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RPi Awesomeness

20:00

@blade19899 o.O wut. I is confused.

blade19899

@RPiAwesomeness Yep. Screenshot? And...

Working DBZ Scouter - DuckDuckGo

> ... Made on for my wife...

Making a DBZ Scouter: Completed Version 1

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RPi Awesomeness

I'm still confused.

Seth

So, does anyone actually use Lightworks for editing around here?

RPi Awesomeness

I've never seen DBZ, sooooo

blade19899

@Seth Openshot man myself

@RPiAwesomeness WHUT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!

@Seth Tried it out once. But openshot felt faster, and more features. Exporting wise.

The free version of Lightworks only could export to 720p.

Openshot, to whatever you want. I think.

RPi Awesomeness

20:05

@Seth Tried it out, felt too complicated IMO and the tutorials weren't great. I just stuck with Kdenlive. I probably should try it out again.

Am I the only one who got a 404 for the chat pages?

Seth

@blade19899 o_O

I'll have to look into that.

@RPiAwesomeness I think the tutorials have gotten better since then.

My problem is non-linear video editing is very foreign to me, despite the fact that it is much more powerful than linear editing.

RPi Awesomeness

@Seth Yeah. Haven't used it a month or two.

Seth

Dunno if I could ever get used to it :P

RPi Awesomeness

@Seth Yeah, I'm used to linear.

blade19899

The openshot developer is working on a mayor upgrade, here is the latest status report: OpenShot Video Editor | Blog: February Update: GIFs, Video Playback, Cross-Platform, Installers, and Releases

Seth

20:07

still, I think learning non-linear would be good for both of us.

RPi Awesomeness

Probably. I've got Natron installed and hope to use that at some point, that's a non-linear editor.

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness Ooh cool. I'll check it out.

RPi Awesomeness

@blade19899 Cool! I tried OpenShot a little while back and it just felt like it lacked features, especially compared to Kdenlive. Compared to WMM, it looked great.

@Seth It's more of an effects editor than a compositing editor.

Seth

@RPiAwesomeness Ah. So more in line with after effects than, say, something like KDEnlive or Sony Vegas?

Mateo

@Seth yeah, it kind of forces you to organize things they way they want, which would be great for huge projects... but usually I just want to throw two videos together and export not saving the project

Seth

20:13

yeah, that's what I was afraid of.

Mateo

@blade19899 sweet, I like openshot very easy for a quick project

RPi Awesomeness

@Seth Yeah, except that it's non-linear

Seth

right.

RPi Awesomeness

I currently have $90 of my own money in my house. $10 in a saving envelope & $80 in my wallet. Please no one mug me.

blade19899

@RPiAwesomeness I have 50 bucks and no income. Lost my job. They didn't have enough work for me. Please someone, kill me.

RPi Awesomeness

20:25

@blade19899 For real?

blade19899

@RPiAwesomeness We'll with savings its a couple of hundred, but yeah for reals.

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RPi Awesomeness

@blade19899 :(

Anyone want to see a picture of a bunch of super fast cars I just took?

blade19899

@RPiAwesomeness I have been looking for a job 9-5. Not having a job means you have a job. Saerching for a job.

@RPiAwesomeness Yes.

RPi Awesomeness

@blade19899 I'm sorry man :(

Janaka R Rajapaksha

20:29

hi

RPi Awesomeness

o/

blade19899

@RPiAwesomeness Don't be. I'm 25, I know how to survive.

@RPiAwesomeness Hella fast cars!

RPi Awesomeness

@blade19899 Ah. Good

blade19899

@JanakaRRajapaksha Waddup playa!

RPi Awesomeness

@blade19899 ;) Indeed. We got 2 Ferrari Enzos in there, a Ferrari FXX, Corvette Stingray Concept, '07 Shelby GT500, '65 Mustang ... all dem fast cars

Janaka R Rajapaksha

20:30

please help me, i tried to install ubuntu 14.04, and a part of hdd was unusable, and now cant load even windows please can you help?

blade19899

> Blurs to block view...

P0rn?

Janaka R Rajapaksha

@blade19899 hey after a long time

RPi Awesomeness

Janaka R Rajapaksha

please anyone know how this unusable space get available?

in hdd?

