Posts by Aaronage

Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions

Sigh

Why the drama around Wayland? Why the drama about every single thing in the Linux desktop sphere?

I’ve been using Fedora Wayland without touching X for years at this point. I never even THINK about the display server anymore because it works and keeps out of the way.

GNOME on Wayland is smooth and responsive, my display config doesn’t freak out all the time and I don’t get random glitches and tearing. Not having to refresh myself on how to use shit like xrandr all the time is quite nice actually!

Inb4 an angry neckbeard chimes in to rinse me out with endless minutiae about technical this and that blah blah blah…

Run DeepSeek R1 on an Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio? Sure, it'll just cost you $9,499-plus

Re: Can it run Windows?

Feigning ignorance to signal an affection for Windows is weird, but you do you lol

Intel aims to reinvent itself as foundry focus sharpens amid leadership shake-up

On Lunar Lake “couldn't get good deal on memory”

Why though? The rest of the industry using on package memory isn’t whining.

The “lifestyle company” (Apple) has shipped 4 generations of PC SoCs with memory on package at this point. On package memory contributes to the industry leading performance and efficiency Apple enjoys.

Intel signalling they’ll abandon on package isn’t exactly a great look.

But hey, none of this matters because the competition is “in the rear view mirror” right?

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

Well I had an SBSA compliant server board and generic server images worked perfectly with it. I’m not feeling any peril for PC-BSA.

It will happen, the only people who want you to think it won’t happen are our x86 friends.

Arm isn’t more locked down. PC-BSA will solve that problem for PC just as SBSA solved it for server.

You will get generic images that boot everywhere eventually :-)

Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst

Re: Advanced

Intel’s fabs are so advanced that they… choose TSMC fabs over their own. D’oh!

Arm lays down the law with a blueprint to challenge x86's PC dominance

Re: The X86 architecture is horrible

Arm isn’t burdened with legacy guff. V8 was a clean start and all modern Arm cores have dropped the optional V7 compatibility.

RISC-V doesn’t have an edge here. If anything, it’s more likely to get messy over time as the ISA is open to customisation.

Overclocking to 5GHz? We put Intel Devil’s Canyon CPU to the test

Re: New cooling is great

5c is almost margin of error, you could've gained that 5c from a clean thermal paste application.

Android to drop Dalvik VM for high-performance ART in next version

I use ART...

... on my HTC One M8

I've had the phone with ART enabled for 3 months now and haven't had a single app crash.

Performance is great, but I don't know whether ART is making a difference on hardware this fast.

There is a noticeable improvement in app launch times with ART, though.

Users folder vanished after OS X 10.9.3 update? Here's a fix

Re: I find Apple hardware extremelly good...

It's a two second process to toggle online search off, hardly the greatest inconvenience of all time.

14.04 is solid - I'm using Xubuntu 14.04 at work and Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 at home, both have yet to throw a wobbly.

Thinking about it, I never had issues with 13.10, 13.04 or 12.10 either. Some of my hardware didn't work out of the box with those releases, but you can't blame Canonical for none-existent support in the kernel (some will try, I'm sure)

Nokia Lumia update spreads Black death

Don't bother with FGLRX, the radeon driver is so good these days there's no point.

If you're on linux kernel 3.11 or higher you're hood to go (just pass radeon.dpm=1 to the kernel on boot so power management works)

Google and Samsung bare teeth in battle for LANDFILL ANDROID™

Re: I think you underestimate MS benefits from this

That's some pretty funky logic.

Google Play/Services has always, and will always, run in the background on an Android device. It handles syncing, notifications etc. Killing it would be a bit silly.

Moving to another platform because you see this as a loss of control is just daft. You've moved from a platform that allowed you to strip back everything to one which strictly defines your use of the device.