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[phoenk]

Many or even most repos are hosted by third parties, so aggregating statistics that way may not be super accurate....

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Commercial support is never going to have you installing random PPAs, they're not stack exchange. If your hardware or software is not officially supported,...

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Because the mainline kernel doesn't support the devices and features they need to support. That's what this effort is trying to fix: they are upstreaming...

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MSVC still exists too...

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This is a silly take. Most dependencies do something more complicated than "string splitting". We use dependencies because it is much easier...

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Except their complaints are all orthogonal to the purpose of a project like ungoogled-chromium? The purpose of that project is to strip out google-related...

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Native English speaker from the US, "More" might flow a bit smoother there, but "Greater" is still perfectly acceptable....

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The version of GTK is actually pretty significant. GTK 2 is quite dated and missing a ton of features, like HiDPI and Wayland support, not to mention...

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More and more programmers are also moving their workloads to the cloud. I have a four core laptop for work, but I rarely use all of the performance it...

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Many of us have moved on from X11, nothing particularly exciting about Firefox better supporting legacy systems. I'd be just as moved if they improved...

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I also agree with the sentiment to an extent. We should give Google credit here, they have made it so you can actually install one image on devices now....

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My understanding is that these would be cards from within the same family, such that they used the same instruction sets....

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I don't think you know what SDL is. Games don't "use SDL over X11." Games use SDL, and SDL talks to a display server on behalf of the game,...

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I don't think you understand what the purpose of wayland is, if your metric is purely gaming performance. Wayland has been successfully in use for years...

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Games using SDL2 generally don't talk to X11 directly, everything is routed through SDL2. SDL2 supports Wayland, and while X11 is still its default backend,...