XiGMAKiD

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  XiGMAKiD

• Monday at 6:16 PM

"Overall the (X)Wayland-based experience was great on Ubuntu 21.10 for both KDE Plasma and GNOME Shell."
Gaming on Wayland vs X.Org, young vs mature, the choice is yours ;-)

Spoiler: source

Ubuntu 21.10 Radeon Gaming With KDE Plasma vs. GNOME Shell + Wayland vs. X.Org - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Saturday at 6:36 PM

Running EndeavourOS now, looks like it's gonna be my base for future install

http://imgur.com/a/guu5vne

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  XiGMAKiD

• Thursday at 11:52 AM

Happy birthday KDE a.k.a Koolest Desktop Ever

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  XiGMAKiD

• Thursday at 11:12 AM

Me: Mom I want numa numa song
Mom: We have numa numa song at home
Numa numa song at home:

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  XiGMAKiD

• Oct 13, 2021

"Red Hat already employs numerous open-source graphics driver developers... has now put out a call to hire yet another experienced Linux GPU driver developer."
Another GPU related news this time from Red Hat, something big is happening in linux space

Spoiler: source

Red Hat Is Hiring Another Linux Developer To Work On GPU Hardware Enablement - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Oct 10, 2021

"Notable with Flatpak 1.12 is better control around sub-sandboxes which most notably is being used by the Steam Flatpak."
I've never used Flatpak before but it seems neat.

Spoiler: source

Flatpak 1.12 Released - Better Sub-Sandbox Handling To Benefit Steam - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Oct 7, 2021

"FWUPD 1.7 brings additions like handling for Logitech devices... support for creating Redfish user accounts... support including more Synaptics CAPE devices, Elan fingerprint readers,.."
More firmware support released especially for Logitech

Spoiler: source

FWUPD 1.7 Released With Supporting More Hardware For Firmware Updates On Linux - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Oct 6, 2021

"Now for Linux 5.16 is a significant amount of new driver code for actually getting the display support into shape for both DG2 and ADL-P."
Looks like Intel is making some progress on it's soon-to-be-released GPUs

Spoiler: source

Linux 5.16 Preps More Display Code For Alder Lake P & DG2/Alchemist - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Oct 4, 2021

Successfully compiled and installed my first custom Arch linux kernel using linux-tkg from Frogging-Family

http://imgur.com/a/3JXeUuj

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  XiGMAKiD

• Oct 1, 2021

"Proton was previously working for DLSS Vulkan titles while now DLSS for D3D12 games should be working..."
Nvidia has joined the game

Spoiler: source

Proton Experimental Enables NVIDIA DLSS For D3D12 Games, Proton Now Handles More Games - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 28, 2021

"Google Chrome largely outperforming Firefox still by significant margins on Linux in these particular benchmarks...while the Mozilla browser does compete well for WebAssembly workloads and HTML5 canvas performance."
Not sure if browser benchmark is still a thing but there you go

Spoiler: source

Firefox 92 vs. Chrome 94 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 24, 2021

"While many Linux distributions offer [security features], many of the technologies aren't being used to their best potential..."
Hopefully my distro of choice is good, btw I use Arch

Spoiler: source

Lennart: Linux Comes Up Short Around Disk Encryption, Authenticated Boot Security - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux

Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering

0pointer.net

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 23, 2021

"...it's possible there could be some quirks and other issues to deal with given AMD hasn't been supporting ACPI CPPC usage on Linux..."
Hopefully that'll change, fingers crossed

Spoiler: source

An Early Look At The AMD P-State CPPC Driver Performance vs. ACPI CPUFreq - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 20, 2021

"...long story short as is well known ACPI CPUFreq is less than ideal and AMD P-State is being worked on to improve the situation for newer AMD CPUs..."
Looks like Steam Deck is getting good support from AMD

Spoiler: source

AMD + Valve Focusing On P-State / CPPC Driver With Schedutil For Better Linux Efficiency - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 17, 2021

Trying Arch Linux with jwm, lightweight customizable window manager but needs to be customized very carefully otherwise you'll get bamboozled h a r d

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 15, 2021

"Unfortunately for those exclusively using Linux, there isn't much in the way of public vBIOS software updates. ...hopefully for Linux users there will be an easier way for applying NVIDIA vBIOS updates moving forward."
Nvidia must nudge AIB partner to support their linux users.

Spoiler: source

NVIDIA RTX 30 Series Resizable BAR Support Continues Helping Performance On Linux - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 13, 2021

"...lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz at Valve has been spending time this month working to get more games running on this OpenGL-over-Vulkan Mesa driver."
*Hats off to him*

Spoiler: source

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Tackling Support For More Games - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 11, 2021

Youtube limits offline video to 360p now hiding previously available 720p behind paywall, what year is it 2001? smh

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 9, 2021

"AMD's exposed feature set for "perf" on Linux has traditionally been lacking compared to Intel and the exposed performance counters, but it's great that in recent times there has been catching up."
Slow and steady wins the race, though less slow and more speed would be better

Spoiler: source

AMD Branch Sampling Support Being Worked On For Linux - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 8, 2021

"Vulkanised 2021 will take place 13 and 14 October..."
For the graphically-inclined or just curious-minded people, mark your calendar

Spoiler: source

The Khronos Group Is Hosting A Virtual Vulkan Event Next Month - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 5, 2021

"AMD and Valve have been working to improve the performance/power efficiency for modern AMD platforms running on Steam Play..."
Fingers crossed

Spoiler: source

AMD + Valve Working On New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Sep 1, 2021

"If taking the geometric mean of all the benchmarks... the Linux distributions all performed measurably faster overall than Windows 10 or 11."
There aren't many reason to not run linux unless you're trapped with Windows with no way out, btw I use arch

Spoiler: source

Arch Linux, Clear Linux & Ubuntu Against Windows 10/11 On Intel Rocket Lake - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Aug 28, 2021

"Those postings also noted "a new organization" being built at AMD around Linux on the client side."
Sounds like AMD is preparing something big to happen in the future for Linux

Spoiler: Source

A Prominent, Longtime Dell Linux Engineer Recently Joined AMD's Linux Team - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

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  XiGMAKiD

• Aug 27, 2021

Belated happy 30th birthday to Linux, here's for the future

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  XiGMAKiD

• Aug 25, 2021

Enjoying this sonic pleasure using my Virtualbox'd Arch linux