Have fun with Xorg. I hope it works well for you forever. Truly.
I see no reason why hardware support should get any worse for you so no problems there. And it will be a while yet before most apps stop running on Xorg.
The 78 percent of us using Wayland don’t need updates though. Thanks.
I think 1070 is a problem with recent drivers as NVIDIA has dropped support in the proprietary drivers and noveau still does not support them well.
Some have said the 550 series drivers work best for these cards: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/gtx-1070-ubuntu-24-only-550-works/332234
Plasma 6 is much improved over 5 in terms of Wayland.
What distro? Fewer problems on Arch is to be expected as it has more up to date software and drivers. On something that is improving quickly, like Wayland, that can make a lot of difference.
I get 3 Gbps now but I cannot get much more than 1 Gbps in practice due to the wrong in my home. Even if I had 8 Gbps, my network is not getting any faster.
I think the compatibility concerns are legit at least in principle. That said, if you look at the issues, 8 of the test failures are exotic edge cases in ‘tail’. I for one am not hitting these utilities hard enough to run into that kind of thing. These utilities are already good enough for most of us.
I am a fan of the benefits of Rust. The fact that RedoxOS and Ubuntu are shipping the same Coreutils as we exit 2025 is amazing.
I am one of those waiting for RVA23. SpaceMIT claimed they would ship by the end of 2025 but that is seeming very unlikely.
To be honest, I am really waiting for Ascalon now (itself RVA23). Tenstorrent says they will ship a version of their own silicon mid-2026. And the guy that created AMD Ryzen says it will be about as fast as Ryzen 5. We will see what it costs though. This chip “exists” but nobody is manufacturing the silicon yet.
If you don’t care about the vector instructions, this is pretty tempting though: https://milkv.io/titan
But RVA23 will be so much more compatible going forward. I would expect all RISC-V software to work with RVA23 for a long time and for most RISC-V software to require RVA23 in 2026 and beyond. It is like when the Intel ecosystem went 32 bit. “386 compatible” was the standard for well over a decade acting as the minimum but also remaining sufficient.
I know RVA23 maps to x86-64v4 and you can still run plain old RV64I or RV64GC on RVA23 but you cannot run 32 bit code on it. So the x86 to x86-64 transition is not a perfect analogy. But you can run a standard Linux distro released in 2025 on Intel hardware released in 2005. RVA23 may be like that.
The difference is that Haiku is actually capable of being a daily driver OS at this point (for some people). It also installs on a fair bit of real hardware.
ReactOS is still a technology preview. It can host old software in a VM. Hardware support remains very limited.
That said, ReactOS has made a lot of interesting progress recently and getting their 0.4.15 release out after literally years of being stuck in limbo was a big step forward. They have started to talk about new APIs, new hardware support, and 64 bit. I think they got some new blood. Fingers crossed.
What?
First one is optimized obvious.
Second one optimizes to x = 10 via constant propagation.
Third one first unrolls the loop, propagates constants including booleans, and then eliminates dead code to arrive at x = 10.
The last one cannot be optimized as “new” created objects that get used, nextInt() changes the state of those objects, and the global state of the random number system is impacted.
Traditionally, Canadians have been socially liberal and fiscally conservative and fairly “centrist” overall. That has mostly described the Liberals with the Conservatives mostly coming in to power after periods where the Liberals have been less fiscally conservative.
The NDP struggles to create a national mandate as they are perceived as too fiscally left (what gets the Liberals in trouble). The Conservatives are sometimes seen as too socially right, opening the door for the Liberals.
Is the goal to upset people or to avoid a climate crisis?
The carbon tax was in place long enough to make this a fact-based assessment. Any evidence that it helped?
I would like to see a government that can be effective without people “foaming at the mouth”. If the latter is the price of being effective, I will take it.
A government built on the idea that “if other people hate what we are doing then we must be doing it right” turns Canada into the US. No thank you.
If improving the climate is the goal, that should be what we measure. Strength of opposition represents at best an unavoidable side-effect and at worst failure to focus action on the actual goal.