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Re:Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retro... by tetris11 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:14AM (#37566592)
It could be rendering directly to the framebuffer (e.g. `mpv playthisfromtty.mp4`).

Or they mean they used pure X (e.g. `startx`) and added a decent v-sync compositor such as picom.

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Re:Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retro... by solene on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:31AM (#37643491)
it's directly using the framebuffer without X or Wayland involved. This is possible because of the SDL backend
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