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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I remember I got this game as a present to my birthday. I was sad because I couldn't play it, I didn't have a PC for it (had an old win311 black/white PC). My aunt meant well... but didn't know about computers.

My parents got my neighbors to build me a PC which I can play it on.

I'll certainly buy the remastered version. Nostalgic, but I don't have the original anymore.

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There are a lot more important nvk improvements than this actually highlights (while some for D3D12 support are still missing, but more complex too). I like to see how much it's evolving with each release. Keep up the good work!

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Quoting: TactikalKittySo is it safe to stay with NVidia at this point or should I still consider buying an AMD card if I upgrade from the RTX 3070?

It's safe to say it's still better to buy AMD if you're on Linux. I have high hopes in NVK and Nova to get rid of the client-side proprietary implementation by Nvidia, but that's probably a few years down the road to be really in feature complete full usable and competitive state compared to proprietary.

That said, opening up the kernel drivers actually enabled all the open source development in mesa (GPU clocking and similar), it's a step in the right direction. So it was an important thing for open source they did, but it's still a safer bet to go with AMD in Linux. For now at least. I still hope they throw some resources behind the open source effort, but Nvidia was always slow on that end.

I for my part think I'll stay with Nvidia for a few more years as my rig perfectly gets my gaming needs done (3070 as well). And I hope to be able to switch to open source drivers in that time completely (currently, with open drivers DX12 support is still an issue with D3D12 and NVK and some DX11 games suffer from real performance issues, games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance are a real slide show, I think due to missing features or improper implementations on the end of KCD - the game is known to have really bad implementation :D). That all will take time and resources. But I look forward to the day.

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Quoting: Vortex_AcheronticYES! Finally!

I mean I am running nVidia + Wayand close to two years now. But the lack of explicit sync in certain applications made me sometimes switch to X11 just for these apps. While I feel like especially Gnome has long time abandoned X11 all together as the X11 experience is in fact even worse than Wayland without Explicit Sync on nVidia.

this has been my experience too. despite the weird glitches on wayland, logging into kde x11 feels like everything is stuttering. maybe its because i have 2 monitors at 2 different refresh rates. but the experience on wayland has been way smoother. just havent been able to play most of my games for last 8 months. im also hoping this fixes a weird issue where VLC stutters like crazy playing any videos

Gnome on X11 still has massive input issues with devices too simulating key presses (as naga or m907). That causes the render pipeline to stop for up to ~250ms causing massive lags using those side-buttons on X11. That issue does not exist on Wayland and was one of the reasons I really wanted to switch to Gnome Wayland (and that I'm so used to the workflow to press the meta key to swtich windows... that workflow just works so great for me that unless other desktops provide that I can't switch).

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