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[Charlie68]

Compatibility with 32-bit applications is one thing, installing Mint (Ubuntu) on a 32-bit PC is another thing, they are different.
The first is...

[Charlie68]

Whenever an open source project is born, there is always someone who says they should improve this or that, but ignore what open source means. If some...

[Charlie68]

Welcome experimental Ubuntu in the new millennium!

[Charlie68]

I disagree on the stability of Plasma 5, today it is mature and stable, however some distributions treat it as second-class DE and does not receive the...

[Charlie68]

I use KDE on Wayland daily in Tumbleweed, without any particular problems. It is true that some things are still missing, but in general it works well...

[Charlie68]

Most users don't have a clue what an init service is, most of the remaining users don't care about changing the init service because they don't care....

[Charlie68]

In reality it is not the task of the distribution to do it, among other things it only keeps one of the DEs that are shipped, but in this case if not...

[Charlie68]

Everyone uses the DE that they prefer, there is no best, there is the best for me or for you etc.
Every time you read about quite unnecessary discussions...

[Charlie68]

I guess the reason is simple, in Wayland it works well, on Xorg there are problems, I see it when on Xorg I use Chromium with VA-API, there are some problems,...

[Charlie68]

VAAPI actually works very well in Chromium on openSUSE in wayland. However I noticed that while Firefox with the default settings, weighs heavily on the...

[Charlie68]

But it's not built on GCC 9.3! ...

[Charlie68]

I'm on a low-end notebook, AMD Quad Core E2-3800 processor and AMD HD Radeon 8280 graphics....

[Charlie68]

The graphic flaws are only in the Xorg session, use Wayland and it will work very well.
EDIT.
I tried to enable the flags recommended by ...

[Charlie68]

... and I look forward to seeing them! ...

[Charlie68]

Hi, on this notebook I don't have sensitive data, so I'm quite calm. I know very well that it's not a great idea and I don't do it on my main pc, but...

[Charlie68]

Seen the home use of my notebook, I chose this solution.

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[Charlie68]

For information only, VAAPI is enabled in Chromium by default also in openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed, it works very well on Wayland, while on Xorg I find...

[Charlie68]

It is not unpopular what you say, it simply rarely corresponds to reality. If you tell me that Nvidia is still superior to AMD in terms of game performance,...