Wow! :D This looks absolutely amazing! Definitely gonna keep an eye on it. We need some good mmo's on Linux. :)

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Quoting: kyrios

Quoting: iiariI was originally a Solus backer, and I had hoped that Solus Budgie would become a kind of performance oriented Clean Linux for the masses. Without him there, I'm not exactly sure what Solus' mission is at this point or how they'll differentiate themselves from any other rolling system...

Solus (all flavors since they share the same core, toolchain, etc) is performance oriented in the sense that they use more aggressive settings that other distributions and that they borrow some of the optimizations made on ClearLinux. This is not going to change because the guy working on that Peter O'Connor (aka. sunnyflunk) is still there. It's funny how many people believe that only one guy does all the work alone (well there are plenty of them... on the dormant/discontinued distributions list of distrowatch because one or two people cannot develop, follow the updates and the vulnerabilities, handle bugs and resolves other problems, make roadmaps, etc... this 7/7 365 days a year meaning no holidays, no illness, nothing... it's just impossible).

Agreed. :) While Ikey did amazing work getting Solus off the ground, his vision for the project is shared by the entire core team, as well as the majority of the community. :) I, for one, have found a home in Solus, and have no intention of leaving any time soon. I find it sad how many people have been so quick to judge without knowing all the details of the situation.

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That moment when you go to check the sales page, and you already own most of the titles listed. #FeelsBadMan lol.

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Wow, this looks really neat actually! :) Thanks for sharing!

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Quoting: BTRE

Quoting: DorritHi all.

As far as I understand (from Wikipedia mainly) Mesa is sort of a translator between APIs and graphics drivers, is that it?
AMD's opensource drivers are included in the kernel, so a newer kernel will bring newer drivers. But what about Mesa? Is it updated independently?

There's a lot of similar names here so I'll try to give you a quick summary: Mesa is FOSS an implementation of various APIs (OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan etc) that also contains user-space drivers for various bits of hardware. The RadeonSI/amdgpu and radv user space drivers in Mesa are what I use every day to play games and render things correctly according to specs. There's several other drivers there correspond to other hardware like anv (which is intel's vulkan driver) as well as software drivers like llvmpipe. The Mesa project also has a close relationship with DRI [External Link] and other things used for graphics but for the sake of simplicity I'm going to gloss over the finer points. Things like game compatibility, hangs and poor performance are usually fixed with Mesa's drivers (the mailing list [External Link] is pretty interesting if you're into that sort of thing).

Now, there's a distinction to be made with the kernel-space drivers (ie AMDGPU) that provide the kernel with a means of correctly interfacing with the device and using its features. Again, I don't want to get too technical, but things like the recent addition of the display code allow for atomic mode setting and sound over HDMI on newer AMD cards. There's more that's in the kernel side of things like the DRM [External Link] which, for example, should add support for Freesync in Kernel 4.21/5.0 (whatever they choose to call it). The monolithic nature of the Linux kernel means that these types of drivers are usually loaded up as kernel modules and not in user space.

Both user and kernel space drivers are useful to get the most out of your card and, in AMD's case, even their proprierty AMDGPU-PRO user space drivers use the AMDGPU kernel drivers as well. I know it's confusing because of all the "amdgpu" and variants thereof but the bottom line is that you need both a relatively up-to-date kernel and recent Mesa to get the best performance out of your card and use of features. I know that other, more technically-minded, users can give you a more complete answer and point out where I've oversimplified things too much but I hope that this summary has helped you understand things a little better anyhow!

That definitely cleared things up for me, so thanks for the easy to digest info! :)

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Might actually get me to play CS:GO again. :) Also, only an 800MB update? Idk why, but I was expecting at least a couple Gigs.

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tbh, I'd almost forgotten about this game. I figured it was one of those sorta interesting ideas that would end up not really going anywhere. Glad to see it's still being updated. :) Might actually have to buy it one of these days.

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Really interesting concept! :) I'll keep an eye on it for sure.

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I tried an early alpha build of this game a few years before it released on Steam. It looked promising, but in no way was it worth $40 yet. It might be better now, but I still think they priced it too high. I'm glad to see them address the issue to some degree at least. :)

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Quoting: rick01457I took a screenshot of a zoomed in version of the picture and am now pretty certain that I have no idea what it is.
There are palm trees and there are strange ancient glyphs/art chiselled in to stone. I suppose it could somehow be Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Palm trees and glyphs in stone makes me think of GTA5... lol. Fat chance of that happening though.

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