This myth that ARM is more efficient needs to die already. The ISA has almost no impact on efficiency, and especially no impact on gaming, where the GPU is the much more important thing.

Yes, there’s an addon for Firefox that gives you Netflix 1080p without any downsides, probably just by changing the user agent for Netflix.

Really shows how utterly useless the restrictions are.

I wouldn’t read that much into it. Valve isn’t Nintendo, I doubt they’d launch a new Deck without OLED

Writing graphics code in a unified model is quite a bit different from the conventional x86 model.

It isn’t. The difference is pretty small, and it’s just optimizations for when copies can be skipped and not a radical change in the approach of how rendering is done.

Intel would need their own equivalent to Metal if they wanted to do a similar move.

Not at all. If big-ish changes were required, they could be exposed as Vulkan extensions.

I don’t know enough about Vulkan to say if it’s compatible with this kind of approach

Of course Vulkan, the graphics API used on all modern phones except Apple’s, supports using integrated graphics efficiently.

I was especially surprised to find that Gnome would turn the screen around correctly by itself. With KDE Plasma I had to set the correct screen orientation myself. And unfortunately Plasma also did not come with any on screen keyboard so it was effectively unusable.

You just need to use a distro that follows our upstream defaults - namely Wayland, and having the virtual keyboard Maliit installed by default - then everything will work out of the box with KDE Plasma too.

It is closed in the sense that all the ISO specs are closed - you have to pay a decent sum of money to see the specs, and you’re not allowed to just copy them and show them to people that haven’t bought access.

They are not closed like HDMI though - if you implement them, copy constants from the specs into the Linux kernel for example, that’s fine. Having actually open standards like Wayland would be a lot better though ofc…

Not 30%, it’s 30g or 5% lighter!