RPi Awesomeness

@blade19899 No...unless you call a pile of school books everywhere p0rn

Schoolbooks, power cords & legos (brothers legos that he never picks up :P)

Mateo

20:33

ok, here is active, with two players going:

each player has mute/volume, and a star icon for pining or staring it

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo Hmm....not bad

Though, it looks a bit cluttered ... :P

blade19899

Left 4 Dead 2 Time!

Bye!

RPi Awesomeness

I think it would be better to have just one volume, but a mute on each one next to the icon and only active players have the buttons

Well, that was abrupt.

Sauve qui peut!

:D

Mateo

then inactive:

RPi Awesomeness

Anyone care to take a guess at what that means? Something I learned in French

Mateo

20:39

except I accidentally deleted the mute button...

RPi Awesomeness

@Mateo ... Okay, I see. I think it would be better to have an extra thing in the Sound Settings where you can say which ones you do & don't want instead of having that extra icon on the menu itself.

Mateo

then you can have shortcuts to your "favorite" ones

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RPi Awesomeness

Supposedly, the ability to easily customize these menus is "coming" but it's been "coming" for quite a while now :P

Mateo

@RPiAwesomeness yeah, that would work, show a list then remove them in the sound settings, but a smaller footprint for the inactive ones by default

RPi Awesomeness

20:44

@Mateo Yeah, like @blade19899's design. Inactive ones are in a small list, and the active ones are full & have the control buttons.

Stupid Duolingo. Y U NO PLAY SOUNDS?

Mateo

I do like icon + text, but yeah

RPi Awesomeness

[Halfway to the Sun ...] Heyyyy ... what if this BALLOON is full of acorns?!

lol

Seth

RPi Awesomeness

@Seth That is one of the best Foxtrots :D

One of the survivors, poking around in the ruins with the point of a spear, uncovers a singed photo of Richard Stallman. They stare in silence. "This," one of them finally says, "This is a man who BELIEVED in something."

haha

jrg

21:01

GNU/HURD CONFIRMED!

it's like Half Life 3

except more elusive.

So there are 3 families of operating systems. DOS, Linux and BSD.

Fabby

@blade19899 Voted "affects me too!" ;-)

ByteCommander

@Fabby Hi Fabby! :) How are you?

Seth

Does the HURD differ from Linux in any core philosophies or something? Seems like a waste to be developing a kernel no one really uses and will likely ever use.

Fabby

@blade19899 Do you know docker?

@ByteCommander How's Quantum physics?

>:)

ByteCommander

Nah... Could be better. But you know: When you think you fully understood it, you surely got something wrong... So it's actually okay. ;)

Mateo

21:08

@Seth I think they were tired of everyone just calling it "linux"...

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness Save All Souls...

Seth

@Mateo That's.. a silly reason. No?

jrg

@Seth HURD is EMACS

But seriously

emacs is an operating system

It re-implements everything

from filesystem calls

Seth

So the answer is "because emacs"?

jrg

to how it displays on screen

I know people who live inside emacs

Mateo

21:10

oh, never-mind: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy

jrg

and if they could fit chrome inside it, they'd do it in a heartbeat.

Fabby

@ByteCommander If you take the E=mc² approach and the ventilator approach and the magnetic filed without magnet approach, it actually makes SENSE!

>:)

@jrg :D :D :D Starred!

Mateo

> ambitious design which proved unexpectedly difficult to implement and has only been marginally usable

Fabby

@Mateo Indeed! Monolithic Linux works... >:)

Seth

@jrg That's so MS..

Fabby

21:12

Hurd was way too ambitious!

jrg

gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Symbolic-Links.html

oh, sorry. that's libc

not emacs.

Fabby

@Toroidal Read this. Do you even know what promiscuous mode is???

user136984

@Fabby Ok, am reading that although not too sure what it has to do with promiscuous mode (or if it is meant to)... And nope, I have no idea what promiscuous mode is, that is one of the reasons why I was asking... :)

Fabby

>:-)

I'll answer your question then...

I'll go for a smoke first...

The read was about: RTFM before you install random stuff that looks cool!

And always install from the standard repository, then a PPA (if really needed) and then a deb (eww!) and then source tarballs! (puke!) :P

user136984

21:27

@Fabby RTFM? Right Tofu Fingered Monks...?

jrg

@Toroidal Read The Flippin' Manual.

