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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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The Phoronix forms, where AMD and NVIDIA engineers can effectively communicate (lemmy.zip)

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Michael should be getting royalties

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, that guy really likes X11.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any "X11 vs Wayland" discussion will eventually devolve into a fight beteeen diehard X11 fans and diehard Wayland fans, lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't even understand how Wayland has diehard fans. Do they just exit out from their hyperland rice into an X11 session whenever they need to share their screen during a Teams meeting, or do they just say "if it doesn't work on Wayland it sucks and I don't use it".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Although, screen sharing has been solved a while ago. Any application that doesn't work is because the developers are shit (I am looking into you, zoom and you half-assed implementation using an screenshot-API-based gnome-only implementation).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I learnt how to use OBS just so I can export my screen to the camera feed because of Zoom's immensely confounding oversight considering their profit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For what it's worth, there's XWaylandVideoBridge now which can allow screen sharing on XWayland applications.