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Thanks for taking the time to reply, Dr Valdés. |
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Unfortunately, I would like to game now and then, and I wholeheartedly |
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believe that the GNOME developers uncovered a spectacular cache of drugs |
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just before abandoning the perfectly functional, fast GNOME 2 for whatever |
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they call a desktop now. Which is why I went back to KDE, after being a |
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GNOME advocate. |
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But to each their own - if GNOME 3 makes all 7 of their users happy, that's |
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good enough. |
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-d |
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On July 23, 2018 21:22:05 Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 8:37 PM Davyd McColl <davydm@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Dr Valdés, I'd really like to know more. Are you using a compositor; what |
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> desktop environment? |
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> I use GNOME 3.24.2, with gnome-shell (which uses a compositor). Also, I |
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> run Wayland, not "classic" X. |
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> If I had had the positive experience you speak of, I would adopt Nouveau in |
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> a heartbeat. Nvidia has clearly shown their lack of interest in the Linux |
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> community by shunning higher console resolutions, leaving a display port |
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> blanking bug unresolved for about 2 years and haphazardly fixing bugs with |
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> features reported to be working on miscellaneous branches of the driver, |
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> unreleased to the unwashed masses (read up about Vulkan support, esp vs |
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> Rise of the Tomb Raider). |
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> I do not play modern AAA games on Linux. Nouveau works with 2D |
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> acceleration and basic OpenGL, but I don't think it can handle something |
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> like Tomb Raider or Mad Max. |
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>> I would accept a framerate hit for an open-source driver. But rebooting |
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> my main machine daily is off the cards. If I wanted that, I'd use that |
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> other OS. I develop on that other OS, but my development machine can be |
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> rebooted any time. My home machine has shit to get done. |
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> Nouveau (in my experience) is rock solid and fast for desktop use. |
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> However, it doesn't work for gaming, AFAIK. |
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> Regards. |
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> -- |
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> Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés |
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> Profesor de Carrera Asociado C |
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> Departamento de Matemáticas |
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> Facultad de Ciencias |
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> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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