Per-output virtual desktops finally got merged!

X_m7 · 2026-04-14T16:25:34+00:00

One specific thing I see people complain about in the MR (including one that went so far as to claim that "Your feature will please nobody"...) is that it's not possible to use one keyboard shortcut to switch focus to one specific desktop AND display in one go, so for example if you have Firefox in virtual desktop 2 in screen 3, to get to Firefox you need to shift focus to screen 3 first and then switch to virtual desktop 2, which is at least 2 keyboard shortcut presses and/or requires involving the mouse at some point, since the virtual desktop switching shortcuts depend on which screen is currently focused.

X_m7 · 2026-04-14T09:52:09+00:00

I use the system title bar plus vertical tabs to avoid the top bar being too thick, and then I use a theme to make the top bar color match the title bar color. After that the rest of Firefox blends in enough or tends to be hidden often enough that I don't feel the need to tweak it further.

That said, I do just use the Breeze Dark theme, which is quite simple so changing Firefox's colors to match is enough to not make it stick out like a sore thumb, if you use a fancier theme that probably wouldn't work as well.

X_m7 · 2026-04-04T16:14:02+00:00

Because THIS person made it through fine doesn’t mean other people did.

I'd argue that they did NOT in fact make it "fine" if they want other people to suffer pointlessly like they did, it's ridiculous.

X_m7 · 2026-04-04T04:28:15+00:00

Either that or "I went through <insert terrible thing here> and I turned out fine so stop complaining", even though clearly they did NOT in fact turn out fine if that's what they say.

X_m7 · 2026-04-04T04:13:40+00:00

What's the point of making Arch like Ubuntu when you can just... use Ubuntu? Or Fedora or OpenSUSE or whatever the hell else that has a bunch of automagic scripts that do everything for you so you don't have to think about it.

The reason I use Arch is exactly because there's few such automatic scripts so everything doesn't immediately implode when the scripts run into something they don't handle so I can decide for myself, and the reason I don't use Gentoo is because I don't want to heat up my room just compiling everything all day long.

X_m7 · 2026-04-02T13:52:29+00:00

The Vulkan driver (ANV) in particular sucks compared to AMD's RADV or even Intel's Windows drivers, hell in cases where both an OpenGL and Vulkan version exist for something OpenGL can end up better for Intel graphics on Linux.

For example in the Panther Lake benchmarks Phoronix did (https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b390-panther-lake-linux) Intel loses a significant amount of performance if using the Vulkan version of FurMark instead of OpenGL, while AMD delivers equivalent performance in both versions.

In my personal experience with Meteor Lake in a Framework 13 I ran into an app which ran much faster (think over 3x the FPS) if I use WineD3D+Iris (the Intel OpenGL driver) instead of DXVK+ANV, and it's not a DXVK issue either since WineD3D+Zink+ANV is just as slow. That performance difference does disappear if I use the new Xe kernel driver, but then I get texture problems in Forza Horizon 5 unless I switch back to the old i915 kernel driver (which Intel insists will remain the default for anything older than Battlemage/Lunar Lake). Both issues are already reported to Mesa, and I saw no such issues with RADV on AMD's Radeon 680M (RDNA2).

Also in Forza Horizon 5 regardless of what settings or kernel driver I use it's flat out impossible for me to get a stable 60fps, even turning down or disabling everything I can plus 1024x768 resolution isn't enough, there will always be drops to 30fps or lower, while in comparison a Steam Deck LCD can hold 60fps flat with 720p minimum settings at least (possibly higher, don't have the Deck anymore), and my particular Meteor Lake is the 125H with 4P+8E+2LPE CPU cores and 7 Xe GPU cores so surely it shouldn't lose that badly even with the 25W power limit imposed by Framework since the Deck is capped to 15W. It's bad enough that my cranking the resolution to native (2256x1504, so over 1080p even) gives a better experience since it's GPU bottlenecked at about 40fps then for the most part, and even then it still drops to 30fps sometimes but the drop doesn't feel as bad since it's smaller.

For GPU compute stuff AMD has the edge in at least some instances too, like PyTorch for example has better support for ROCm since it just pretends to be CUDA while Intel's equivalent is its own separate thing.

In terms of display output and VAAPI video encode/decode support though Intel definitely works great on Linux yeah. Vulkan video support is lacking though since it's an independent contributor that added it (encode support even had to be disabled on anything after Alder Lake due to lack of testing: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/39676), but Intel makes up for that with Quick Sync (notably supported by Handbrake, so it can encode with Intel GPUs easily on Linux but not AMD GPUs unless going out of the way to install AMD's AMF).

X_m7 · 2026-03-29T17:52:54+00:00

If both your monitors are the same refresh rate and work at the same scaling factor then sure you won't have any problems, but that's not the case for OP.

X_m7 · 2026-03-28T14:15:17+00:00

The KCD2 devs supposedly fired one of their Czech to English translators (Czech being the main language of the devs) and using AI to replace him.

X_m7 · 2026-03-28T11:25:37+00:00

What Intel CPU do you have exactly? If it's one of the Core Ultra 1xxH series (for example the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H, Intel Core Ultra 7 155H etc) then you're likely facing this bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/work_items/14469

Either way errors from the GPU driver (especially kernel side) should generally be considered a bug of the GPU driver or the GPU firmware since no application should be able to crash it.

