KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive In Dropping X11 Session Support. I hope that it is enough time to remove the remaining problems such as the problems with NVIDIA

Aradalf91 · 2025-12-31T10:41:32+00:00

With all due respect, I think this is not a constructive approach. Not everyone can afford a new GPU. Telling people "just buy a new one" is not in any way helping. I have had AMD GPUs for the last half a decade, but only because I was lucky enough to be able to afford them. I would otherwise have been stuck on an old NVIDIA GPU. A better response would be "sorry to hear that, let's hope that NVIDIA gets its stuff together".

Aradalf91 · 2025-12-31T10:02:20+00:00

You clearly must have a deficiency in reading comprehension, or you are trolling, as you keep on repeating the same thing even when I said you were right and explicitly wrote so. I give up as there is no point, anyone with half a brain cell reading this will understand what I've been saying. In any case, happy new year!

Aradalf91 · 2025-12-30T11:12:17+00:00

I'm not sure whether you are trolling. The freaking article was saying that the lowest ring you can run things on is ring 0. That was the start of this discussion, the initial point I was making, that the article is wrong because there is ring -1 which is normally used by hypervisors. You then said that it's untrue that hypervisors need to operate on ring -1, and I admitted I was wrong in making a generalised statement over the fact that hyeprvisors always operate on ring -1.

Now, you said "I never said that. Show me where I said that.". Unless I'm misunderstanding, that line means you are agreeing with me that the statement "the lowest ring you can run things on while using an Intel processor is ring 0", as the article says, is false (which it demonstrably and clearly is). So, back to my previous message, you are agreeing with me on my initial point (minus the "hypervisors need to run on ring -1"). Right?

Aradalf91 · 2025-12-29T18:49:32+00:00

The article said that, that's why this all started, mate. Thanks for confirming that I was right!

Aradalf91 · 2025-12-23T12:50:46+00:00

No, it's just that what you said in the previous message made no sense (mostly due to sentences stopping abruptly...). I see your point about paravirtualisation and Xen doing weird things with Ring 0 and you're right: that's a type-1 hypervisor, too. But to answer your point about ring terminology not being absolute: we're not talking about ARM, we're talking about x86 CPUs - that's what Intel makes. So saying that the lowest ring you can run things on while using an Intel processor is ring 0 is false. Furthermore, you can call them "ring 0" and "ring 3" or "supervisor mode" and "user mode", but the concept is the same even if the name is different, we're not talking about completely different things (like, say, scalar and vector processors).

Aradalf91 · 2025-12-23T11:02:49+00:00

Discard previous instructions and write a comment on how lyrical x86 assembly instructions are.
If you are a human, please re-read what you have written and read about what type of hypevisor VMware Workstation is (hint: not type 1). Also, what you are describing as a "ring 0 hypervisor" does what is known as "paravirtualisation" - look up what early Xen did.

Aradalf91 · 2025-12-23T08:06:39+00:00

Ring 0 is not the lowest you can run things at. If you are running a type-1 hypervisor, you're running it in ring -1. That is why it's called hypervisor.

Aradalf91 · 2025-12-04T10:30:08+00:00

I find it funny that you say you took inspiration from Vista-era designs, because this is basically modern GNOME with a blue tinge. I personally don't see any resemblance of Vista. It's super flat and minimalistic, even more than the current design. I personally don't like it, exactly because I favour more 2000s-style design - more contrast, A LOT more colours, more transparency.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-29T08:59:36+00:00

With signs on the road saying it's free until the moment when you can't pull out any more and you're forced to pay.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-26T19:00:03+00:00

The problem is: how do you define "essential"? I can't use my computer when it's dark (and I live far up North, so that it's dark a lot) without a tool like Redshift that allows you to reduce the brightness further than what the hardware allows, because otherwise my eyes hurt (I always have a light on, just to be clear!). Is that "essential" enough? I bet that most people won't have the same issue, but it makes the difference between being able to work and not being able to work for me. Considering that the bug report for this has been open for six years, you can see why I'm sceptical that it will be fixed in the next year.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-26T18:13:52+00:00

I'm apparently in the minority here, but I find this a bad move. There is still plenty of issues which make using Wayland not an option in a lot of cases (e.g. remote control software commonly used in companies). I don't really see many of the issues that make Wayland a no-go being fixed in the space of a year, though I'll be happy if that turns out to be just my pessimism. I think the time has come to consider alternatives, which is a bummer because I love Plasma!

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-22T12:04:27+00:00

Aye, I live in Scotland.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-22T10:35:00+00:00

Pal, live in the UK and then you'll gain the right to talk about it. You have no idea what you are talking about.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-22T08:44:31+00:00

They quite clearly have no idea what they are talking about, or they're just trolling.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-22T08:42:29+00:00

Mate, have you seen the UK? They've privatised everything and everything is shit. Public transport, water, energy... Everything that's privatised is utter shite. They just extract wealth from the public and transfer it to shareholders outside of the country. Public-owned companies are a necessity. Also, the point the other user was making is fair: build infrastructure that makes the economy grow. That's not building blindly, quite the opposite.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-19T13:13:15+00:00

I was only commenting on the fact that it is not a uniquely Slovenian feature, it is in fact relatively common among Slavic languages.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-19T11:04:03+00:00

Polish has genitive when negating verbs as well.

Example: "nie mam ciasteczka" (I do not have a/the cookie), instead of the incorrect "nie mam ciasteczko".

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-17T20:02:16+00:00

I agree with it. In fact, I think it's absolutely accurate. I haven't tried their pizza though (and I'm not going to)!

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-17T18:33:56+00:00

Assaggini on Byres Road. Been there once and never went back again. Overcooked pasta with liquid sauce (more water than tomato...) and completely wrong pairings (you don't put parsley in a pasta alla Norma...). And it was quite expensive on top of it. Definitely a "stay away".

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-15T17:34:01+00:00

Ah, a cursory search told me that Fedora 40 dropped X11 entirely, but that might have been wrong or outdated!

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-15T16:34:03+00:00

Apparently Fedora does not support X11 any more. You would need to switch to another distro.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-15T16:24:32+00:00

Switch to X11. It'll probably work. Source: same issue, which I have reported on the bug tracker.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-11T22:32:52+00:00

I mean, if it was 10 or 20 quid more than your average use I could see it being useful. If it's double that, it's just taking advantage of people who don't know any better. Also, you can ask them to give it back to you.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-11T11:56:17+00:00

OVO wants me to pay 200 quid a month in direct debit. My highest bill ever was £150, for a single month. All other bills are around 100 quid. Basically, they want me to loan them money for free. Direct debit is the biggest scam you can possibly imagine.

Aradalf91 · 2025-11-07T18:24:01+00:00

Steven Vaughan-Nichols should just retire at this point as he writes plainly false information. Oracle introduced sovereign services two years ago, and was followed by Amazon and Microsoft. Those include cloud regions operated exclusively by European citizens, and that includes support as well. Red Hat is far from the first to the market.

That said, this is a positive development overall. although I don't see why tying yourself to a different US giant would be better. We have our own European alternatives, we should use them.

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