• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    What you discovered is that today’s mediocre developers implement everything in web browsers, or web brower-like frameworks like Electron, and set them up to masquerade as normal applications, but with 100x the disk, RAM and CPU footprint.

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      7 days ago

      I ran into a consequence of Fedora doing that. Their installer application crashes when running under an old GTX1060 with Nouveau’s nShitia drivers in live USB mode.

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        7 days ago

        Oh is that why that happens? I just thought Nouveau drivers were incompatible with old Nvidia cards.