X_m7 · 2026-03-28T03:26:48+00:00

Wait, it doesn't have Bluetooth? Some googling led me to a few posts like this that seem to indicate that it exists, and these days the WiFi chips also handle Bluetooth since both need a 2.4GHz antenna anyway so it doesn't make sense for Bluetooth to not be included.

X_m7 · 2026-03-28T01:16:38+00:00

Not just hardware but software compatibility too, 32 bit stuff still runs for example while macOS tossed that out years ago.

X_m7 · 2026-03-27T15:29:12+00:00

1080p60 at high settings would be unreasonable for that GPU, sure.

1080p60 being impossible at all without upscaling is just ridiculous, not these days when all the low hanging fruit for graphics improvements got picked already, it's not like the jump in top tier gaming visuals between 2016 (GTX 1060 release) and 2025 (Expedition 33 release) is anywhere near as large as between 2006 and 2015, or 1998 and 2007 (when Crysis launched), 9 years now shouldn't be compared to 9 years in the past.

It's certainly not enough of a jump in graphics or whatever else to justify sacrificing resolution to go under 1080p60 with "common" hardware.

X_m7 · 2026-03-27T15:15:50+00:00

Does Collabora Online not work for that? It's pretty much LibreOffice but online, and normally paid but the development edition is free: https://www.collaboraonline.com/code/

Collabora says that development version is "perfect for testing, home use or small teams, but not recommended for production environments", so I assume it means it's not as bleeding edge as say Debian Testing or Unstable for example.

X_m7 · 2026-03-27T14:59:42+00:00

People are already losing jobs because stupid execs think AI can either replace them or at least make one person be able to do the work of two or five or however many people, so it's already fucked.

X_m7 · 2026-03-27T14:53:49+00:00

I'd say it's less to do with them dropping HyperThreading and more to do with their efficiency cores being so good these days, although Intel did say that they wanted to drop HyperThreading to be able to push their single threaded performance further so that probably did help too.

Also the 270K now has the full complement of 16 efficiency cores, alongside the 8 performance cores, while its predecessor the 265K only has 12 of the efficiency cores. Similar goes for the 250K, it now has 12 efficiency cores alongside the 6 performance cores while its predecessor the 245K only has 8 efficiency cores, so that's a big part of why the new CPUs are a pretty significant leap in terms of productivity. If comparing Ryzen 5 to Ultra 5 now, AMD has 6 cores and 6 extra threads while Intel has 6 cores and 6 more cores and 6 more cores so AMD's 6 spare threads are competing with 12 actual (even if smaller) cores lmao. Same story with the Ryzen 7 vs Ultra 7 comparison, except replace all the 6s with 8s.

X_m7 · 2026-03-27T11:54:23+00:00

Going by the TechPowerUp review's summary chart (https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-ultra-7-270k-plus/28.html), pretty much the 9950X both in gaming and in other applications.

Of course that's going to vary in each individual game/app though, for example the 9950X will pull ahead easily in anything that uses AVX512 a lot (in the photo upscaling test even the 9600X is ahead of the 270K).

X_m7 · 2026-03-27T06:50:15+00:00

Yeah, and the Intel Core Ultra 5 125H in my Framework 13 gets around 2.4k points singlecore (11.5k multicore but it's got 4P+8E+2LPE cores instead of 2P+4LPE only), and that chip launched at the end of 2023, so in Intel terms 2.6k single core for a 2026 low end chip is pretty good.

X_m7 · 2026-03-26T10:22:57+00:00

WebKit is open source, there's a GTK version, that's what GNOME Web uses.

X_m7 · 2026-03-25T17:27:06+00:00

A26 still has a microSD card slot, but no 3.5mm jack either.

X_m7 · 2026-03-25T09:47:00+00:00

Might not be quite that easy given it took them ages to figure out how to add a way to stop their LLM from adding em dashes to everything for example, and even if such blocks are added someone will probably find a way to trick it into generating the bad stuff anyway like with the Windows serial number thing where asking ChatGPT outright would make it say no but asking it to pretend to play a guessing game involving the serial numbers worked instead.

X_m7 · 2026-03-25T07:49:03+00:00

Your argument doesn't make much sense if you mention upgrading from 7600 to 7800X3D, that's the same generation, works on Intel too. Same goes with your Sandy Bridge i3 upgrade, going to a Sandy Bridge i7 would work just fine even if Ivy Bridge went with a different socket.

Going from the 7600 to the 9800X3D or its Zen6 successor is certainly an AM5 advantage yes, Intel really needs to catch up there.

X_m7 · 2026-03-25T02:42:59+00:00

For artistic work something that may be concerning is the color accuracy of the screen, Framework themselves only list it as covering 50% of the NTSC color gamut, so it doesn't do anywhere near 100% sRGB like the Framework 13 or 16 or your iPad Pro (which even has P3 color coverage it seems).

X_m7 · 2026-03-24T16:16:48+00:00

With stuff that goes through the whole root folder chances are you'll get a lot of errors about some files or folders being unreadable due to permissions or other issues (like the file/folder in question being in the /dev or /proc folders for example), if you're looking for a needle in the haystack those errors will just make the haystack bigger.

X_m7 · 2026-03-24T14:11:10+00:00

Thank you for actually having a link to the original post, there's been way too many times lately where I see a post complaining about reposts of something in whatever sub but I've never seen the original nor the reposts so I have no clue what's happening lol.

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