Steam Survey 3 months in a row.

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Quoting: niarbeht2003 called, it's trying to get some of that Penguin Money.

Quoting: thykrTopware! The german scumbags who stole money from the honest Transcripted devs!

Do NOT buy anything from them! They are rascals! They were supposed to be bankrupted by now, but somehow they still exist!

Boycott Topware! Do NOT feed the german mafia!

So.... More information please? Lots of information is missing & everyone is capable of mistakes - was the motive behind that skirmish identifiable or was it a muddy battle?

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: GuestDon't buy it?

No shit.

Sarcastic angry or annoyed Liam articles are fucking fun to read. Thanks for saving us the trouble of getting this.

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Quoting: ShmerlBy that time, radv can be even better already. AMD developers are also considering stopping their current tedious pre-opensourcing review efforts, and instead complete radv with missing pieces. In the end, as long as result is working well and is open, everyone will be happy.

I, too, am considering forgoing AMDGPU and just using Mesa instead since that is the default in so many distributions anyway. Whatever is easier.

Depending on your use case AMDGPU can be superior at delivering stability if that's a issue in your current setup.

Nvidia blob has always acted kindof janky and given Linux a "second-world" or "second-class" feel to it, but since I moved to RX 480 support is rock solid.

There are minor setbacks and some games perform worse than others (Ark won't load at all) but I generally do about ~100 FPS @ 1080p, 360 FPS on CS:S and CS:GO, Gary's Mod isn't very optimized and dips but I can't recall dropping below 55-60 FPS on anything.

You do kindof want to be using the latest MESA-git and xf86-video-amdgpu (Post July 2016) equivalent in your distro -- and that's about it.

I got bills to pay before I buy a second RX 480 for my girls rig, her nVidia 970 does what it needs to and has better stability via DVI-D anyways. (The major issue for me was that the NVidia doesn't really play nice with HDMI as the only connection -- you'd think this would be a major oversight as Steam Machines are probbaly 100% HDMI? Weird.)

While the GTX 10XX are outselling the RX 4XX I suspect that on Linux AMD will gain a fair marketshare in the next year so long as people's upgrade cycle coincides (Maybe 30-40% AMD?) A couple years from now I would love to see 70% AMD, or a open source nvidia driver -- thats the only thing that will make me agnostic again to the whole GPU war.

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What a glorious day for Canada + Linux, and therefore the rest of the world.

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Quoting: crt0mega

Quoting: ElectricPrismIn fact I did just that earlier this week and expressed how I kicked $800 of Nvidia to the curb in favor of MESA and RX 480 – because it's important to me that they know what people like me are doing and how we're thinking so they can better service us and we can service them with $$$.

I'm still waiting for Vega to replace my aging HD7970 :D

And maybe me too depending on the performance difference of Polaris and Vega.

Polaris has turned out to be a good time to switch to Red Team for me.

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Quoting: ZapporFeral even fixes things directly in Mesa! https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e33f31d61f5e9019f8b0bac0378dfb8fd1147421 [External Link]

Quoting: lordheavyAnd radeon vulkan support just got merged :D

Non conformant though, but the seem to fix things damn fast!

Just be sure to thank them when you see them pop into a Reddit thread and express your appreciation - that shit really does go far in developer world.

In fact I did just that earlier this week and expressed how I kicked $800 of Nvidia to the curb in favor of MESA and RX 480 -- because it's important to me that they know what people like me are doing and how we're thinking so they can better service us and we can service them with $$$.

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You get to run from this cannibal and kick him in the face all while trying to avoid muder/rape or whatever.

If you have a bunch of friends playing with you you can laugh at the super cheese of the moment like I did.

The burning file prison box was confusing as all hell though sadly, took like 20 minuets to get past that.

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So basically Metal Gear Solid 2 + Twisted Metal. Awesome.

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I've never seen these store links before. Of course it makes sense that buying direct would be a great way of putting the cash directly into their pockets.

I really dont feel like bookmarking them in amongst hundreds of other bookmarks. Is this the kind of thing that could get a page or go into the sidebar?

Maybe a page "Linux Stores" or something.

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