Fabby

@Toroidal Close: Read the Fingered Manual

>:)

user136984

@jrg @Fabby: :D

jrg

Although I like Right Tofu Fingered Monks.

I will have to use that for something.

Fabby

Q answered (I decided to go for a smoke afterwards)

Nathan Osman

21:33

@Fabby There's nothing wrong with a tarball.

[cough] Gentoo [cough]

terdon

Yeah, some of us remember when the vast majority of software you'd install on your Linux box came in tarballs. Weren't you supposed to be an old timer? :P

Fabby

@NathanOsman Yes, you're right, of course... But if I have a choice of repository, PPA, DEB and tarball, then I'll always take the repository...

(unless it's a friendly developer that I can reach asking me to test something) ;-)

Nathan Osman

Hey, I have a PPA :P

(And for that exact reason - users find them easier to use.)

Fabby

@terdon Yes, I'm an old fart! That doesn't mean I live in a cave and bang rocks instead of connecting to the Internet! :P ;-)

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jrg

i'm 18. I REMEMBER THE TARBALL DAYS

so actually

we reverted to that

Fabby

21:39

:D

jrg

doesn't docker use tarballs under the hood?

Fabby

@jrg I just installed it for a job interview from the Ubuntu repository

Nathan Osman

@jrg For importing / exporting, I believe so.

Fabby

easy to remove!

No job? Out it goes!

>:)

Nathan Osman

We're moving 2buntu over to Docker/CoreOS, so if anyone has Docker questions, I may be able to answer them.

CoreOS will make you feel right at home if you're very familiar with systemd.

terdon

21:41

@jrg Yes, but you're also spreading disinformation about emacs. People star that and don't star your retraction :(

Grrrrrr

jrg

@terdon No, emacs is an operating system.

terdon

You know, in Emacsland, King RMS would shoot you for that.

@jrg Myths and lies. It's what you want it to be.

Fabby

:D Here we go again!

terdon

:P

At least it lets you edit a file by default, without needing to enter some obscure mode first!

jrg

emacs = Even a Master of Arts Comes Simpler

terdon

21:43

@jrg Hey, I have a PhD and I can use it perfectly well ;)

I will admit that learning it was a significant part of said PhD. On the other hand, I looked at both vi and emacs and vi was just too scary. Emacs was far easier to learn.

jrg

I don't like vi.

Nathan Osman

Guys, guys!

Fabby

Actually, Notepad++ is the best free editor I've ever used...
(No, I'm not running wine just to run Notepad++, gedit and nano will do)

Nathan Osman

nano

jrg

REAL PROGRAMMERS USE BUTTERFLIES.

Fabby

21:44

@NathanOsman Good enough!

jrg

(somebody reset the "Time Since XKCD Was Referenced" clock)

terdon

@jrg What? Neither emacs nor vi? And they made you a mod!?

Nathan Osman

I agree with @terdon - nano lets me edit the file without a bunch of cryptic commands.

Mateo

Arg, those bitflipping butterflies. .

Nathan Osman

@terdon s/Notepad/nano/

terdon

21:46

For those who haven't read it, this is a wonderfully impartial reference. Those are very hard to find in the eternal editor debate:

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A: What are the pros and cons of Vim and Emacs?

I use both, although if I had to choose one, I know which one I would pick. Still, I'll try to make an objective comparison on a few issues. Available everywhere? If you're a professional system administrator who works with Unix systems, or a power user on embedded devices (routers, smartphones...

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby No, Run for Your Life ;)

jrg

The answer is that you use the one that is available on the system you are working on.

I am reasonably fluent in Sublime, Notepad++, Gedit, Nano, emacs, vim, Visual Studio (of the 2010 and 2013 varieties), as well as textedit.

I also found that open in word that lets you edit without screwing up normal text encoding and line endings.

terdon

@jrg What? Really? Joking apart, I thought that opening in word would automatically convert \n to \r\n.

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness Literally: "Save who can" which in English would translate to "Save All Souls"

@terdon :D :D :D Good one! I gave up on emacs after 1 day of trying to open 1 file... >:)

RPi Awesomeness

Good grief. Why. Why do we even have the stars anymore ...

