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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).

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EndeavourOS Moving to KDE Plasma by Default (endeavouros.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EndeavourOS is moving to KDE Plasma for its live environment and offline installer from Xfce. You'll hear no complaints from me!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will that make it more usable for nvidia users?

Don't bet on it. For a while NVidia had hired a guy to implement EGLStreams support in KWin and other issues around supporting the Nvidia driver but since a year he's gone: https://invent.kde.org/users/ekurzinger/activity

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

Since then they've made their driver open source.

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

Since then they’ve made their driver open source.

No, they didn't. They open sourced the kernel module interfacing with the actual driver that's in user space. The actual OpenGL, Vulkan, etc. implementations are all closed source.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Also their "open source" commit updates are one-shot for any version updates and nothing in between. Makes it pretty hard to contribute to.