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  • There is an issue, though: Intel disabled AVX-512 for its Core 12th, 13th, and 14th Generations of Core processors, leaving owners of these CPUs without them. On the other hand, AMD’s Ryzen 9000-series CPUs feature a fully-enabled AVX-512 FPU so the owners of these processors can take advantage of the FFmpeg achievement.

    Intel can’t stop the L.

    As for the claims and benchmarking, we need to see how much it actually improves. Because the 94x performance boost is compared to baseline when no AVX or SIMD is used (if I understand the blog post correctly). So I wonder how much the handwritten AVX-512 assembler code improves over an AVX-512 code written in C (or Rust maybe?). The exact hardware used to benchmark this is not disclosed either, unfortunately.


  • I have RX 7600 on EndeavourOS. The installation is 2 years old or so, so I don’t remember everything. Normally for gaming you don’t need any extra packages, because Mesa (which contains the Open Source AMD GPU drivers) is in the Kernel. Usually that’s all you need for gaming. However I do have installed some vulkan related packages. The package info says this is required by steam, so you might have it already. yay -Qi vulkan-radeon to see your information about the current installed package (which tells me what installed package requires it) or lookup from repository with yay -Si vulkan-radeon. You can read more here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU


  • But then the government is dependent on this private company again. The idea of an own operating system distribution is, to have the control and not being dependent (as far as a company goes). So its not odd at all. In fact, I am shocked that most governments in the world don’t have their own distribution. It just makes sense.

    That also means a specific distribution to learn and count on across all governmental institution across all parts. They can integrate any feature, application and configure it for the EU in a government. Is there such a distribution that exists doing exactly that? Probably not. And creating a distribution does not mean they develop everything from scratch, so its not like impossible to workout.

    If private companies like Steam can do it, then a government should be able too.


  • Edit: My bad English. I tried to rephrase this reply.

    But the blog post is 2 years old and not part of the application. Since then new users started using the app. Most people don’t read blog posts, if nothing big changes. Was there never a popup message, in example after a regular update, to inform about upcoming huge changes? So that people do not get surprised. The app description should have this information very clear and prominently on the top. No current user should be in a position that the app changes like this.









  • Not all new users should be treated the same. There are technical new users and those who don’t care the technical details or updates. Arch based distributions are good for new users too, especially if we are talking about gaming. WE shouldn’t treat every new users like it they are the dumbest people on earth (generally speaking). Instead these blind recommendations, we should talk with the new users what type of user they are, what they want and what they are willing to do. We should utilize the strength of Linux instead just recommending the same distribution all again.

    /rant over


  • Are you sure we are talking about the same thing. I’m not talking about an universal Bluetooth adapter? The official Wireless Adapter from Microsoft uses a proprietary driver. Xpadneo supports only Bluetooth (as stated in the Github, unless I misunderstand something). To use the official Microsoft dongle xone is needed. The Xbox One S controller supports both, Bluetooth and Proprietary drivers.




  • Short: xone driver fork

    Long:

    I use Xbox controllers for years on Linux. And my current one is Xbox One S controller with the official Microsoft dongle (not Bluetooth, but the proprietary connection). Linux does not support this driver, but there is a community driver: https://github.com/medusalix/xone And for whatever reason the newest Linux Kernel 6.11 and upwards broke this driver. That means this driver does not work on Linux Kernel 6.11 or newer, until it is patched. And I believe Fedora 41 ships with 6.11. But wait! There is an alternative fork that fixed the driver: https://github.com/dlundqvist/xone You only need to install this one.

    Why is it that complicated in Linux? That’s because the Microsoft driver and dongle are proprietary and do not provide an official driver for Linux. Look it this way instead being complicated: It still works, because of the awesome community! Some people prefer using the Bluetooth connection. I personally don’t like Bluetooth in general for any device. So cannot assist with that.

    EDIT: Alternative way with xpadneo. Apparently this works too with the official wireless dongle from Microsoft: https://beehaw.org/comment/4056781 The installation might be more involved.





  • I don’t like Snap too, but it has some advantages over Flatpak. And unfortunately the most popular distribution still uses Snap. In example it is easier to create Snap packages and Flatpak does not support CLI only applicatoins ( Edit: my bad ) , but Snap does (something like grep in example). Also some may like it more that Snap relies on AppArmor instead using the custom solution of Flatpak.

    All in all, its not like black and white which is better. I still wish only one of the formats would exist, because this is not the kind of fragmentation I wish to have. But both exist and the end user should decide which of them to kill.