@Fabby o.O

terdon

21:52

@Fabby Why did that give you trouble? emacs file

RPi Awesomeness

@Fabby Where are you getting that translation? o.O

Fabby

@terdon figuratively speaking

RPi Awesomeness

terdon

@RPiAwesomeness It's what it means. peut means he can.

Fabby

@RPiAwesomeness Sauve = save qui= who peut = can...

terdon

21:53

@RPiAwesomeness Yes, that's the idiomatic translation, not the literal one.

RPi Awesomeness

@terdon Ooooh. Of course.

Fabby

It means save all souls...

It's like the English joke: "Why are all the French always asking for mercy?"

;-) :P

terdon

@Fabby hadn't you asked a question about finding all users who don't have home directories?

Fabby

@terdon I answered one a few months back and got told off by you never to do something I did. (parse the output of ls or something or the other?)

;-) >:)

Why?

Seth

@terdon haha, that's somewhat funny because I got the same impression of emacs..

but perhaps I just didn't have a good intro :)

Fabby

22:01

I actually made a feature comparison matrix of all Linux editors when I first moved over...

And emacs came out top of the list in everything I needed to do!

I just gave up doing anything at all with it after 24 hours of trying...

I suppose you have to be a level-RMS to actually be able to use it!

terdon

@Seth Dunno, I had no intro. I was just told that these are the two tools available, use one of them. vi needed to much work before I could even type anything.

Fabby

As I didn't know much about anything on Ubuntu, I ended up using gedit after I nuked mu precise to to to trusty!

terdon

@Fabby I cheated. I had an emacs guru sitting next to me when I was learning. Also, the docs are very good, have a look at the emacs wiki.

Virusboy

area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/58307/…

RPi Awesomeness

Okay, Banshee has been having some issues lately.

Seth

22:03

@terdon lazy, it's only one key :P

Virusboy

emacs?

terdon

@Seth Yeah, but if you don't know that, you're screwed.

RPi Awesomeness

strange shuffling where it doesn't even play half the songs, not deleting the song I've got selected from the playlist but a different one...

terdon

I know enough vi to be able to use it for simple line editing when I have to. But emacs is always the first thing I install on any new system.

Fabby

@terdon After I've finished the Linux System Administration Manual, I'll start on Go and I'll put emacs into my input queue after that! :)

Seth

22:04

@terdon if I recall my 5 minutes with emacs it was very similar.. Anyway, if you can show me a good "getting started" guide I'm cool with giving it a second chance.

Not that I'll likely replace vim with it.

@terdon well tbh every Linux sysadmin needs to know vi to a certain extent.. You can't really get around it (although I think nano is on more and more systems these days)

terdon

@Fabby The language or the game?

Virusboy

i think im going to install this now

btw I lost the game

Fabby

@terdon :D:D:D

Virusboy

thank @terdon

Seth

The game is cool.

Fabby

22:06

Language:

terdon

@Seth Yeah, that's about as much vi as I know. I can open a file, edit it and save it.

Seth

The language is cool too I think.

Fabby

fast compile & fast execution time!

terdon

And I have nothing against other people using vi. Just don't inflict it on me.

Fabby

I took the tutorial on-line and knew that go had to come before perl!

terdon

22:06

I will also cheerfully admit that it's a hell of a good editor.

@Fabby WHAT? You guys are pushing all my buttons today!

:P

Fabby

@terdon Do you know go?

terdon

No, but I hear good things about it.

Fabby

I don't know either... If you know both, I'll happily listen...

AFAIK, perl is interpreted...

terdon

I'm not a programmer. I only know perl, shell, awk and a teeny tiny bit of C.

Fabby

I know ASM, PASCAL, C, BASIC (puke), bash, awk,

terdon

22:08

@Fabby No, and I am not qualified to compare languages if we're being serious. If we're being facetious, I'll defend Perl against all comers, but I know my limits.

Fabby

LOGO!

blade19899

@Fabby I have heard of it, but not sure of what it does

terdon

Whitespace!

Fabby

I build a logo robot together with a friend when I was 17

Seth

LOGO ftw!

Fabby

22:09

@blade19899 Look it up...

