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I read through Martin's previous post a bit and it seems to me that the problem is more that some distributions of the KDE desktop don't work well on some hardware, and a certain...

So is Will or another dev reading this?

A less confusing system settings could be useful to many people. I mostly find stuff via the search box. Just lump all settings you don't think belong in...

I used TI calculators loads in school (easy to learn to program and lots of useful statistics and graphing stuff integrated).

More to the point though, why would anyone want to put Linux on one...

That's what I'm wondering. I guess it's nothing specific to linux — how is such a device best used? Wait and see..

Why bother with the subtraction? It doesn't really make the graphs any easier to read. In fact, why not put the result (fenrus's score/best other score) on a log scale? Then some of the results with...

Intriguing. But since Debian packages often include custom patches, surely "automated packaging" can't be as good (unless it basically pulls all of these from Debian)?

What do the "deltas" mean in...

BTRFS is sometimes slower on an SSD than an HDD? Does that make sense?

So they're just going to immitate Debian's stable releases every two years with "testing" in between? Because rolling releases could easily mean lots of updates and frequent breakages. Think I'd...

You shouldn't imply that Ubuntu users are retarded... In any case, Ubuntu desktop (i.e. Unity) has had a lot of bad press, but Ubuntu as a distribution (which is I assume what's being reported here,...

Looks like 64-bit is the standard by now. Can we not just forget about 32-bit for AMD/Intel (finally)?

Would be nice to see those numbers divided by 2.5% (i.e. scaled to just talk about Linux...

You like advertising these, don't you?

So, closer to Debian's release cycle and more server oriented than end user?

The best "rolling release" strategy I've seen is Chakra's: keep core packages (kernel, libc, etc.) relatively stable...

But it's worse in GtkPerf?

Possibly, but that's still a little way off. Currently I have both NVIDIA and AMD graphics driver blobs installed (one installation, runs on two different machines), so call me short-sighted, but if...

Mostly agree with you, but don't go overboard on blobs. If you have the right hardware or just don't need support for certain features you can use Linux without blobs. If Hurd or whatever else wants...

So the real reason to be excited about EKOPath is automatic GPGPU usage? I am involved in some "scientific computing" but so far haven't had a reason to use anything other than GCC and clang.

For what it's worth, in the past I would have had to have agreed with Michael, at least that Calc wasn't as good as Excel.

Anyway, from the sounds of it there might soon be three good native...

Plus much more, like making sure Alt+Tab and media keys still work inside games with a keyboard grab. It's a long list...

glxgears isn't a particularly useful benchmark. Rexilion, certainly don't interpret that to mean "Ubuntu and Cinnamon 2D will perform far slower than other desktops in demanding games."

There were two things I got from those benchmarks: 1) light-weight desktops are in general slightly faster than heavyweights (but usually not more than about 20% which implies for casual games it may...