where the name comes from. I understand it may not seem that...

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It's a little bit ridiculous it took them this long. I've been using arandr for years since it's basically what XFCE should've had from the beginnin...

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Except Arch has a far more up-to-date, accurate, and complete Wiki than Debian... Also for the most part, they keep up a hell of a lot better than Debian...

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I have no clue where you're getting any of this from. Testing is basically just packages that trickled down from Sid, minus a few obscure ones here and...

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I'm so confused... I thought you were saying Testing is bad because of the human delay factor, and now you're saying only Stable and Sid have it? Also,...

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I thought the 580 was always known to be better than the 1060?

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And yet you also advocate for Stable? Don't you realize that has a human delay factor, too? Keep in mind that Debian's Stable devs patch a lot of their...

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Because as clarified before, Sid is unstable (both literally and by definition) and in Debian's definition, stable=old, and sometimes year-old software...

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What's the point of using sid if you don't update often? Also, if this is some basic system where you're not doing anything special with it (like a media...

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Unlike Debian Sid, Arch is actually pretty reliable. I have never had a Sid install that survived more than 2 years without major breakages, meanwhile...

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Strange how gaming performance still isn't all that great.

Thanks for posting the $/performance graphs - not enough reviewers do this.

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To my understanding, the biggest differences between Polaris and Vega AIBs was the memory and video decoders. Obviously there are definitely more differences...