Likelyhood of AMD 7900 xtx getting HDMI 2.1 support?
Hello,
I am currently in the process of building a new computer. Due to availability I have not been able to acquire a 5090, and I have instead started looking at the 7900 xtx. It looks like it so going to fit my needs pretty well.
However, the 7900 xtx card that is available to me is the Sapphire Nitro+. This card does have 2x HDMI - 2x DP . I am also planning to upgrade into 3x 4k gaming monitors, and I am afraid im going to get screwed by the HDMI ports not working on 2.1
Does anyone have any information regarding this, or another solution that would work?
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Hello,
I am currently in the process of building a new computer. Due to availability I have not been able to acquire a 5090, and I have instead started looking at the 7900 xtx. It looks like it so going to fit my needs pretty well.
However, the 7900 xtx card that is available to me is the Sapphire Nitro+. This card does have 2x HDMI - 2x DP . I am also planning to upgrade into 3x 4k gaming monitors, and I am afraid im going to get screwed by the HDMI ports not working on 2.1
Does anyone have any information regarding this, or another solution that would work?
Cheers
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LACT v0.7.2 released with RDNA4 support, Nvidia locked clocks and ROP count reporting
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Main changes:
RDNA4 support! LACT now works on RX 9070 series GPUs with functional clocks settings, power limit and fan control.
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Main changes:
RDNA4 support! LACT now works on RX 9070 series GPUs with functional clocks settings, power limit and fan control.
Special thanks to @Lawstorant who submitted s...
Has Alacritty become significantly faster? A newer typometer benchmark of a few terminal emulators.
Around 4 years ago I was building my own x11-WM, and had been using Alacritty for a few months.
Each time my WM crashed I was dumped back into the tty, and it was striking how fast typing in it felt, then I saw [this post\](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/jc9ipw/why_do_all_newer_terminal_emulators_have_such_bad/) and it clicked. The input lag was extremely noticeable, I switched back to xterm and have been using it since.
\---
A lot of time has passed, and development has moved forwards, I heard good things about ghostty, so I decided to fire up some terminal emulators, find the (somewhat) maintained [typometer branch\](https://github.com/frarees/typometer) and see what's changed.
I benchmarked the three terminal emulators that I currently find most interesting (in and outside of neovim) against xterm:
Alacritty, kitty, and ghostty, [here are the results\](https://imgur.com/ckMdY2G).
Or in short table form, sorted by lowest input latency.
|Terminal emulator|Avg ms latency|SD ms latency|
|:-|:-|:-|
|xterm|4.0|0.4|
|xterm nvim|3.9|0.6|
|alacritty|4.6|0.5|
|alacritty nvim|6.5|1.0|
|ghostty|13.7|2.9|
|ghostty nvim|13.7|2.9|
|kitty|22.1|8.1|
|kitty nvim|24|7.9|
\---
xterm and alacritty are so close that the difference is probably not noticeable anymore, while ghostty touches too-slow-to-use-at-all territory, and kitty is an immediate no-go.
In case you skipped looking back at the previous post, this https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ may be a good read on why latency matters when typing. I personally spend almost all my time at the computer typing into a terminal, which means that the way I rate terminal emulators may be very skewed compared to someone who mostly cats/greps files f.e.
Then again, there's some evidence to suggest that poor input latency trips your brain up, while slow rendering of a text-dump has no such evidence that I'm aware of.
\---
Four years ago I had different hardware, but I'm wondering why xterm's latency has increased by close to 400%, while alacritty's has decreased by almost 70% compared to my last benchmark. Does anyone know why that is?
\---
Now I'm considering switching to alacritty, I need to run some more benchmarks on my other devices to see that it's not just a hardware-thing with this specific machine as well before I do it. Is there any big benefits to switching to alacritty now that its killing drawback has been removed for me?
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Around 4 years ago I was building my own x11-WM, and had been using Alacritty for a few months.
Each time my WM crashed I was dumped back into the tty, and it was striking how fast typing in it felt, then I saw [this post\](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/jc9ipw/why_do_all_newer_terminal_emulators_have_such_bad/) and it clicked. The input lag was extremely noticeable, I switched back to xterm and have been using it since.
\---
A lot of time has passed, and development has moved forwards, I heard good things about ghostty, so I decided to fire up some terminal emulators, find the (somewhat) maintained [typometer branch\](https://github.com/frarees/typometer) and see what's changed.
I benchmarked the three terminal emulators that I currently find most interesting (in and outside of neovim) against xterm:
Alacritty, kitty, and ghostty, [here are the results\](https://imgur.com/ckMdY2G).
Or in short table form, sorted by lowest input latency.
|Terminal emulator|Avg ms latency|SD ms latency|
|:-|:-|:-|
|xterm|4.0|0.4|
|xterm nvim|3.9|0.6|
|alacritty|4.6|0.5|
|alacritty nvim|6.5|1.0|
|ghostty|13.7|2.9|
|ghostty nvim|13.7|2.9|
|kitty|22.1|8.1|
|kitty nvim|24|7.9|
\---
xterm and alacritty are so close that the difference is probably not noticeable anymore, while ghostty touches too-slow-to-use-at-all territory, and kitty is an immediate no-go.
