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[sandy8925]

RealNC - It's a small amount of lag, it will be unnoticeable during average use (browsing, document editing etc.). It's what Android does by default,...

[sandy8925]

Well if you boot multiple OS, then Grub is invaluable. if it's just the one, then yes alternatives like systemd-boot and refind are a good idea.
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[sandy8925]

That still doesn't sound like a bug in KWin, it's more like NVIDIA does something custom and they're adding an environment variable for KWin, to tell...

[sandy8925]

Companies like Facebook love open source software and open firmware, because they love having total control over their machines.

They don't...

[sandy8925]

This is an awesome project, and I'm glad it was done. I played Skyrim on Linux, it was amazingly smooth. Witcher 3 still doesn't work well, I'll have...

[sandy8925]

Ah I see. Yeah, I'm using SATA drives on my desktop, and their max read/write speed is 480 MB/sec, while the CPU's AES encryption/decryption is around...

[sandy8925]

Hm, those results seem a bit weird. If using AES XTS, and with AESNI being present and enabled, there shouldn't be much of a performance impact IMO.

[sandy8925]

Interesting. Does anyone know if Freedreno is actually used on any production device? Are any Android phones using Freedreno, or going to use it?

[sandy8925]

torsionbar28 - Well Intel GPU driver was quite good. The main problem was that the hardware wasn't high performance, they just made iGPUs. With the upcoming...

[sandy8925]

Nice work by the AMD team! The performance is pretty competitive when compared to the NVIDIA GPUs.

[sandy8925]

starshipeleven - That's not enough. You need open source GPU, WiFi, Bluetooth, camera drivers. High quality ones like Intel's. I admire the reverse engineering...

[sandy8925]

Sigh. This will not be a good experience for power users. The only way this works is if you ship with some system like ChromeOS, Android etc. which ship...

[sandy8925]

Thanks for the benchmarks, quite useful! It gives me hope that my older CPUs can have decently fast VP9 decoding/encoding without using the CPU too m...

[sandy8925]

One thing to note is that AMD and NVIDIA have only added support for Adaptive Sync that's part of the DisplayPort specification - so only GPUs that support...

[sandy8925]

schmidtbag - It says that's done for depth, not colour.

[sandy8925]

schmidtbag - You're forgetting the alpha channel.