ms.lane

That’s just redecorating an outburst though?

Plasma/KDE as a first class citizen.

KDE is second-class to GNOME on Fedora.

They should use this technology we used purely for uh… "Linux ISOs’ back is the day.

BitTorrent.

You’ve mentioned in the thread you’ve on Debian 12 - have you installed mesa from backports?

The version of mesa on 12 is is 22.3.6 which is before the release of the 7900GRE and only very early RDNA3 support.

bookworm-backports has 25.0.7

If you read through https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ you can enable the backports repo then just reinstall mesa (or dist-upgrade)

Broadcom has always been a kernel black hole.

So many routers stuck on Linux 2.6 or 3.4 due to Broadcom.

eh, when I suggested Ukraine start targeting Moscow they just outright banned me.

So no GNOME on BSD anymore?

If you want GNOME you need a corporate aligned linux-only desktop with all the IBM trimmings? IBM who has been known forever for the poor quality of their code? IBM who pays by the KLOC?

Really only depends on how new the new GPU is vs. how old the Kernel is.

example: If you’re running Debian Stable and trying to put in an RTX 5090, you’ll likely have a bad time, since neither the kernel nor Mesa support blackwell on Trixie without backporting.

• If you’re using a rolling release distro, just update first but you’ll probably be fine already. If you’re using a point release distro, make sure that release supports your hardware first.

• If you’re buying some older (but new to you) hardware, you’ll probably be fine.

• You’ll be fine with anything AMD or Intel even on debian stable, since they’re both active in developing their linux support, where nVidia doesn’t support FOSS drivers.

• If you’re buying nVidia that new/powerful, you’ll be better served by their proprietary drivers you can install - just keep in mind you won’t be able to run very recent (and certainly not bleeding edge) kernels with the proprietary nV drivers.

no concern for digital privacy.

Huge difference between Digital and Physical privacy though.

Someone wearing these glasses can be legally recording inside your home by simply looking at your home if the curtains are open.

Someone wearing these glasses can legally record you and you children at the beach.

A bad actor nurse/doctor wearing these glasses can legally save photos of you naked.

These glasses need to be banned, pronto.

The same as when Google tried it.

Privacy Invasion turned up to 11.

Mustek 1248UB

I remember buying one of those from ‘Electronics Boutique’ over 20 years ago. Before they nuked all the extra PC peripherals and renamed it ‘EB Games’

MM/YY/DDD (Ordinal date)

yyyy/mm/dd

YYYY-MM-DD

Standard is for dashes in ISO8601.

Yeah that one is less a ‘westernism’ and more a ‘1%er-ism’

I just wanted to distro name to be ‘Bastard’ :P

deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bastard main

It’s probably too soon after 25.10 for another Australian animal, so lets go-

28.04 Bastard Bandicoot.

Apple’s lawsuit with Apple Corps/The Beatles was lengthy.

Do you think Canonical have the cash and energy to fight that battle?

The problem is actually kwin-wayland, kwin5 on X11 was very frgual, where both kwin5 and kwin6 on Wayland eat vram for breakfast. Right now my desktop is using 4535MiB, the biggest user being plasmashell itself at 1120MiB

It’s not actually a wayland problem though and If I really wanted I’d of dropped back to X11 when I was still running plasma5 - but Wayland brings more solutions to the table than problems.

Linux on system RAM: I sip

Linux on VRAM post-Wayland: BIG GULPS

I used to be able to run a desktop on less than 1GB VRAM, now with 16GB it fills up starts misbehaving.

Not Arch, it’s 100% bog standard on Arch.

Which is great and what most people want, but the parent poster wants something pre-configured to be minimalist.