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From The Linux Perspective: What I Am Most Looking Forward To In 2019
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Originally posted by Vasant1234 View PostYes, developers are forever busy porting form gtk+2 to gtk+3 to gtk+4.0. Same with QT toolkit.
No commercial vendor is ever going to port their propriety applications to this ever changing GNU/Linux desktop which represent < 2% split over 10 different versions.
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Originally posted by L_A_G View PostDefinitely nice to see AMD's FreeSync code hitting mainline, albeit quite a bit later than originally expected in a heavily re-factored and thus more cross-vendor usable form. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I genuinely applaud them for going along with it, but it seems like that's become a theme with AMD's major additions to the DRM codebase.
Still, it makes me genuinely curious as to what's next as AFAIK that was the last really major thing on their Linux todo list. Are we going to see more performance improvements, additional Vulkan features being added quicker after the spec is finalized their and/or that long awaited GUI configuration utility similar to what's on Windows?
Intel drivers on the other hand are rock solid and just work day in and day out. I use Arch Linux, I use the testing repo, I'm already running Linux 4.20, I update to newer software versions regularly, and I've rarely experienced any major bugs with Intel GPU drivers.
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Originally posted by sandy8925 View Post...
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L_A_G - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91880
The long saga of the R9 390. There was a brief time in the middle of last year where it worked fine. Afterwards support was swiftly broken, and new problems arose (blank screen after suspend and resume - old trick, new dog). It's still broken on Linux whereas the Windows driver works fine - so it's not some rare hardware defect.
Maybe some AMD GPUs work well with the Linux drivers - almost everything else I've tried has been a buggy broken mess and still woefully lacks in terms of feature support compared to the Intel GPU drivers.
I spent a lot of time, effort and had a lot of hope that AMD would come through - all for nothing.
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Originally posted by sandy8925 View PostMaybe some AMD GPUs work well with the Linux drivers
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Originally posted by sandy8925 View PostThe long saga of the R9 390. There was a brief time in the middle of last year where it worked fine. Afterwards support was swiftly broken, and new problems arose (blank screen after suspend and resume - old trick, new dog). It's still broken on Linux whereas the Windows driver works fine - so it's not some rare hardware defect.Last edited by L_A_G; 04 January 2019, 06:32 AM.
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Originally posted by sandy8925 View PostMaybe some AMD GPUs work well with the Linux drivers
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