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[shmerl]

Are there any plans to implement Vulkan backend for KWin in addition to OpenGL one?

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So far always releasable testing idea didn't really work out for Debian. Freeze periods of half a year feel really long.

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Yep, just tested. Nice improvement (closer to 3% in my case, but still). 2560x1440, Sapphire Pulse RX 6800 XT.

Without nggc:

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Mesa overaly is the way to go.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/...y-layer/README...

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I recently switched to RDNA2 card and sold my RDNA1 one to recover the costs But I can run some tests with the new one....

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Will it be flipped on by default eventually?

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Last time I tried the Wayland session with the latest Plasma, clipboard experience was completely borked (like it simply swallowed copying half of the...

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Shrug. Nvidia is going to be irrelevant for the Linux desktop, whether you ignore the trend or not. And it's a good thing. The less developers need to...

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I don't see why it wouldn't be a trend to low percentage. As above, Nvidia offers inferior support (features take decades to add), poor integration with...

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The trend....

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In some half assed and not functional manner. Once something like Firefox will work with the blob for video acceleration, then you could say it got better....

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And I already explained how it will work.

Longer term Linux users: AMD.
Newcomers from Windows with Nvidia: AMD on next hardware upgrade...

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Hardware trends in laptops are laggy in general to pick recent developments (Intel and Nvidia indeed had a lot of influence on that segment), but it's...

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Tons, from PRIME, vsync and what not to dma buf and the like. Blob will never be integrated because it's a blob. Good thing kernel developers don't tolerate...

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On the desktop? It will happen, the only relevance will be the influx of former Windows users. Still a sizable amount, but a minor percent of total desktop...

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Well, I think points are self explanatory. Nvidia + blob don't offer any benefits that AMD + Mesa can't offer and offer a ton of downsides in contrast...

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You can get a discrete AMD card in laptops too. No need for Optimus either - PRIME should work fine....

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The trend is the important part. It's constantly dropping. Think about why. And those reasons aren't going away....

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I have a laptop with AMD APU - works pretty stable for me. What is unusable about it? I'd take AMD APU over Nvidia garbage with Optimus any time....

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That's why I think Nvidia won't do anything about it (i.e. won't upstream the driver). Too small for them to care about competition. Which is good for...