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[Leprechaunius]

A laptop "built for developers" without a numpad. LOL. HP must be smoking crack.

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Postgres guys are working on it I believe, but nothing hit the mainline yet afaik....

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I've been a long time Mint - Cinnamon user. But with every release I'm getting increasingly disappointed with Cinnamon.

• Very poor QA - every point release

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[Leprechaunius]

Um... What? Did you somehow miss the whole "Vendor-Agnostic" part mentioned in at least 5 different places? How is that misleading?...

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Can you please show me just one Java app, that doesn't bundle its own [native] dependencies? I've been working as a Java developer for at least 7 years...

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I have never understood the way Linux distros handle java. Just package the openjdk and select apps or tools (e.g. maven, or minecraft, or whatever) and...

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I'm not confusing that, although now that I read it back I could have made my point clearer, sorry for that.

The point is jfx is like a web...

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There's some misinformation in this thread. Let me make this right from a position of a long time Java dev.

First of all - no, java does...

[Leprechaunius]

I've been considering a switch to btrfs for some time. Are there any noticeable performance differences between btrfs and ext4?

[Leprechaunius]

Why are people even bothering adding features to the master branch of Xorg considering there won't be any release in the next decade?
Is there a...

[Leprechaunius]

Wow, what an absolute nightmare of a keyboard.

• No numpad
• Ultra tiny Enter
• Arrows cramped near the rest of the keys
• Left Alt waaay too much to

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[Leprechaunius]

But they are already maintaining the 1.20 releases anyway. If they are worried about the long term commitment, they can just announce a short-term support...

[Leprechaunius]

If they can release from 1.20.x branch so easily, why can't they simply make a build and release the 1.21.0 ?
What's the difference?

[Leprechaunius]

Depends on the UI toolkit: for AWT and Swing yes. But not for JavaFX afaik. Nowadays, with modularized JDK, you can throw that stuff out if you don't...

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Yes, I'm just rooting for a big break to happen. Something similar to what Python did. It could be done, but then again seeing how many companies are...