And that last comment of yours is totally not trolling ...
Seriously just read yourself back here . Kindly "an evil non binary" ...

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Quoting: stankalovichI want to believe, but its probably going to be all Intel and Nvidia and really just going to be a marketing gimmick. If they really cared they would've made an AMD based product by now.

Doesn't the AMD graphics still require binary firmware blobs? Fairly certain they're still not 100% open source. And there is always the microcode.

To answer your question simply put let's summarize it that way.
1 ) When Linux users buy hardware they have a tendency to buy at the top tier of our catalogue
2 ) Being a bit less cagy and parting ways with the old days of putting patents on everything give us good image
3 ) Said newly acquired good reputation seems to sway linux users towards us rather than Intel
4 ) How about we very slowly point for point cater to them to see where it goes and if the trends keeps on making us money.

In other words AMD just like Intel is playing the incrementalism game ... Fine let's play it then. And Well AMD is just playing a faster incrementalism game than Intel is ... let's reward them then .

At least that's how I see it.

Reasons I stay away from AMD.

1) Their chipsets are still crap. Everytime I use an AMD system, it has random issues. Like USB randomly dying until I pull out the CMOS batery.
2) nVidia simply has better cards/features. For example, G-Sync is supported on Linux, Freesync is still questionable last time I looked it up.

I try to switch it up every few builds or so, but keep running into these problems. I really wish we had an alternative. RISC-V have all the Spectre issues?

Edit: To be fair, my previous server build was an Opteron, and it was pretty decent, though I think I still had some weird issues with the chipset. My current server build is an AMD FX 8120, and while it's had some random issues where I'd reboot it remotely and it'd just hang somewhere, I'm not sure if that was the kernel or not, because I have downgraded to the non-backport kernel in Debian Stretch and it seems to no longer have the freeze during reboot problem.

Fair enough but all this doesn't change my original point which was trying to give you AMD bosses point of view.
Which is

"We've been absent in various places because Intel was gathering lots of goodwill even on the server side of things , while these days they got cocky and everybody is just about fed up with how they handle various things let's try and score some points"
And that attitude led to AMD being a little bit less "patent troll" and a bit more cooperative with the Linux fundation and various open source projects. All I'm saying is let's reward their effort after all they at least try to listen, there is somebody in their soldiering at least a little bit for us. (now same goes for Intel mind you ... problem is said soldier at Intel seems to have a hard time to talk reason into his Captain's head ... ) ;)

TL : DR
-Yes there are still some stuff from AMD that's a bit propietary but they are opening up their code real fast..
-Meanwhile Intel is still doing all kinds of weird shit , pushes microcode BS that even Motherboards designers are fed up with so on and so forth ...

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Quoting: stankalovichI want to believe, but its probably going to be all Intel and Nvidia and really just going to be a marketing gimmick. If they really cared they would've made an AMD based product by now.

Doesn't the AMD graphics still require binary firmware blobs? Fairly certain they're still not 100% open source. And there is always the microcode.

To answer your question simply put let's summarize it that way.
1 ) When Linux users buy hardware they have a tendency to buy at the top tier of our catalogue
2 ) Being a bit less cagy and parting ways with the old days of putting patents on everything give us good image
3 ) Said newly acquired good reputation seems to sway linux users towards us rather than Intel
4 ) How about we very slowly point for point cater to them to see where it goes and if the trends keeps on making us money.

In other words AMD just like Intel is playing the incrementalism game ... Fine let's play it then. And Well AMD is just playing a faster incrementalism game than Intel is ... let's reward them then .

At least that's how I see it.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI'm not sure how the agenda is hidden, it's pretty plain. When contributors, even of software that isn't directly part of the source code (like the SC controller that just integrates with the kernel) decide to stop developing because of it.

This just this . I'm sorry to all the nay sayers and doomsday announcers but it's been a solid 23 pages now and none of you have brought on the table any valid arguments wahtsoever. Heck even the REAL subject of the news isn't discussed because "oh my god a CoC has been adopted" ...
A CoC that need I remind you has been adopted by a ton of other software and hardware project leaders companies and fundations and have received the same critcisms from the people it's supposed to defend and yet the people that are supposedly defended and empowered by it keep on repeating that it's wording is too vague for its own good but that on the other end the paranoia surrounding having a code of conduct needs to stop.

How in the entire hell is "the agenda" hidden here . Looks like an open conversation to me and not just at the Linux fundation level but at Microsoft Headquarters , at Google Headquarters, at Apple headquarters , heck even at Thyssenkrupp (yep even the software branch of a metalurgy group known to develop its own software for its own puprposes adopted that template some few years back (in 2013 to be precise ) ... and I sure as all fuck don't see Thysenkrupp going down the drain ... heck if anything their division that speciliazes in elevators is giving their days of old rival OTIS a run for their money lately ... )

So with all that in mind given that we are the very first ones to critize it in the first place and that the conversation has been fairly opened about just about everywhere can FINALLY stop the conspiracy talk yes or no ????

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Quoting: stankalovichI want to believe, but its probably going to be all Intel and Nvidia and really just going to be a marketing gimmick. If they really cared they would've made an AMD based product by now.

