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dreamer_

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    Comment #29938711

    same here (Poland)

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    Comment #26492740

    No, because root has already an established, clear meaning in Unix world.

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    Comment #26492683

    It's not an indirect reference. Word "master" in BitKeeper was used for context where word "origin" is used in Git.

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    Comment #25252122

    It is an issue if I need to rewrite my scripts specifically for macOS and they are no longer cross-platform. Yeah, you can alias all utilities called g to , but you can't reasonabl…

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    Comment #24921624

    AFAIK Gnome and KDE already have EGLStreams support in place, but it does not work for XWayland because incompatibilities in NVIDIA-maintained libraries.

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    Comment #24921549

    From a fellow maintainer of open source software (currently not being paid for the work at all) - I agree 100%. Users are always demanding things: new features (which sometimes are…

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    Comment #23092343

    A quick summary of new features: - Upgrade to SDL 2.0 - Support FLAC, Opus, Vorbis, and MP3 CD-DA tracks - Pixel-perfect scaling mode - AUTOTYPE command - Changed rendering default…

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    Comment #20599146

    Features: - Lower input lag (compared to DOSBox inside Proton) - Steam features working as expected (e.g. Steam Cloud, Controller settings or recording of time played) - Better ful…

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    Comment #17363512

    For me, it works perfectly on both FF and Chrome (Linux), but I wonder how WebRender will deal with it; can you test Firefox Nightly with "gfx.webrender.all" set to true?

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    Comment #17363335

    Work on WebRender started before Vulkan API was widely available (even now there are lots of users, that can't use it) and right now they focus on integrating it in Firefox. Vulkan…

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    Comment #17187608

    Gnome also works like that

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    Comment #8789505

    I hate the feeling of falling behind in a language that really has no competition in the niche it fills. Well, that's no longer true - Rust and Go are two contenders for C++'s "nic…