Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: ScooptaI would have expected that, at least with vsync and OpenGL, when the buffer swap returns that's when the frame has been displayed.

You'd think so. But, as far as I can make out, what Alen's saying is that this isn't necessarily the case. Or at least, relying on this method for timing is misleading.

Yeah that's what he seems to be saying which just seems weird to me. I could understand it with vsync off but with vsync on if the buffer swap doesn't return when the frame is displayed then when exactly does it return? It blocks until vblank so unless it's returning late but that would then imply it's returning after the buffer swap has already occurred. Either way it's an interesting problem.

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I would have expected that, at least with vsync and OpenGL, when the buffer swap returns that's when the frame has been displayed.

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Can we please kill off snappy already. Canonical needs to stop making their own standards. Everyone else has decided to use flatpak. It would be really nice not to have two universal package managers. They've pretty much dropped Mir because of their switch to gnome but snappy seems to be sticking around.

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I personally found this visual novel kind of boring and dry when I played through it.

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As much as Steam machines and SteamOS don't really interest me personally I'm really glad to see Valve supporting it

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Skyrim? Maybe? No seriously please? Bethesda why you do this?

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Time to install and backup all my games that could potentially fall under this. I doubt they'll actually forcefully uninstall them from people's machines but I don't want to take a chance. Especially seeing as most of them are probably DRM free anyway. I should actually test that but if I had to take a guess they probably are.

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Quoting: devnullWeird thread, half of you are slamming this because of Optimus o_O I had an Asus gaming laptop.. technically still do just it's in pieces after the thing overheated so bad it almost caught fire. It did however come with a GTX 980m, so optimus. I don't know if you're against Optimus as a whole or just the way it was done in Linux? The tech itself is quite handy even in a desktop. Biggest PITA was some boneheaded move by distros to disable indirect rendering and remove remote X by default (*cough* ubuntu *cough*). Completely broke VirtualGL.

The drivers though have come a LONG, long way. I'd avoid this laptop for the simple fact it's Intel. The E485 looks interesting from a corporate user perspective though. Dunno about performance nor Linux compatibility.

I don't even have a problem with Optimus. I have a problem with nvidia cards requiring a proprietary driver for good performance. Honestly Optimus might be a PITA but I think nvidia is in general.

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Quoting: Tiedemann

Quoting: ScooptaI really don't like most of system76's stuff because they like Nvidia which means open source drivers are a no go. They also don't use coreboot both of which are things I like to see in a laptop.

I do agree that it would be best to ditch Intel/nvidia/UEFI/whatever else crap we have but I wouldn't exactly say they're acting very friendly towards Intel and AMI for example. It seems that disabling IME was just a tiny bit of what they have planned:

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They're not being friendly but I do like a complete open source stack on laptops that ship with Linux. Then again I do take a rather hard stance with FOSS anyway. The only proprietary software I allow on my desktop besides games is my motherboard's UEFI which I can't exactly get rid of and I don't know of any motherboard OEMs that ship coreboot. Well I suppose my GPU firmware as well but I use mesa for my driver.

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I really don't like most of system76's stuff because they like Nvidia which means open source drivers are a no go. They also don't use coreboot both of which are things I like to see in a laptop.

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