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Linux Mint teams up with Peppermint OS on a WebApp Manager
2 Nov 2020 at 4:02 pm UTC

Quoting: iiari
Quoting: PikoloThat's actually a project I contributed to, a few years back :grin:
If you were involved in ICE, then thank you, as I've already been using it for a while to put together WebApps.

Does anyone know what approach has the lowest memory overhead? Choosing Electron, vs Chrome, vs Firefox as the app wrapper?
I'd assume Firefox is still leanest on memory, or maybe GNOME Epiphany. While I wouldn't count on all websites working with Epiphany, I seem to remember it being leaner on memory... and features.

Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack is out now
2 Nov 2020 at 3:51 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: NeoTheFoxI really liked this extension so far!
Always wanted a Necron-esque additon to the universe, but what really upsets me is that the Necroids can't be a hivemind - that's really unfortunate, since playing as a parasite would be really cool.
Flavour wise, I agree. Mechanics wise, Driven Assimilators are the necroid hive mind

Linux Mint teams up with Peppermint OS on a WebApp Manager
7 Sep 2020 at 12:19 pm UTC

That's actually a project I contributed to, a few years back :grin:

PeppermintOS's main developer, Mark Greaves, passed away in 2019 and I stopped using the distro, so I've not heard back recently.

Ubuntu needs feedback on some possible major WiFi changes
13 Aug 2020 at 9:36 am UTC Likes: 2

wpa_supplicant works with EAP, at least for eduroam(the worldwide federated university WiFi network). At least when used through network manager, unless Ubuntu has something hardwired to take care of that edge case

No 10nm-based Intel CPUs for desktop users until 2021, 7nm-based CPUs delayed
24 Jul 2020 at 10:44 am UTC

AMD needs a year of leadership to improve their own financial situation. Right now Intel's cash reserves are similar to AMD's yearly profits. And it looks like they will get at least a year, more if they can get APUs to be chiplet based and USB4 support in their motherboards.

NVIDIA released a big new mainline Linux Beta Driver 450.51
24 Jun 2020 at 3:39 pm UTC Likes: 1

Even PRIME support was expanded to allow PRIME Synchronization when using displays driven by the x86-video-amdgpu driver as PRIME display offload sinks
So they noticed more and more laptops sold with AMD APU and Nvidia dGPUs. Good.

support for displays connected to NVIDIA GPUs to act as PRIME display offload sinks, also known as "Reverse PRIME"
Does that mean Reverse Prime in On-Demand mode? As in HDMI ports will now work in On Demand mode and not require a restart? That would be amazing!

The Plasma 5.19 desktop from KDE has released
9 Jun 2020 at 5:02 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: mylkai wish they would improve the system monitor
more information like the win10 task manager
Plasma's Task manager(KSysGuard) is very flexible. You can add your own graphs and tables based on sensors with simple drag and dropping - I have an extra page for fan speeds and temperatures

According to NetMarketShare during April we saw a big bump in Linux use - Ubuntu gains big
6 May 2020 at 2:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

One factor could be people trying to install Zoom/Teams/whatever on Windows XP/Vista/Unpatched 7 and finding they have to replace it with something newer for their video conferencing tool to work. Ubuntu is the default for those users.

NetMarketShare's statistics don't support that though: Vista was flat, XP grew, Windows 7 lost 0.5%, Windows 8 lost 0.1%, Windows 8.1 lost 0.5% Windows 10 lost 1%.

According to NetMarketShare during April we saw a big bump in Linux use - Ubuntu gains big
6 May 2020 at 11:22 am UTC Likes: 2

That's really good news! MacOS also rose by 1%, while Windows fell from 89% to 87%, showing a part of the degree to which corporate usage inflates it.

Unreal Engine 4.25 is up with tons of Linux improvements and Vulkan API fixes
5 May 2020 at 8:56 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: elmapulis that the SteamOS logo or steam logo? because i dont see the logo for other stores, including their own store, so why its there mixed with a lot of platform logos...
The Visual Studio logo doesn't make that much sense either tbh...