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Given that 99.999% of usage of wine is games, I don't think it's really importable or noticeable....

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Yes but at least the NSA doesn't make you poof when you talk about them....

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They should add run-time control for the backdoors too.

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I'm not sure if this is just a troll or not, it's a bunch of rubbish.

There are a multitude of reasons why Nvidias kernel driver, which is...

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Because it's argued a lot of these use cases isn't the responsibility of a display server API and is too high level for it. Hence, a lot of this stuff...

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Whilst both are dwarfed by Red Hat, Pop OS is nothing close to Ubuntu in terms of package maintenance and support....

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The Flatpak version has better sandboxing when using non-Ubuntu....

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systemd itself is fast, it's the configuration that distros/packages ship with that slow down a perceived boot.

e.g. GDM waits for network-wait-online,...

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X was designed for when applications asked the display server to draw 2d widgets for them, print for them etc, as it was considered that the user at the...

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Try getting a windows application to touch applications running as another user or the UAC prompt....

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Xorg can't keep your session if it crashes, what are you talking about.

No different with Wayland here, if your display server crashes your...

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European alternative to RHEL, it's easier for some European companies to work with....

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Whenever you think life is boring, you can be thankful that the GNU Boot/Libreboot fiasco puts off enough drama to make things interesting.

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Could this be used to fix Xwayland on Nvidia?

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They're still compiled with the kernel, run with the kernel in kernel space and will only run with that compiled kernel. Modules in Linux are only modulear...

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It's not fair when these rules are not codified, or are seemingly created on the whim, and finding them means crawling and analysing the most inaccessible...

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I think many Android companies don't really care if their driver is GPL or not, they just can't be bothered to go through the upstream process, and who...

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Hostility?

This is just the kernel maintainers trying to enforce people follow the kernel software license, rather than using workarounds....

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>Snap isn't crap. Snap is great as it increases security through sandboxing

Isn't sand-boxing on selinux distros still a joke? Nice s...

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Because CUPS is a system component, and systemd can already do "containerization" of system services....