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I know it's meant to be a hippopotamus, but the default desktop background just reminds me of a couple of hairy testicles. https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_au... Definitely changing that after install, I don't want to be greeted by a giant parcel of pubes when I log in.
I know it's meant to be a hippopotamus, but the default desktop background just reminds me of a couple of hairy testicles. https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_au... Definitely changing that after install, I don't want to be greeted by a giant parcel of pubes when I log in.
Do hippos even have notable amounts of hair? lmgtfm Unlike most other semiaquatic animals, hippos have very little hair. The skin is 6 cm (2 in) thick, providing it great protection against conspecifics and predators.
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So it sounds like folks with Nvidia cards should hold off on this version of Ubuntu?
No, you can always switch back to Xorg on the login screen (at the bottom right). Wayland support is getting really good these days, I'd recommend giving it a try before going back to Xorg if needed. This release is no different than any previous one for NVIDIA users
Years ago I remember dreading firing up XFree86 on a machine with only 4MB, opting to use svgalib apps instead. But I've been using XFree86/Xorg for two decades now. I like new technology (I love my Toyota hybrid, for example, even though it lacks a clutch pedal). What tangible benefit does Wayland offer me?
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No, you can always switch back to Xorg on the login screen (at the bottom right). Wayland support is getting really good these days, I'd recommend giving it a try before going back to Xorg if needed. This release is no different than any previous one for NVIDIA users
As a user, why would I want to switch to Wayland in the first place? Years ago I remember dreading firing up XFree86 on a machine with only 4MB, opting to use svgalib apps instead. But I've been using XFree86/Xorg for two decades now. I like new technology (I love my Toyota hybrid, for example, even though it lacks a clutch pedal). What tangible benefit does Wayland offer me?
- Reduced tearing
- Simpler architecture, better security
In theory, Wayland does provide few user-facing change (I think)
I know it's meant to be a hippopotamus, but the default desktop background just reminds me of a couple of hairy testicles. https://res.cloudinary.com/canonical/image/fetch/f_auto,q_au... Definitely changing that after install, I don't want to be greeted by a giant parcel of pubes when I log in.
I saw something different from the other gender, still hairy. Though now I can't stop seeing the testicles. How did this pass any UX testing?
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I fail to see how moving to a rolling release strategy results in any kind of "death", seems like FUD to me. Rolling release, trying to stick to upstream releases as closely as possible, works well with Arch Linux, I'm glad CentOS learned from Arch Linux success. DISCLAMER: I'm not even a CentOS user, but I just like what RH does and has done for "the Linux community" as you call it (I would just call it "society" bu…
Hey: Please read the answer to this comment first. It contains some very important clarifications . Leaving the comment up for completeness, context and admittance of error. Happy reading. --- Disclaimer: We use CentOS on almost all of our servers at production level for 10+ years. The main problem with CentOS is not moving into a rolling release schedule, but change of its place in the ecosystem. Before, CentOS was…
I think you just made a new malapropism by getting the "sole" in "sole successor" mixed up with the homophone "soul" and then relating it to "spiritual successor"
Both "sole successor" and "spiritual successor" are accurate descriptions in this case, so it works beautifully.
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Hey: Please read the answer to this comment first. It contains some very important clarifications . Leaving the comment up for completeness, context and admittance of error. Happy reading. --- Disclaimer: We use CentOS on almost all of our servers at production level for 10+ years. The main problem with CentOS is not moving into a rolling release schedule, but change of its place in the ecosystem. Before, CentOS was…
> soul-successor I think you just made a new malapropism by getting the "sole" in "sole successor" mixed up with the homophone "soul" and then relating it to "spiritual successor" Both "sole successor" and "spiritual successor" are accurate descriptions in this case, so it works beautifully.
Being tired and having a different mother tongue has its perks, it seems. :)
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I've looked into this myself before, because I was curious and had the same thought as you. I don't feel comfortable making any detailed claims about GBM vs EGLStreams and which is better, but I will say there are absolutely some tradeoffs between the two and neither is entirely without merit. The thing that is worth noting is how this situation came to be. That is, there was at one point a conference where the commu…
linux development is one of those areas where physical absence is not required in order to participate in discussion and to collaborate with other participants, so it sounds to me more like excuse rather than proper explanation why nvidia decided to go another route :)
Money and proximity to hardware development would be the competing factors, and normally I'd like to pin the attribution on them, but there's just one small problem: I've been on a bunch of committees and they have pushed my estimation of typical committee dysfunction to extraordinary levels.
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I fail to see how moving to a rolling release strategy results in any kind of "death", seems like FUD to me. Rolling release, trying to stick to upstream releases as closely as possible, works well with Arch Linux, I'm glad CentOS learned from Arch Linux success. DISCLAMER: I'm not even a CentOS user, but I just like what RH does and has done for "the Linux community" as you call it (I would just call it "society" bu…
CentOS is doing nothing like Arch. CentOS rolling release will still be so slow that itll lag a lot behind Fedora. Its just that CentOS will now be afew months ahead of RHEL instead of afew months behind RHEL.