Yes, and many distros have a polkit rule set up to allow installing or updating without a password. You can likely just copy it from Fedora or sth
Writing graphics code in a unified model is quite a bit different from the conventional x86 model.
It isn't. The difference is pretty small, and it's just optimizations for when copies can be skipped and not a radical change in the approach of how rendering is done.
Intel would need their own equivalent to Metal if they wanted to do a similar move.
Not at all. If big-ish changes were required, they could be exposed as Vulkan extensions.
I don’t know enough about Vulkan to say if it’s compatible with this kind of approach
Of course Vulkan, the graphics API used on all modern phones except Apple's, supports using integrated graphics efficiently.
the fact that 1.8 was working tells me that it is possible for a window manager to work well for nvidia
Nope, it's a race condition for which the visible effects can appear or disappear for plenty of reasons. The only fix is explicit sync, which is being worked on for wlroots
It's been possible for a long time, but yes, now you can do it intuitively in the shortcuts GUI
The only effects relevant for performance are blur and background contrast. Turn those off if you feel the system is slow, maybe increase the animation speed and you're done
Most displays provide settings to modify the colors of your screen; mine has like 10 different "picture modes" that strongly modify gamma curves, colors and the whitepoint. The EDID only describes colors of one of them, so if you change display settings, the data no longer applies.
More generally, the information isn't used by Windows or other popular video sources by default, so manufacturers don't have much of an incentive to put correct information in there. If it doesn't make a difference for the user, why would they care? Some displays even go so far as to intentionally report wrong physical size information, to make Windows select the default scale the manufacturer wants to have on that display (or at least that's what I think is the case with my cheap AliExpress portable monitor)...
That's not to say that the information is actually often completely wrong or unusable, but if one in tenthousand displays gets really messed up colors because we toggle this setting on by default, it's not worth it. We might add some heuristics for detecting at least usable color information and change this decision at some point though
You can probably implement it in the script itself, but there's no external functionality to do it
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