I'm in the running for a job in Amsterdam.

blade19899

@Fabby Guessing thats code for it can do magic :D

Fabby

If you start studying for it, I'm pretty sure they can use more people...

blade19899

@Fabby Ow cool, I can use a job right about now. Exactly.

Fabby

Are you close to A'dam?

Virusboy

I know every one cept java(Throws in cirle of hell next to PHP)

Fabby

22:10

That's why I said, you dummy!

You're Dutch, so you must live within 100Km of Amsterdam!

:P

I saw that you lost your job in the chat transcript... :(

And these people are looking for developers...

blade19899

@Fabby I'm close to Amsterdam by train.

Fabby

Look it up, start playing with it and keep me posted on your progress!

There you go!

blade19899

@Fabby Yeah, it sucked.

@Fabby Any place specific I should be researching it?

Fabby

I understand: job of your life and then they let you go...

terdon

@Fabby Stop manipulating the youngsters into doing your work for you!

Fabby

22:13

Huh?

terdon

:)

Fabby

@terdon No! Not at all!

I'm studying it too!

ByteCommander

Just came back. What's the topic?

Fabby

And as these people are based in Amsterdam,

Docker

and @blade19899 likes it...

blade19899

Online Tutorial - Try It! | Docker

Fabby

22:14

why not? Maybe that's the kharma of why I heard of this job:

to give it to blade...

blade19899

@Fabby If it can get me a job. I like it.

Fabby

(I'm looking for a new gig too!)

Virusboy

i have a gig

Fabby

@Virusboy For yourself? Good!

Virusboy

yup

Seth

22:16

Ugh, who keeps starring irrelevant stuff? I just looked at the stars and it is completely full of stuff no one else obviously cares about.

Fabby

if you've got gigs for some of us here, let us know! >:)

@Seth Maybe some people thought these would make the next shift smile???

terdon

@Seth Clean it. Just leave the fascinating things I said ;)

Fabby

(I always say it when I star)

(then the person can always ask for an unstar)

Seth

@Fabby generally the rule of thumb is if no one else stars it it isn't really interesting.

ByteCommander

Problem is that you only can unstar within 3(?) minutes...

Fabby

22:19

:D Then nothing ever gets starred!

Seth

@Fabby That's not really true.

ByteCommander

It is - if everybody would wait until another one stars something.

Fabby

Is there a way to see only 2*?

ByteCommander

^ would be a good feature!

Fabby

Now it does look indeed like James Kayla has been on it again!

>:)

Virusboy

22:21

chat ban forever

ByteCommander

And that although even @Toroidal isn't logged in...

blade19899

@Fabby I've got some sites where you can make some money on-line. Depends how much time you wanna put in.

Fabby

@Virusboy Forever? I thought you got banned for a few days, then weeks, then a year, then forever?

ByteCommander

Oh, he is. Oops. Did not see him.

Fabby

@ByteCommander It wasn't him...

I said "it looks like him.."

all irrelevant stars...

Virusboy

22:23

in some cases you can over step that inital few days

Fabby

Anyway, I need to get up at 05:30

I'm off!

need some sleep

Still 5 hours left!

bye!

user136984

@ByteCommander Hmm... What?

user136984

@Fabby: Goodnight! :)

terdon

Goodnight Fabby, dream of GO.

blade19899

Night, Night!

user136984

22:26

@Fabby @ByteCommander: And what's this about James Kayla? Has he been back again?

user136984

Sorry, haven't been following the conversation so no idea what you guys are talking about! ;D :P

user136984

Anyway...

user136984

Goodnight guys, I'm off to bed now! :)

Seth

@ByteCommander Things have worked just fine for a long time :)

Virusboy

@seth you say that now

Seth

22:30

meaning?

Virusboy

Murphy's Law

ByteCommander

Wow - a few minutes gone and that box pings like crazy...

Seth

@Virusboy I fail to see the relation..

Virusboy

anything that can go wrong will

ByteCommander

Oh, the star spam is gone!? Did a mod delete them?

terdon

22:31

@ByteCommander Yup, with great power come itchy fingers.

It wasn't me, but I would have also.

Cleaning up the star wall is part of our janitorial duties :)

ByteCommander

Nice. I once read somewhere that it wouldn't be possible...

That's why I looked so puzzled. ;)

terdon

@ByteCommander No, we can unstar things, no problem.

