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In light of Mozilla’s recent policy changes, we no longer feel assured that Firefox aligns with our commitment to protect your privacy. This prompted us to revisit the choice of default web browser in Zorin OS 17.3.

A new command-line option to control how many threads should be used to allocate huge pages. This can help "significantly" reduce boot time by tuning the parallelization of huge page initialization. This new command line option is "hugetlb_alloc_threads" and ideal if wanting to speed-up boot performance when allocating a large number of huge pages. The hugetlb_alloc_threads default is 25% of the available hardware threads. Cyberus Tech engineers found as much as a 2.75~4.3x speed-up for large servers:

Qt 6.9 is here! This release brings exciting innovations, enhanced graphics performance, and new platform capabilities to help you build exceptional applications.

Highlighted improvements in Qt 6.9 include:

• Qt Graphs: Interactive 2D panning, zooming, and dynamic 3D graph injection. Printing support now available!
• Qt Quick: GPU-accelerated SVG animations and Variable Rate Shading for improved graphics performance.
• Qt Quick Controls: New context menu support enhances desktop integration and user experience.
• XR Enhancements: Haptic feedback added for creating richter immersive virtual interactions.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/35294960

And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver.