leopold
Falkon. It's the only web browser I can think of that still has PPAPI. Maybe Konqueror and Angelfish also do? Would have to check. Either way, these browsers all kinda suck and obviously any browser you'd want to use has dropped support, as I already conceded. Ruffle works in most modern web browsers, Flash does not.
I just didn't really consider that necessary for strictly preservation purposes. All you need is an archive of SWF files you can download like flashpoint and software that can launch them. Flash Player and Ruffle are both perfectly suitable for this.
Kubuntu is also semi-annual, but LTS releases only come every two years. Regular releases have a year and a half of support.
my experience with it is that it performs significantly better than the official Flash Player
It never occurred to me before reading this comment that there actually is a use case for the execute permission. To me it was always just this annoying thing I have to do whenever I download an executable which I didn't have to do on Windows.
I very much don't care for ElementaryOS, but I really don't think it's fair to paint it as "Ubuntu painted up to look like MacOS". It's not just GNOME with some extensions. They made a whole desktop environment and suite of applications for their distro. That's a ton of work. I think any distro that does that deserves some amount of respect.
I have found no such instances. Software which is only officially packaged as deb will usually be unofficially repackaged on the AUR regardless.
Most of my info comes from this post: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-holiday-update.html
Performance boost isn't Vulkan-only. GSP reclocking benefits everything, Vulkan or otherwise. NVK is strictly a Vulkan driver, but Zink, which implements OpenGL on top of Vulkan, currently has better performance when used with NVK than the old OpenGL driver, so it can also be considered to improve performance across the board. Right now it's a pain to set up tho, since it's not ready for prime time quite yet. Can't really help you there, since I don't have Nvidia hardware. The Collabora guys say they want it to be in Fedora 40, which means NVK should start showing up in distros by next April. It'll probably be much easier to test things out by then.
While NVK is indeed Vulkan-only, it also isn't, thanks to Zink, which is a Gallium3D implementation for Vulkan. Gallium3D implements OpenGL, among other things. NVK + Zink has already been reported to be substantially faster than the old Nouveau Gallium3D driver.
you mean right now or in the future? because right now, forget about it. it's substantially better than it was before, but performance is still far behind proprietary drivers. it can do 3D, but don't expect the latest and greatest to work well. older games are much more likely to work well.