I don't unless it's the U&L chat room though.

ByteCommander

Sometimes very useful...

Just doing a simple Java challenge on codewars, but it refuses my solution. I don't see why? >:(

When I run it locally in Eclipse, it works like a charm...

Virusboy

Its Java, that's why

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hbdgaf

coding in java is like sacrificing a kitten for cross platform sort of compatibility... it's never a good idea.

Nathan Osman

22:45

^--- this

ByteCommander

I like Java.

You may hate me for that...

hbdgaf

oh i don't hate people that like java. i just think it's a bad execution of an idea.

ByteCommander

Is it really still so bad?

It was slow and stuff, but nowadays?

Nathan Osman

It's a very verbose language, to put it lightly.

ByteCommander

I believe it can compete with other languages in most areas.

What do you exactly mean with "verbose"?

Virusboy

22:48

its the black sheep of php

hbdgaf

@ByteCommander i don't hate it, but you have no idea how many things get shelf-ed because under load it doesn't perform. i answered a question years ago and emailed the help department from thinkorswim with an "it works", but the OP of the question was all "I have a beast rig, and I swear it chokes under load"

ByteCommander

And what has PHP to do with that now...?

Nathan Osman

@ByteCommander This:

class InternalNetworkIPv6RelatedButLikelyNotDHCPRelatedException;

Virusboy

java belongs in the same circle of hell as php

ByteCommander

@NathanOsman ;D

Never needed that one!

hbdgaf

22:49

I wrote Java in college once, but then I thought better of ever using it again.

ByteCommander

So what do you guys recommend to use both on Win and Ubuntu?

Nathan Osman

I've written some too (think Android) so I'm not totally uninformed here.

@ByteCommander Qt 5 and C++11 :)

Python and PyQt5 otherwise.

Can't go wrong with either of those.

Bonus: they run on OS X too.

ByteCommander

I never touched Qt and only have very basic knowledge on C++ due to my days programming an qfix SoccerBoard to serve as bobbycar car computer...

And you know my problems with Python... :P

Nathan Osman

Go isn't too bad for non-GUI applications.

hbdgaf

I hate it when I get a phonecall, and get dead air. Say "I'll call you right back" and the person on the other end doesn't hang up so their line goes straight to voicemail 3 times... like an idiot.

ByteCommander

22:52

Not even heard of Go to be honest. Only the board game...

Nathan Osman

It's a relatively new language.

But it's already gaining a lot of traction.

hbdgaf

Go is interesting, but not having enough traction for me yet. There's a library for everything in C++ or Python.

Nathan Osman

Docker and etcd are both written in Go.

ByteCommander

What I used to write was BlitzBasic. It's almost only for games though.

Nathan Osman

Go really shines when your application needs I/O performance.

But the thing that really makes Go appealing is the build environment. Dependencies are specified in the source code so you never need to do anything before building an application. The compiler fetches the dependencies for you.

And there are no shared libraries either. Just a single executable - it doesn't even depend on libc - it issues syscalls directly to the kernel.

So deployment consists of "copy executable and run".

The compiler can cross-compile to any supported architecture, so you could build the Linux version from Windows or vice-versa.

Instead of threads, Go uses goroutines, which are far more lightweight and literally nothing in the application blocks - file reads, socket I/O, you name it.

Nathan Osman

23:42

I think I've finally isolated the block of code that's causing my Qt app to work incorrectly on ARM.

Seth

Anyone see any use in keeping this?

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Q: What advantage does a GPU card offer in an Ubuntu laptop?

The time has come for me to buy a new laptop. I use Ubuntu (well, Kubuntu) and nothing else. Out of my working hours I use my laptop to watch movies and sometimes I have to do video conversions with ffmpeg (yeap, a standalone compilation because I do NOT want avconv, but please don't start flame ...

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I think it has the potential to be a useful question but I am not sure it's worth the work.

Nathan Osman

I think it could be useful.

But I agree, it needs a bit of work.

Maybe something more like "what functionality in Ubuntu will I be unable to take advantage of on a laptop without a discrete GPU?"

Seth

yeah that sounds better. But we'll need someone familiar with the topic to do the work and I'm afraid that isn't me :/

Nathan Osman

It isn't really me either.

I'm almost on the brink of solving this bug.

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