In case you skipped looking back at the previous post, this https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ may be a good read on why latency matters when typing. I personally spend almost all my time at the computer typing into a terminal, which means that the way I rate terminal emulators may be very skewed compared to someone who mostly cats/greps files f.e.
Then again, there's some evidence to suggest that poor input latency trips your brain up, while slow rendering of a text-dump has no such evidence that I'm aware of.
\---
Four years ago I had different hardware, but I'm wondering why xterm's latency has increased by close to 400%, while alacritty's has decreased by almost 70% compared to my last benchmark. Does anyone know why that is?
\---
Now I'm considering switching to alacritty, I need to run some more benchmarks on my other devices to see that it's not just a hardware-thing with this specific machine as well before I do it. Is there any big benefits to switching to alacritty now that its killing drawback has been removed for me?
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ubuntu 22.04 - installed lightdm
HOLY SHIT.... like goddamn... formula 1 right here.. opened in like miliseconds
wanted to try out budgie without installing it
so lightdm got installed. alright, whatever. accidentally logged in with xorg instead of budgie/wayland
and DAMN, this thing be like "yooo is this crack display manager? hell yeah, give me some of that speed"
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HOLY SHIT.... like goddamn... formula 1 right here.. opened in like miliseconds
wanted to try out budgie without installing it
so lightdm got installed. alright, whatever. accidentally logged in with xorg instead of budgie/wayland
and DAMN, this thing be like "yooo is this crack display manager? hell yeah, give me some of that speed"
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I'm so tired of windows 11, I'm thinking about switching, is setting up linux and gaming on it easy?
I'm so fed up with Microsoft BS every time i find myself wasting days of my time digging the depths of the internet to find a solution for a bug MS thinks it's a feature, this is so annoying I have been looking for solutions to fix this stupid OS for years and everytime it's a new problem, I'm really tired and really frustrated, i want to switch but i mainly play pirated games is it possible to play them on linux?
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I'm so fed up with Microsoft BS every time i find myself wasting days of my time digging the depths of the internet to find a solution for a bug MS thinks it's a feature, this is so annoying I have been looking for solutions to fix this stupid OS for years and everytime it's a new problem, I'm really tired and really frustrated, i want to switch but i mainly play pirated games is it possible to play them on linux?
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Bluefin system requirements
I've been a bit curious about Bluefin and would like to try it on a spare laptop. My main "spare laptop" is very low resource though (specifically: it's an old Thinkpad Yoga with only 4G RAM), so I'm not sure if it's a good idea.
It's run GNOME before, and it's fine... most of the time. Sometimes it has a RAM-based freezeup. But mostly OK.
I've been looking for Bluefin's system requirements and not seeing any information, which kinda makes me assume that it's *not* for low end laptops like that. Like, if they're not posting system requirements it's because everybody who uses it has new high spec equipment so they never worry their pretty little heads about "system requirements".
So I probably would not want to use *that* laptop to try it out.
But if anybody has actual information I'd be very curious.
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I've been a bit curious about Bluefin and would like to try it on a spare laptop. My main "spare laptop" is very low resource though (specifically: it's an old Thinkpad Yoga with only 4G RAM), so I'm not sure if it's a good idea.
It's run GNOME before, and it's fine... most of the time. Sometimes it has a RAM-based freezeup. But mostly OK.
I've been looking for Bluefin's system requirements and not seeing any information, which kinda makes me assume that it's *not* for low end laptops like that. Like, if they're not posting system requirements it's because everybody who uses it has new high spec equipment so they never worry their pretty little heads about "system requirements".
So I probably would not want to use *that* laptop to try it out.
But if anybody has actual information I'd be very curious.
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"Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive" by Sandeep Patil and Irene Ang (December 5, 2023)
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Bcachefs Racing To Track Down New Upgrade Bug In Linux 6.14
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Bcachefs Racing To Track Down New Upgrade Bug In Linux 6.14
The Linux 6.14 stable kernel is likely to be released in just over one week and thus leading to Bcachefs file-system developers racing to track down a new bug that's been reported by a user on upgrading to the new kernel.
Akira Ransomware Encryption Cracked Using Cloud GPU Power
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Akira Ransomware Encryption Cracked Using Cloud GPU Power
A security researcher successfully decrypted files encrypted by the Linux/ESXi variant of Akira ransomware without paying the ransom.
Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
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Last month I published Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years, which outlines four key themes for how I intend to evolve Ubuntu in the coming years. In this post, I’ll focus on “Modernisation”. There are many areas we could look to modernise in Ubuntu:…
The atrocious state of binary compatibility on Linux
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GIMP 3 is officially released - https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/ check comments for more info
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Linux: A modular dream until you try customizing keyboard layouts
I use a custom keyboard layout, as I'm a native Lithuanian speaker, who knows Romanian at around B1 level.
On Windows, I made an elegant AutoHotkey noscript.
