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[mark45]

I'm using 15.10 for like a month and it's good, but the typical Ubuntu issues are there: Nautilus still at 3.14, gedit still at 3.10 etc. while upstream...

[mark45]

A trillion improvements and fixes.

[mark45]

Some nouveau devs do get paid, but that's a different topic....

[mark45]

Which is why I told him about the decades old problem with hackers logic - they think people should embrace the idea fixing OS/software by themselves,...

[mark45]

You're wrong. I tested Fedora 23 and it doesn't work with nouveau OOTB, that's a problem that needs to be fixed, when it gets fixed people will not complain...

[mark45]

No, it's a nouveau problem. If nouveau shipped by default with firmware and the distro cuts out the firmware - that's a distro problem.

Not...

[mark45]

Good/proper OOTB VDPAU support for Nouveau.
Because statistically people watch video a lot more than play games. And OpenGL support in nouveau is...

[mark45]

It's about the default browser, you'll still be able to "apt-get install firefox" no matter what they decide....

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Nvidia has been working on this for years and by now I'm tired of waiting, all hope is on nouveau to become usable and it's not because of no vdpau ootb....

[mark45]

As to Gnome HIG, it's as demagogic as the GNU crowd, so follow Linus' advice:
"First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding...

[mark45]

"Except Flash"
But Flash is the only plug-in I have in FF.

[mark45]

As they say, Perl is the only language that looks the same before and after encryption.

[mark45]

Although WinXP has 10% market share, it's not worth supporting it unless you got a client asking for it worth the effort.
Though, for the Ministry...

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"if it isn't broke, don't fix it" - like the Koran, this phrase is used by demagogues so often that I developed a knee-jerk reaction to object...

[mark45]

Very informative, thanks.
Although it might not be related to the windowing system (or the win system is not the only issue), iirc I issued vdpauinfo...