Quoting: armageddon51Ok well I am using the default one coming with Mint. Confused, the opensource driver, which also can be use with Nvidia system, is made of different parts and one of them is called "nouveau" for Nvidia cards and for Intel, AMD is called MESA,right ?

The driver manager does not suggest any video driver at all for my system. So if I understand if I am using the opensource driver, I am already using MESA then. Go figure.

Consider Mesa an umbrella project and a collection of shared libraries and code for open Linux graphics drivers. Your system uses the radeon driver, whereas nouveau is used for Nvidia chips. I understand how this is confusing, especially as most Mesa-related news on sites like this tend to refer to AMD a lot.

Mint 18.1 provides the Mesa packages from Ubuntu 16.04.1, so the version is 11.2.0 I think. If you need to upgrade for better opengl support, you might want to check out that stable Mesa PPA @tuxintuxedo mentioned. I think it can be found here.

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If you want to upgrade to Mesa 12/13 on Mint 18, for now you'll need to resort to a PPA like the xorg-edgers one. This is risky and might break future OS upgrades (or worse) unless you know what you're doing. It seems like the next Mint point release just might bring in Mesa 13 as an optional update. That's still a ways off though.

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Quoting: wolfyrionThe bad thing is that I cant draw, so the warriors I imagine cannot come to life :(

Hey don't give up before you try. Doodling random stuff is pretty fun if you don't care about the result too much. You can always call it abstract or "naivistic" art. ;)

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I just started Dragonfall a few days ago, and so far it's all right. Based on what little I've seen, I'm not expecting anything as mind-blowing as Planescape Torment or FO2 were and still are. Good old Arcanum and the not-so-old Wasteland 2 definitely impressed me more as well.

Despite this I have a feeling I will not be too disappointed when I'm through. The game might not end up getting the "Favourite" label on GOG from me, but thus far I don't regret going ahead and buying Hong Kong as well. There's more text in HK you say? Awesome. So far I'm definitely enjoying the story and the atmosphere more than the IMHO slightly tedious fighting.

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Brave, brave sir Tux



(Quick Inkscape doodle based on the new avatar I drew a few days ago.)

EDIT: Fixed.

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Quoting: ShmerlIs there one for Sailfish? I can test it too. On a side note, it takes Jolla forever to open up SailfishOS UI, so I'm starting to contemplate a switch to Plasma Mobile (though it seems way less usable at present).

I meant I'll test the Android app. That's why I mentioned the compatibility layer. It takes Jolla forever to do anything and everything.

Oh, it seems Riot also provides a Linux desktop app built on electron. I'll give that one a try. Looks a lot like the Discord client.

EDIT: At first glance the Riot desktop client is not quite as slick as Discord, but it's not too bad. Now someone write a Discord bridge so I only need one chat app. :)

Yeah I know Discord's proprietary. Might just dump it if Matrix works out.

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HTTP is a protocol for (hyper)text transport, and there's a lot of existing code and libraries to reuse, so maybe it isn't the worst idea ever. Although they could have used one of the existing text chat protocols as a basis instead.

Anyone know a slick Matrix desktop client that's worth a try? There's a list of clients in alpha/beta on the Matrix site, but no comparison. I'll test the mobile client on my Sailfish phone, but seems like Android apps running on the the compat layer tend to drain the battery on this old thing.

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Quoting: MaelraneI hope that all those patches will fix my first attempt at a vulkan engine :)

Actually the main thread just crashes and it looks like a RADV problem :/

As great as radv is, you might want to test your engine on AMDGPU-Pro as well. No need to make your work even harder than it is. Although this particular bug seems like something you might be able to catch with the Vulkan debug layers.

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Quoting: natewardawgIt was actually set to "LTS releases only", this is what caused the machine to break. :(

edit: It was being upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04, she saw the button to upgrade and pressed it. Now she has an unusable machine. "Never" would have been the better option in this case. I've personally had LTS upgrades break machines in the past. So, IMHO it's better to either nuke and pave or, since I'm not there to provide support, to just not allow the upgrade at all.

Oh, right. Kinda defeats the point if Ubuntu actually recommends upgrades to all users like that. I think Mint just warns when the support is about to run out, and doesn't actually suggest upgrading as soon as a new release is available. And Debian is even more committed to the "do not fix what is not broken" mindset.

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Quoting: natewardawgAlso, I think from now on if I do put someone on Ubuntu I'm going to set the "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version:" to "Never".

If you can't be there to provide support, just stick to LTS releases (or Mint, or even Debian stable). Doesn't sound like these users need all the latest bells and whistles anyway. That'll give them years of safe security updates and not much else.

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