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not my video, but Battlefield V on Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-c-Wa5FVE

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I remember the drivers GUI panel having an option for "Balanced", "Best Quality", "Best Performance."

Is that...

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I've been reading more from the thread: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archiv...er/198592.html



Jarkko,...

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^ I hope not. I'd hate to see Linux segregated over bullshit external forces like this.

This is analogous to telling professional ball players...

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I think we're losing sight of what's important here.

This isn't just about the f-word, SJW, etc. This is detrimental to the codebase because...

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What's even more upsetting is that it's coming from Intel and they're already fucking polluting the kernel with their mitigation bullshit.

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It's this exact set of patches that would have triggered Linus of yore. To which the proper response would have been, "What the fuck is this shit?...

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Agreed, it took all of how many minutes for him to think of that? And it's light years a better solution than this joke hugs shit.

This is...

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As someone with dual 144hz FreeSync monitors, I laughed and then I cried

From what I remember, it only works on a single monitor plus a bunch...

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Wow, deadline is killing. I've been using mq-none on my 860 EVO RAID0 for a couple months and my system has been flying. I'm gonna revisit deadline and...

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Yeah I find that to be the funniest part, they just want to be able to do ./native_binary and have that satisfaction. To me, that's what Steam Play has...

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They're gladly getting my bux right now. I just want my games playable on Linux at native or near-native performance.

DXVK/Wine/Steam Play...

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Confirming 1.9.2 is finally released via their PPA, just ran apt update and pulled in the latest packages.

13 packages can be upgraded. Run

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"so Linus, how did you find out about these performance issues"

"A little birdie told me..."...

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It’s a real shame how bad that 4.19 LTS kernel is for AMD gpus. Hoping the fixes make it in eventually. 4.18 has been rock solid....

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Finally had a chance to put together build scripts for 64-bit and 32-bit Mesa drivers if anyone's interested.

It should work for all Linux...

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I see, thanks for clearing that up....

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It was only three days ago that researchers announced 7 more attacks. Didn't see it covered here this week.

Spectre, Meltdown researchers...

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Wow! That was quick, great work Michael thanks. Yesterday I finally remembered to turn off ad-blocker and have been doing my part to make sure you get...