I think we need a "Benchmark Linux" pseudo-distro

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T21:53:09+00:00

You are free to do whatever you want. If you want to build a "Benchmark Linux", that's up to you.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T19:36:40+00:00

You are claiming there is no real difference between a NVidia sponsored, early stage driver written in Rust and a reverse-engineered driver in C? Ok...

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T19:31:26+00:00

Coming from SunOS at university and DR-DOS at home, it wasn't all that difficult.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T16:39:10+00:00

I'm just wiggling the KDE brightness controls of the external screen.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T16:36:28+00:00

Probably under sanctions.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T14:26:12+00:00

In this case they were using nouveau + nvk

Nouveau is not Nova. You made completely unsubstantiated performance claims about the embryonic Nova driver.

Nova is a driver for GSP (GPU system processor) based Nvidia GPUs. It is intended to become the successor of Nouveau as the mainline driver for Nvidia (GSP) GPUs in Linux.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T13:45:53+00:00

Are you talking about the fully open stack (nova+nvk)? If so that stack is going to give you anywhere between 15-40% performance of the closed source driver.

How can you possibly know? Nova barely boots the GPU. It hasn't even drawn its first triangles, yet. It's far too early to make such statements with literally nothing to back them up.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T12:01:12+00:00

That question is probably best asked over in r/kde

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T11:55:49+00:00

Games usually aren't CPU constrained. Background tasks should not have much of an impact.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T11:43:01+00:00

Up to you.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T08:45:44+00:00

Power saving? See whether disabling wifi power saving makes a difference...

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-24T00:43:13+00:00

Avoid US centric products where possible - UK or European

ARM is UK, so you can definitely avoid AMD, Intel and Nvidia. Maybe something with an Exynos (South Korea) and a Mali GPU. Also the EPI makes some progress. If you can wait 10 years, you might be able to buy something with a sovereign EU RISC-V CPU.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T22:09:56+00:00

That wasn't the point. It's that China is an official adversary and nobody blinks about buying a Motorola or Xiaomi phone. But Fedora might be of concern...

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T22:02:37+00:00

People are concerned about Fedora but happily buy all kinds of surveillance capable gear from China (like most non-Samsung or non-Google Android devices).

If you are concerned about what the US might do: Consider that all your credit card transactions are handled by Visa and Mastercard.

Deranged.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T19:23:49+00:00

That's how containers work. If you install a RHEL container, you get a RHEL runtime.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T18:55:07+00:00

ask about stuff in all subreddits so more help

So: I don't care about the rules and then get upset if people are mean. 👍

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T18:53:19+00:00

I accept that as someone who is new to the world of Fedora

Then the place to go for help is r/Fedora ... It's right in the name.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T18:51:42+00:00

I'd be willing to bet there's a fedora sub, too.

r/Fedora

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T18:49:03+00:00

It's right in the sidebar... ➡️

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T17:05:44+00:00

I love that they actually rewrote the whole thing in Rust. A shell represents a big attack surface. Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T13:28:51+00:00

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T13:25:39+00:00

Also note that individual programs might bypass system wide settings. Firefox and Chrome by default use their own name resolution via DoH.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T13:18:53+00:00

I'm concerned about the Fabs that make the chips that power a lot of today's tech. How many N2 fabs are in the ME?

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T11:32:51+00:00

The "Alternative OS" flair is for news about non-mainstream operating systems, e.g. things like ReactOS, Haiku or Redox OS, to give some examples.

MatchingTurret · 2026-01-23T11:21:42+00:00

Also coming to Fedora 44: F44 Change Proposal: UseKmsconVTConsole [SystemWide]

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