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Unfortunately GIMP still relies on GTK 2. 😥...

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The only software that I know that still use Qt 4 is Hydrogen Music 0.9.7, but luckily 1.0.0-beta uses Qt 5.

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It would be cool if Intel made a Raspberry Pi like baby NUC powered by an Atom.

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With RISC-V you have an open instruction set.

Intel and AMD have binary blobs all over, proprietary microarchitecture built upon a proprietary...

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Comet Lake is a fourth generation Skylake, it is a old processor with a new name.
Note that Comet Lake is built on their old 14 nm technology, not...

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Oh, there it is. Both on Snap and Flatpak.
https://snapcraft.io/blender
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.blender.Blender...

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It's not on Ubuntu 19.10 the repository yet. I hope it arrives in the repository soon.

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Wait, wasn't POWER already open source since years ago?

Either way, now that POWER, SPARC, MIPS and RISC-V are all open source, I think that...

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Does this XWayland sudo work mean that it will be possible to run the Synaptic package manager on Wayland?
I wish Synaptic was ported to Wayland,...

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I think War§ow is a really cool game, it is innovative and have a distinct game play and game mechanics which include running on walls, and using walls...

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How much of an architecture improvement is Ice Lake over its predecessors?
And how much more secure is it?

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Yeah, so maybe Windows 10 wont be a success. But ARM might be interesting for companies like System76 who sells Linux laptops....

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As far as I know, all the mobile phones got hardware-accelerated decoding of video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qualcomm_Snapd...

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Microsoft was never a major hardware player like Dell and HP. Microsoft with their Surface RT attempt was a long time ago, on the ARMv7, since then ARM...

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With rumors about Apple making laptops based on the ARM architecture, and Samsung making Galaxy Book S which is based on the ARM architecture with Windows...

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Oh, it is a nice improvement that it these days use UTF-8 by default.
I think hyperlinks are part of the document and if a publisher does not want...

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Oh, I didn't know it was possible to script with Python, that is really cool.

Personally I find LaTeX pretty difficult, but it is a cool...

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Seems pretty weird reason to like LibreOffice. Sounds like you don't even like LibreOffice and only like it because of Microsoft Office.

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I can highly recommend Arc theme, it is very beautiful.

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Michael, these graphs are beautiful! I love them!