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With Ikey languishing in his sick bed, the rest of the team discussed even more Linux hardware, Munich probably switching back to Windows, Elementary’s potentially ill-fated crowdfunded app store, Félim’s new phone and loads more. Plus we learn more about OpenSUSE from its chairman Richard Brown on LNL 04.
News
7 inch Ubuntu Laptop Indiegogo
Munich takes decisive step towards returning to Windows
Elementary OS are crowdfunding a pay what you want app store; They are writing it in Vala
Gaming on Ubuntu 16.10 vs Windows 10
Félim’s new Oneplus 3T
Admin
Shout out to Tuxedo Computers, a German Linux hardware company.
Jesse tried to list the video editors we had recommended to us.
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Jam
Jesse checked out a FOSS Command line Google Play Music client called Jam
OpenSUSE
The OpenSUSE chairman Richard Brown tells us about some of the great features of the distro. He mentioned a couple of FOSDEM talks.
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I bet a chunk of the performance difference is because those games are primarily developed to run on DirectX.
When they switch more low-level but platform-agnostic interfaces to the GPUs (don’t care enough ’bout games to remember the fancy names) the difference will probably shrink.
When War Craft 3 was released and OpenGL still was a think it would run faster under Wine using that than natively on Windows with DirectX.