it’s a mini pc, standing sideways, with a USB to ethernet adapter and USB HDD

sounds like rseq has been around since 2018 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Restartable-Sequences-Speed

I’ll be curious to see benchmarks of PREEMPT_NONE vs rseq once PostgreSQL patches this

Which is expected to be faster in the end?

good to see some screenshots

Another drawback is that support for hardware peripherals is behind that of Windows, macOS, and even ChromeOS.

MacOS and ChromeOS? I doubt this, especially ChromeOS is using the Linux kernel, it should literally have all the same drivers

Maybe they mean for the device that it ships with?

Yeah but it’s harder when something else is incompatible, like WiFi on a laptop, or Ethernet on a desktop. Not so easy to update the kernel without internet. I wonder if it would be possible for the installer to include multiple versions of the kernel to choose from.

I think it might give you problems if you try to install it on brand new hardware though, because Mint uses an older kernel by default

Also use Lutris to easily test multiple distros

fun movie, and this should make a great demo disc for home theaters

lol this is why I think being able to disable downvotes from non-subscribers is a good idea

Kubuntu uses Discover instead of the Ubuntu App Center

It’s really easy to avoid Snaps

is this an Ubuntu problem that I’m too Kubuntu to understand?

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RIP Radeon 5000 series? maybe this game needs mesh shaders or some other DX12U feature?

Oh this does not look good lol, fully expecting it to make a billion dollars though

This is for LZ4, I guess most people use Zstd. Will be interesting to see if this becomes competitive now.