This article makes me sick
A little deconstruction of your (as always) sickly optimistic article:
So here is my summary: there are SO many improvements, that my Radeon HD 4350 cannot play x264 with 720x476 resolution without judder, which was possible with my old Geforce 4 and the binary blob, and there are SO many improvements, that I still have to use OpenGL 2.1 with Mesa 8.0-devel (git-bd38459). Well, I bought a game console for games, screw 3D-Linux.
I know, there are many people working on it and I very appreciate it, and with gitstats I can see that they are working really hard around the clock and that there ARE more commits than ever to mesa, but the developers can't do magic and need much more time (I guess 5 years at least for my old card and in 5 years I will have a newer one, I am sure). So please stop being overly fanatic, enthusiastic and euphemistic (nearly complete aka not complete == totaly completed!1!!) about the "changes" in mesa, it makes me sick; e.g. OpenGL 3.0 can be used by 1-2 $new_intel_devices and most people still use about OpenGL 2.1, so don't always overgeneralize and talk about OpenGL 3.0 is the reality and it is so fantastic and awesome and blabla with a little disclaimer (if any) that this is hardware dependent. I don't know which drugs you are using, but I guess I need those too, to be causeless happy like you all the time.
A little deconstruction of your (as always) sickly optimistic article:
- New Hardware Support: If you want minimal support for your new card, have fun. For my old card, nothing changed and for you people with new cards: congratulations, your silicon may draw pictures.
- Overhauled VMware Driver: srsly? I don't know anybody who uses that, so I'm sure there are SO many rejoicing people out there, because of that feature. At least I am not one of those, so nothing changed.
- Video Improvements: I cannot remember exactly, but that was MPEG-2 only and still experimental, right? I did not have MPEG-2 problems before and I have none now, so nothing changed.
- Gallium3D State Trackers: yeah, Dx10/11 sure... but NOTHING uses that (-> wine? nope!), what else do we have? Some 2D acceleration, awesome. So nothing changed, right?
- LLVMpipe Enhanced: My hypothesis: nobody but developers use this, so nothing changed.
- Performance Improvements: $new_Intel_bridge (the only thing I read of in most of the last articles). Congratulations if you have such hardware, so basically, nothing changed for most people.
- Android Support: come on... who cares about telephones and other non-computers? Nothing changed for me.
- Many Other Enhancements: GLSL 1.3 being NEARLY there (so it is NOT, why do you even talk about it then?), and hundreds of thousands of billions of commits... yeah, but WHAT changed? As you fail to deliver some examples, nothing changed.
So here is my summary: there are SO many improvements, that my Radeon HD 4350 cannot play x264 with 720x476 resolution without judder, which was possible with my old Geforce 4 and the binary blob, and there are SO many improvements, that I still have to use OpenGL 2.1 with Mesa 8.0-devel (git-bd38459). Well, I bought a game console for games, screw 3D-Linux.
I know, there are many people working on it and I very appreciate it, and with gitstats I can see that they are working really hard around the clock and that there ARE more commits than ever to mesa, but the developers can't do magic and need much more time (I guess 5 years at least for my old card and in 5 years I will have a newer one, I am sure). So please stop being overly fanatic, enthusiastic and euphemistic (nearly complete aka not complete == totaly completed!1!!) about the "changes" in mesa, it makes me sick; e.g. OpenGL 3.0 can be used by 1-2 $new_intel_devices and most people still use about OpenGL 2.1, so don't always overgeneralize and talk about OpenGL 3.0 is the reality and it is so fantastic and awesome and blabla with a little disclaimer (if any) that this is hardware dependent. I don't know which drugs you are using, but I guess I need those too, to be causeless happy like you all the time.
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