Ouch. That seems to be worse than it first read.

But well, mistakes happen, and I wouldn't blame it on one guy. What I'd question is the actual QA process involved there, such a major issue not caught during testing phases is very rare, especially for distributions as widely used as *Ubuntu.

I hope we get to know how that issue slipped through in the end, since that happening now after many years of basically flawless updates is quite surprising.

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I want to see how much NVK has improved since the last minor release.

Me too. But since nothing is in the release notes, probably not too much except for performance improvements / backend work (they did a lot of work on nak, and broke a lot of things on the way too :-D).

I had to go with the proprietary drivers again.. because I'm a sucker for a good RPG and wanted to continue my 1200 hour story from KCD1 (KCD2 was a slide show on mesa/nvk here).

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It just made the Nvidia driver (including the whole system) crash about 1.5 hours in. But until then it was very smooth.

Probably yet another driver oops by nvidia.

NVK sadly suffered from regressions in the latest versions for me (performance regressions and crashes in the nak rust code), but I will try it with DX11 and NVK later this weekend (it is not playable with DX12 on NVK, but we know that still needs work).

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I am really confused, that's something I'd expect on hotfix not just on experimental. I really don't know what's the purpose of the hotfix by now if those fixes don't come to hotfix (if they don't and, could be that I missed that).

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Quoting: bialyikarI wonder if they fixed the hopeless flashing of application elements or entire windows?
Can I install from some repo?

No idea yet, fedora didn't get it yet. But that made me actually switch back to NVK for a while. And I was surprised that I found it running more games which had issues in in DX11 in 24.1.x (KC:D and some others which were slide-shows) with the 24.2.x drivers. Though, DX12 games still mostly don't work for me or still are slide shows, that maybe will change over the next year or so though.

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Also depends on where you spend the money and how many hours are expected. In some European countries and south American countries, that's good pay for a part-time job, in some even for a full-time job.

In the US and most western European countries .. probably not.

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Damn. Just bought an 8bitduo ultimate because my steam controller broke. If it releases I'll get it anyway. I miss my steam controller (it was still better to hold than any other controller I had for my large hands), even though, the 8bitduo is a good controller.

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"we finally killed and replaced mutter"

oh no, didn't happen.

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Slow down there, I didn't even finish the first one yet :-D.

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Fair enough, if it's not asking every time you log on that's fine. Once a year or on any new install is very fair, and it's just a notification.

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