Wayland sounds great, unlike Kristian who looks like being at the verge of collapse! I have been in that situation myself before. I think this guy needs a good vacation.
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Originally posted by elanthis View PostI
So yeah, it's frustrating. Knowing that someday "soon" the Linux graphics stack will be awesome and then someday "not longer after" the Linux desktop experience can exit the 1990's doesn't change how crappy the whole setup is right here today.
The Linux graphics stack has never come close to what Windows or MacOSX have had, and the more complicated the graphics cards have become the more we've fallen behind, We will always keep falling behind as long as people keep funding proprietary hw vendors and using binary drivers, who have no interest in progressing the commons in favour of just keeping the status quo on their hw.
Dave.
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Originally posted by airlied View PostWe will always keep falling behind as long as people keep funding proprietary hw vendors and using binary drivers, who have no interest in progressing the commons in favour of just keeping the status quo on their hw.
Dave.
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Note to whoever took the video - I'm honestly not interested in what Kristian (or any other speaker) looks like as much as I'm interested in their slides!!! Jeez, zoom out a little next time.
vast majority of people care about working feature rich solution that works in the present
And I would add that this not only holds true "globally" (all computer users) but also in the Linux community as well. *looks forward to this year's LGS results*
The only way to get people off blobs is a breaking API/ABI change. While change for the sake of change/breaking is obviously despicable, a breaking change that improves the architecture/performance/etc. IMO should NOT be stalled upstream just to cave in to the blobs. That's what distros are for.
My €0.02
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IMO the way to get people off blobs is to offer a sufficiently good out of box experience with the open source drivers so that most users don't bother installing a binary driver.
As an employee of a company which supports both open source and binary drivers, I would like to see as few breaking changes as possibleTest signature
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostIMO the way to get people off blobs is to offer a sufficiently good out of box experience with the open source drivers so that most users don't bother installing a binary driver.
As an employee of a company which supports both open source and binary drivers, I would like to see as few breaking changes as possible
most people don't require fast 3d. in their case opensource radeon driver is perfectly fine.
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