On Linux, I made:
A version of my AutoHotkey noscript using a fan-made port of Windows AutoHotkey from 2005, however it was too buggy and from my use, I decided that it works as a proof-of-concept rather than a reliable end-product. Oh, also it works only on bare metal and not on a VM for some reason.
Two
When it comes to IBus, IBus interprets `.XCompose` files differently, like so I don't have exactly functionality. I implemented a noscript that kills IBus process, copies over `.XCompose_lt` and `.XCompose_ro` to `.XCompose` and restarts it, as such switching them between, but apparently it works only on Xubuntu for some reason – it doesn't work on Fedora
I tried making a Python noscript with keyboard library that was said to be cross-platform. I wrote the noscript on Windows, and then when I ran it on Linux, it didn't work.
I ended up rewriting the Python noscript, that used `xdotool` instead of keyboard.write and `.Xmodmap` \+ `.XCompose` instead of `keyboard.hook` for reassigning keys and for keyboard.hook(on\_key\_event, suppress=True) equivalent respectively. It ended up conflicting with `.XCompose` – some key presses were being lost.
I don't use Wayland, but solutions for Wayland are virtually impossible without low-level development; I don't think after all that my AutoHotkey noscript can be implemented without any low-level programming to work at all.
You can see the project for what it is here:
https://github.com/Tomurisk/Euromak
TL;DR – Linux has modular design, sure, but when it comes to more-specific tweaks on the GUI userland, the ship sinks right there. While I appreciate Linux for what it is, I'll need to appreciate the project from sidelines while using Windows. And that's a shame.
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I use a custom keyboard layout, as I'm a native Lithuanian speaker, who knows Romanian at around B1 level.
On Windows, I made an elegant AutoHotkey noscript.
On Linux, I made:
A version of my AutoHotkey noscript using a fan-made port of Windows AutoHotkey from 2005, however it was too buggy and from my use, I decided that it works as a proof-of-concept rather than a reliable end-product. Oh, also it works only on bare metal and not on a VM for some reason.
Two
.XCompose files that can't be switched besides restarting session (WTF?) or input method like IBusWhen it comes to IBus, IBus interprets `.XCompose` files differently, like so I don't have exactly functionality. I implemented a noscript that kills IBus process, copies over `.XCompose_lt` and `.XCompose_ro` to `.XCompose` and restarts it, as such switching them between, but apparently it works only on Xubuntu for some reason – it doesn't work on Fedora
I tried making a Python noscript with keyboard library that was said to be cross-platform. I wrote the noscript on Windows, and then when I ran it on Linux, it didn't work.
I ended up rewriting the Python noscript, that used `xdotool` instead of keyboard.write and `.Xmodmap` \+ `.XCompose` instead of `keyboard.hook` for reassigning keys and for keyboard.hook(on\_key\_event, suppress=True) equivalent respectively. It ended up conflicting with `.XCompose` – some key presses were being lost.
I don't use Wayland, but solutions for Wayland are virtually impossible without low-level development; I don't think after all that my AutoHotkey noscript can be implemented without any low-level programming to work at all.
You can see the project for what it is here:
https://github.com/Tomurisk/Euromak
TL;DR – Linux has modular design, sure, but when it comes to more-specific tweaks on the GUI userland, the ship sinks right there. While I appreciate Linux for what it is, I'll need to appreciate the project from sidelines while using Windows. And that's a shame.
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Linux Users. Whats one reason why you switched?
For me it was the stability, windows always bugged out to where i had to reset my PC every other month and also there were a LOT of bugs in general. I Switched because of stability issues; now i have been using linux for 3 years now.
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For me it was the stability, windows always bugged out to where i had to reset my PC every other month and also there were a LOT of bugs in general. I Switched because of stability issues; now i have been using linux for 3 years now.
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Resurrected an ~11 year old ACER Aspire ES1-512 with MX Linux! [Repost with proper tag]
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Easy Netflix 1080p on Linux (2025)
So yeah DRM and stuff, Netflix sucks bla bla bla
Anyways, just found out from their website that they only support 720p on linux.... BUT on opera browser? What the fuck?
https://preview.redd.it/ywl8lbdd6cpe1.png?width=879&format=png&auto=webp&s=586107631ab00b6eabed7d58fea749eb0e92900f
Anyways, after reading this I did one quick
I have no clue if this is well known stuff but I tried whatever the first-5 google results gave me and they didn't work (installing extensions, etc).
Opera's User Agent:
You're welcome!
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So yeah DRM and stuff, Netflix sucks bla bla bla
Anyways, just found out from their website that they only support 720p on linux.... BUT on opera browser? What the fuck?
https://preview.redd.it/ywl8lbdd6cpe1.png?width=879&format=png&auto=webp&s=586107631ab00b6eabed7d58fea749eb0e92900f
Anyways, after reading this I did one quick
yay -S opera to get that browser's User Agent, and with that I just discovered you can just spoof it to get 1080p, I use Brave and it works flawlessly.I have no clue if this is well known stuff but I tried whatever the first-5 google results gave me and they didn't work (installing extensions, etc).
Opera's User Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/117.0.0.0You're welcome!
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