It would be disappointing if the county where Linux was born moved away from it out of ignorance.

It may be that when they say newer hardware “cannot run Linux” they actually mean that their system, that requires a BIOS, will not run.

No, it works with seatd. Seatd is a seat manager.

https://github.com/chimera-linux/turnstile

So what you are saying is that a lot gets done on those days.

Anyway, I agree that hybrid is the best model.

I mostly agree.

However, Ubuntu clearly sees 24.10 as the test bed for 25.04 and this is how they get the software tested. That is up to them.

I think also that, if you make a change this big, and only a couple of minor bugs are found and fixed before release, you are in pretty good shape.

And if all bugs are fixed this fast, even bugs found after release may impact only a few.

They have provided a mechanism to use the old utils if you want to be more conservative. Given that, I do not find this “irresponsible”.

There are probably bigger bugs elsewhere in 24.10 right now that will be harder to mitigate.

It has not even released yet.

Is your claim that non-Rust software gets written and runs perfectly without bugs the first time it is run, never requiring you to “tweek it”? That does not seem strongly evidence based. I assume by tweek, you mean tweak.

Also, they fixed this bug before this story, and your well researched comment, even appeared. The same thing happened just a few days ago when a similar “performance” bug was found. An entire chorus of idiots, including some prominent YouTubers, proudly proclaimed “I warned ya” for that one as well. Many predicting Ubuntu would need to be delayed or that people would be switching to other distros. Of course, the Rust version was already 50% faster than the C version by then and it was still weeks before the release date. Those comments did not age well.

And here we are again.

If you were trying to sound smart, it did not work.

And……fixed.

A few days ago we had a “performance” bug. Before the stories had even been written, the uutils was made 50% faster than GNU.

Now we have an actual difference in behaviour. But it is again fixed before the stories could even go out.

The anti-Rust crew is really trying to celebrate hear but it seems like uutils is proving them wrong so far.

We will see what happens in production I suppose.

It is lots of modules but not really that modular. There is little concern about working with anything else.

It will keep coming.

For GNOME, I think Chimera Linux is working in something with Turnstile that non-Systemd distros can use to get it working again.

I did the same even though I had seen this headline before

HEIF

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format

Look at everyday things that occasionally improve. We have probably not found the optimal way for almost anything.

Most of us just are not smart enough to find a better way.

I run a Proxmox homelab. I just had to shut everything it runs down to upgrade Proxmox. If I could hot rreload the kernel, I would not have had to do that. Sounds pretty handy to me. But that may be the multikernel approach, not this partitioning.

Honestly, even on the desktop. On distros like Arch or Chimera Linux, the kernel is getting updated all the time. It would be great to avoid restarts there too.

There is no hypervisor. So, no hypervisor to update and manage.

Xen is running full virtual machines. You run full operating systems on simulated hardware. The real “host” operating system is the hypervisor (Xen). Inside a VM, you have the concept of one or more CPUs but you do not know which actual CPU cores that maps to. The load can be distributed to any of them by the real host.

In something like Docker, you only run a single host kernel. On top of that you run sandbox environments that run on the kernel that “think” they have an environment to themselves but are actually sharing a single host kernel. The single host kernel directly manages the real hardware. Processes can run on any of the CPUs managed by the single host kernel.

In both of the above, updating the host means shutting the system down.

With this new approach, you have multiple kernels, all running natively on real hardware. Any given CPU is being managed by only one of the kernels. No hypervisor.

I was very excited for COSMIC but I have kind of moved on the Niri now. I am not sure it will lure me back.

That said, I have been using COSMIC Term and COSMIC Panel with Niri. So they still have their hooks in me.

I assume he means PooOS!, which is the distro shipped by System76.

I would have gone with GrubCraft but awesome otherwise.

AV1 has issues with film grain. There are things you can do. Let me admit however that one movie that I have not encoded as AV1 is a restored version of the original Star Wars. And film grain is a contributor to that.

Another thing about film grain though is that it is often artificially added after as you say. With AV1, you can often get amazing compression that removes the grain as a side-effect and then just add it back yourself. To each their own how they feel about this approach.

I also agree that H.264 can be more transparent. However, that is at massive file sizes. Others may have the space for that but I do not… Perhaps I do mot have the eyes for it either. I am not extracting and comparing single frames. To me, the AV1 files that I have look better at the size that I am archiving than they would using any other codec.

I use the fact that massive bit rate H.264 looks great to my advantage as that is what my AV1 is being transcoded into when I watch it most of the time.

Some content compresses better than others. Sometimes I get massive size reductions with AV1 at what looks like great quality to me. Other times, it struggles to beat H.265 or even H.264 at similar quality. It is pretty rare that I do not choose AV1 though.

I often use Netflix VMAF to get an idea of target compression. It is not perfect though. You have to verify visually. Saves time trialing different parameters though.

I should say that the audio codec is another big factor. I typically pair AV1 with Opus audio and the size reductions there are amazing even at quality levels that are transparent to me.

If AV2 offers better quality at the same size, or similar quality at smaller sizes, I will likely switch to it long before having hardware that can play it natively.

Plex vs Jellyfin is a lot like Windows vs Linux in my view.

There are things in Plex you can point to that you think keep you from moving. I point to things in Plex I am glad I left behind.

My wife is pretty normal. She uses the Jellyfin client on our Fire Sticks, Roku Soundbar, and TV.

She has no idea what Jellyfin is really. Just another Netflix or Prime in her mind.