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Looking Glass said:
Interesting - the way it works under wayland its very binary. I assume the X server uses a different mechanism entirely if its "doesn't tear, most of the time". As far as I'm aware, tearing can occur as an application flips its display buffer into the display server, or the display server flips it into the gpu during a draw. Maybe tearfree prevents one of those but not the other?
Using a compositor or not might affect it as well, as without a compositor I'm fairly sure you draw directly into the frontbuffer.
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They explain some of this in the xorg man pages. Or at least the xorg.conf ones I want to say. To give at least a summary of what tearfree does
Looking Glass said:
I'm interested in this as well because its a deceptively complex undertaking. Hopefully it will be more fine grained than simply separating windows into groups that can't talk to each other.
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Yeah, I imagine it's not going to be a simple thing, which is why the xorg maintainers never bothered even trying, (from what I can tell). I'm interested to see what they end up doing with it.
DavidS877 said:
Something originally designed to run on systems with 4MB of RAM
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At least modern day xorg pretty consistently runs on 100mb ram or a little higher for the xorg server alone.
YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
- Took about 10 hours to compile a basic KDE environment (plasma-meta + dolphin/konsole) with all its dependencies, along with a few basic terminal programs like vim but those take negligible time to compile compared to KDE.
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That's why i just use a window manager on gentoo, and simpler tools without a list of 200 dependencies. Not saying everyone should do that. But it keeps things simple. And things are rock solid. Also with the benefit of updates not being too bad. Though I still have to deal with llvm and gcc of course.

Speaking of which looks like llvm has an update now actually.
HalHalliday said:
I tried Manjaro instead of Arch specifically to avoid doing everything by hand
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That was the exact opposite of my experience when I ran freebsd. Absolutely everything I wanted to use took way more setting up by hand, than any linux distro I have ever tried. Maybe I'm just unlucky, and all the software I want to use, and my hardware doesn't work well with freebsd.
 
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Cross posting from the OSS thread:

Ferryman said:
Sorry to detract from the ped ribbing (and I know this discussion might be a better fit for the Linux thread, but still);

Vaclav said:
AntiX acts the way you would expect someone to if they're trying to build an anarchist tech infrastructure to resist capitalism.
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That is exactly how they come across. Anticapitalista, their head dev and admin, does tow the typical fagass line of "muh no raycism and biguts allowed on muh forum", but that's pretty much everything these days. Still far, far afield from a full CoC. I am torn between them, PCLinuxOS and Artix as my new main OS. AntiX and PCLOS are the two biggest 100% sysd-free distros out there, everything else is pretty much just one man projects with esoteric management systems like Obarun or Joborun. Artix is chud anti sysd software but theys still use elogind and dbus. I'm going to have to compromise on something either way, either on the software or political end. Such is life, I suppose. On that note, any PCLOS fags here that can spare some thoughts?
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It is a damn shame so many people still wind up trying Majaro over EndeavorOS, the far more noob friendly version of Arch. I can can spin up an install within about 20 minutes on my machine with little to no ass pain. it even has a GUI button to click to bring up the terminal and run updates through YAY!
 
Ferryman said:
Cross posting from the OSS thread:
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I haven't thought about PCLinuxOS in a while so I went to have a look.
fire.webp

That's not how I remember it. I've also assumed that the distro guys mean fire in a teehee oopsie woopsie everything's on fire modern soy nerd way. No, actual fire.
rip.webp

I hope they get everything back in order.
 
I posted this to the Open Source thread but it's also relevant here since it affects nearly all Linux distros. A major security flaw was found in Git allowing for arbitrary remote code execution (RCE):

WhiteNight

Post in thread 'Open Source Software Community'

A major security flaw in Git just dropped. Arbitrary code can be run on your machine when you clone a repo.

Minimal example illustrating it is here:

Distros are scrambling to get ahead of this, or at least not too far behind it.

ETA:
Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44502330
Debian bug (severity grave): https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1108983
Homebrew PR: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/229423 (merged already)
NixOS PR...
Reactions:Informative x 28 Like x 1 Horrifying x 3
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YisGpdPjYM8
Appearantly somone has been trying to ddos down gnus site for a while.

That's not the main topic of the video it seems but that's the thing in this that interested me. Well that and then bashing trannyware.
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FSF is right, Anubis is malware because tranime. Anyone who believes in free software should take to the streets and bathe in the blood of the Anubis community.
 
volatile puar said:
It is https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
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Anime girls with animal ears is not furfaggotry.
a dun gae i
And also, Anubis is a guy, so unless you don't want to be using a buff jackal guy as your logo, you best come up with a better name.
YoRHa No. 2 Type B said:
Glad to hear you are enjoying it.
After a while of using Linux, you will have to choose your path.
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Which way, femboy or schizo? Choose wisely.
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...why is the troon path depicted as the good choice?
 
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