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I just want them to make memory management sane. Is that too much to ask? OOM shouldn't cause a hard reboot. Ok actually I "solved" this by upgrading to 128GB of RAM (before the rampocalypse), but still they should fix it.
Have you considered zram/swap? Since running it, i have never seen mem usage > 95%, even under absurd workloads and have never been oom-killed ever since.
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Strongly disagree. Hardware support improved by leaps and bounds last decade and a half. Namespace isolation and cgroups driven containerization. eBPF appeared and gained adoption. Async I/O (and later just everything async) converged on io_uring. Btrfs is _stable_ - some people believed it would never be possible, ever. All kinds of scheduling were iterated and iterated over. All these things are visible across the…
btrfs is stable?? I used it a couple of years ago and really didn’t have a positive experience. I’ve found ZFS much more stable
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Strongly disagree. Hardware support improved by leaps and bounds last decade and a half. Namespace isolation and cgroups driven containerization. eBPF appeared and gained adoption. Async I/O (and later just everything async) converged on io_uring. Btrfs is _stable_ - some people believed it would never be possible, ever. All kinds of scheduling were iterated and iterated over. All these things are visible across the…
btrfs is stable?? I used it a couple of years ago and really didn’t have a positive experience. I’ve found ZFS much more stable
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It's more than that: free and open support for HDMI 2.1 in general. Previously it was only proprietary implementations that didn't leak the spec which were allowed. AMD is just the only one that has really good open source drivers which can benefit from it, and didn't work around the problem by converting HDMI to DisplayPort in a proprietary on-board GPU chip.
Intel only used the converters for 1st gen Arc dGPUs. Battlemage has native HDMI 2.1 and also ran into the same issues as AMD.
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Yeah but this is for amdgpu and they had DP2.1 support for a while now.
AMD RX 6700 XT from 2021 only has DP1.4 (but HDMI 2.1). Dell U5226KW from 2026 only has DP1.4 (but HDMI 2.1). I don't think I have seen anything above DP1.4 in the wild for now.
I just want them to make memory management sane. Is that too much to ask? OOM shouldn't cause a hard reboot. Ok actually I "solved" this by upgrading to 128GB of RAM (before the rampocalypse), but still they should fix it.
Have you considered zram/swap? Since running it, i have never seen mem usage > 95%, even under absurd workloads and have never been oom-killed ever since.
I just want them to make memory management sane. Is that too much to ask? OOM shouldn't cause a hard reboot. Ok actually I "solved" this by upgrading to 128GB of RAM (before the rampocalypse), but still they should fix it.
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I also have been using Linux for over 20 years and I agree that hardware support is the most noticable. This year I have installed Linux Mint on computers from people who wanted to jump from Windows to Linux. Every time I booted via USB, installed Linux and 10 minutes later everything was working. This would not have happened 10 years ago. Back then there would always be an issue with a video driver, WiFi driver or a…
> This would not have happened 10 years ago. Funny you say that, as I was installing Ubuntu on peoples laptops and it just worked, like 15 years ago... :-)
This was absolutely not everyones experience, including mine.
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Strongly disagree. Hardware support improved by leaps and bounds last decade and a half. Namespace isolation and cgroups driven containerization. eBPF appeared and gained adoption. Async I/O (and later just everything async) converged on io_uring. Btrfs is _stable_ - some people believed it would never be possible, ever. All kinds of scheduling were iterated and iterated over. All these things are visible across the…
btrfs is stable?? I used it a couple of years ago and really didn’t have a positive experience. I’ve found ZFS much more stable
It is funny with Linux (the kernel). From the outside it looks like almost nothing ever changes. You switch the computer on, it works away in the background to bring up the desktop and have everything talk. From that perspective it feels like nothing has changed in decades. But then you look at the change log, and almost everything you see added sounds really useful to someone working on this stuff. 35 years of work…
There is still a lot of work done on the background, perhaps even more than ever.
But unless you are a power user eagerly waiting for one of the things currently worked on, you wouldn't notice or care unless the interface changes (which usually only happens on visual interfaces).