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13 votes
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Google has kicked Ahoy! the anti-censorship app from the Chrome store
22 votes -
Musk announces plan to open source part of Tesla's vehicle security software
@elonmusk: Great Q&A @defcon last night. Thanks for helping make Tesla & SpaceX more secure! Planning to open-source Tesla vehicle security software for free use by other car makers. Extremely important to a safe self-driving future for all.
7 votes -
DAS Keyboard banned a guy on forums for providing open source alternatives for their keyboards
@sebirdman: So I got banned from the @daskeyboard forums for telling people there's an open source alternative to the windows only software they provide. I'll never buy one of these keyboards again.
17 votes -
Michael MacInnis: Oh a new Unix shell - BSDCan 2018
6 votes -
Battle of the Schedulers: Linux's CFS vs FreeBSD's ULE
7 votes -
Microsoft forces Krita to change their Windows Store listing
24 votes -
An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs
28 votes -
Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
16 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 2
7 votes -
Linux distro of choice?
Topic.
28 votes -
OpenBSD on my fanless desktop computer - Roman Zolotarev
6 votes -
Richard Stallman's Free Software, Free Society Essay Collection
7 votes -
Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging
4 votes -
Nouveau (open source Nvidia graphics drivers)
So I tried to install sway on my desktop today. This required a lot of fiddling, as I had to pull in bleeding-edge dependencies for the Wayland libraries, and had to build the compositor framework...
So I tried to install
sway
on my desktop today. This required a lot of fiddling, as I had to pull in bleeding-edge dependencies for the Wayland libraries, and had to build the compositor framework wlroots. Finally however, I had everything compiled and ready to go and....Proprietary Nvidia drivers are not supported. Use Nouveau.
I had completely forgotten that
sway
requires open-source Nvidia drivers. So - has anyone had experience using Nouveau? How usable is it from day-to-day? How noticeable is the performance hit when switching from proprietary drivers?8 votes