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[duby229]

Well, that's exactly what Plasma was all about. A group of KDE devs rolled Plasma because they wanted something better and now Plasma basically -is- KDE5....

[duby229]

I'm kinda sorry for being blunt, but not too much so...

Bottom line is AMD's proprietary drivers -ALL- suck ass badly. Some of the worst...

[duby229]

Well, that is a shame. Problem with ROCm is that AMD is the sole contributor. It's not part of some upstream project. The biggest reason why radv was...

[duby229]

yeah. reporting problems to amd is exactly just as equal as not reporting anything at all.

but of course it's really easy to talk to their...

[duby229]

almost entirely nonsense....

[duby229]

Regardless of whether I agree with you or not, I do appreciate all the hard work and effort AMD puts in to support linux. And I'm sure millions of other...

[duby229]

Much respect but, The fact that the kernel is upstream is the -only- reason the DAL code is in -any- kind useful condition as just one example. I would...

[duby229]

On windows you can override antialiasing from the radeon settings control panel. You can do it globally for all games, or even by profile for specific...

[duby229]

I can't say that makes sense. In that case, they don't have an "official" opengl driver, or modesetting driver, or framebuffer driver.... I...

[duby229]

Yeah, but if they did it would basically be blank.... The linux drivers just don't expose that much configuration. Hell, mesa doesn't even support overriding...

[duby229]

Yeah, it was and still is damn stupid. Radv was available shortly after specs were available, but it took AMD well over a year to release amdvlk and by...

[duby229]

if you're an amd user and you think stability is important, then that paradigm shift happened in 2007.

I expect it'll never happen at N...

[duby229]

Nice! Now mesa just needs to expose the ability to override antialiasing, although according to them that's not likely to happen. Someone outside of mesa...

[duby229]

except you forgot to say "on Windows"... not to mention that Intel is still by far the biggest gpu market share by far, even on Windows.......

[duby229]

Yeah, and also it's worth remembering nv.....
https://www.x.org/wiki/nv/

No 3d acceleration, severely obfuscated.... Even if this next...

[duby229]

I guess, I'll just have to wait and see, but I can imagine several scenarios for common breakage, Old mesa new kernel. switchable graphics, glvnd.......

[duby229]

did hell freeze over? somehow I really doubt it. I'd bet real money whatever the announcement is won't have any profound impact and the status quo will...

[duby229]

Yeah, you're definitely right about the CPU fan, pretty dumb. ...

[duby229]

Even so, gangs of people -recently- buying computers are going to have to rely upon a legacy mesa, which means over time it will diverge from upstream....

[duby229]

funnily enough, that 9600pro has gallium drivers so it will be unaffected....