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[Sniperfox47]

There is 0 need to get your bootloader signed by Microsoft *for UEFI*.

You can't take my comment out of the context of the entire conversation...

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And what does that have to do with UEFI? That these devices don't support anything other than Windows is an issue with these devices, not an issue with...

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What problems are those?

Bugs? Was it really any worse than half the BIOS builds out there?

And what do you mean it has to be...

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I mean, then you have a bootloader... your EFI shell is itself an EFI boot module that gets loaded by the core firmware, regardless of whether it's embedded...

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i mean, unless you want a way to conveniently edit kernel parameters before boot. My motherboard has a decent UEFI boot selection, but I still use rEFInd...

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You mean like how you can download the latest up to date UEFI drivers for those and load them as EFI modules? And download support for additional filesystems...

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In some industries it's because they have ancient legacy software written in obscure niche programming languages that almost nobody still writes and modernizing...

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Considering the laptop space is still growing and the desktop space grew for the first time in years due to gaming machine sales, it's pretty safe to...

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The xdg desktop portal readme previously reported that it needed flatpak so the package maintainer likely just read the readme and figured it was telling...

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Thanks for the links. I didn't realize that the initiative had anything public yet, look forward to checking it out....

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The Vulkan Portability Initiative at Kronos is the taskforce currently working on the SPIR-V to HLSL and MSL cross-compilers and establishing the subset...

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Pretty sure he was referring to the other way around. I.e. the Vulkan Portability Initiative.

If you're writing a Vulkan app for Windows...

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The point that's being snarkily made is that you do still have a GPU even if you disable the dedicated one and that a lot of software is still using that...

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The reason is simply for power conservation on laptops and mobile devices. You need to draw the web page and doing that on the GPU is *way* lighter and...

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I think you both may be missing the point. The key word there is currently. Currently it's not a problem at all because users...