Or you know they stick with Intel but try their damndest to reason with them.
Like for example what they did with their own custom UEFI's lately getting rid of some microcode stupidity and not letting the processor do its thing.
In other words their processors are forced to operate in a certain way. Which dismayed intel greatly but when they saw sells numbers on System 76 financial reports made them reconsider their stance ...

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Quoting: DuncAnd overall, the whole thing's maybe just a tiny shade too big. But that's subjective; there are people here using the XBox Duke. That thing's gigantic. :)

I thought so when I received my first one two years ago but now I actually end up in various case scenarios with some few games where I wish for it be a bit more spacious atually. (My thumbs are insanely long almost have longer thumbs than your average pianist ... therefore my thumbs never trully are in a resting postion and when I play long sessions of Geometry Wars 3 I end up feeling it more than it should really )

Geometry Wars 3 has a setting where both touchpads are considered the joysticks, so firing and moving are done through swipping on the touch pads . And after three hours of play my thumbs are crying for help it shouldn't be the case .

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Quoting: ArehandoroI have a Steam Controller and Xbox 360 ones from when I owned the console back in the day. I do believe the Steam Controller is better, especially for its programmable features, but at the same time it's its biggest flaw. Most of the times I just want it to work out of the box, not dedicating time to test what's the best way of controlling a game, and in that the xbox controller excels.

Maybe, if I was a competitive gamer, my experience would be different and I would re-map buttons constantly seeking those extra milisec that would give me an advantage.

I am a southpaw and not only I use my mouse with the left hand, the left button on the mouse seems so much more intuitive than the right button for "main" functions, and to me the steam controller looks so much like a mouse, that I can't stand the steam default of using the right button as the mouse 1 button. I switch it everytime, and steam is bugged and sometimes switches it back for no reason. Also, I strongly disagree with most default configurations for joysticks, so all together, I would remap everything anyway -- specially for complex games full of shortcuts like X: Rebirth, Total Wars and a couple RPGs.

But you're right, it is a huge amount of work. Sometimes it takes me 2 hours just to iterate back and forth from the game to sc-controller and get the configuration just right. It's kinda fun, but it's too long.

On the the other hand when developers try their hand at making a default mapping they often times show just how much they are used to use other controllers and didn't take the time to use the steam controller in full.
Seriously the steam controller offers you so many options that often times its biggest draw back is how much it looks like a regular controller. Lots of people are trying to fit a regular control scheme into it rather than trying to take advantage of its features. Its somewhat dismaying at times...

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThe ABXY buttons are fucking small -- very annoying.

Oh, Jeez! I didn't want to bring that up, but since you did ... they are like very loose Skittles or Chiclets gum sitting down there. Like you said, very loose, and VERY annoying!

Maybe is it because I have hands with real elvish finger (my fingers are really thin) but personnaly I do like those buttons a lot they are well placed just the right size everything falls perfectly in place with the steam controller.

Somebody said that on the other hand the surface of the touchpads was not ideal and on that front I do agree I bought touchpad stickers that make that surface a bit smoother and I never took em off

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Steam Controller user over here as well. And in terms of "rumble" I vastly prefer the barebones sensation of those haptic motorts that Valve decided to use . Heck some games have made some very clever use of those haptic motors and showed how nuanced they can be when used properly. Sooo for me I stick to using the Steam Controller most of the time and every now and then there is that one game that I can't see myself playing with it and I'll go back to good old PS4 controller . PS 3 was okay when it was best thing around but with the PS4 one being around there is little reason to keep using the PS3 controller lately.

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Quoting: anewsonPro CoC wants to change the norms around abusive behaviour and language in the kernel dev community (which goes right up to Torvalds). Con CoC is worried this empowers moderators to exclude developers who don't share their ideological views. The former goal is laudible, and the latter concern is justified (eg Johnathan Haidt's work on academia).

This CoC simply codifies the powers Linux maintainers have had all along. The "Con CoC" crowd seem to have trouble understanding this basic fact. Could be because they'd rather just keep fighting the scary SJW cabal that keeps taking away their toys.

Nope.
Read the CoC.
It does not center on abusive behavior. It focuses on vaguely-termed abusive persons. It does not tell people not to write racist/sexist/etc. posts. It tells they can not be racist/sexist/etc. Wording is important. This potentially empowers moderators to expel people based on their own personal choices in other domains, apart from the linux kernel. This is an enormous difference.

That seemed like a significant objection. Except, scaine has made clear (plus I followed scaine's link and did read it) that you turn out to be completely wrong. As you were on the Canadian supposed "wrong pronoun-->jail" legislation. Whatever your sources are on this kind of thing, I think you need to start doubting them.

That's the thing they won't doubt their sources because their sources are legit brainwashing them all the time ...

Also for the record I blocked Dolus because plain simple

Manga = comics of japanese origin those are comics too , and european comics are comics too so once again the comics industry at large is indeed knowing an unprecedented golden age . The reason why Marvel and DC are going down the drain have nothing to do with them trying to be inclusive (and failing misearably at it) and has everything to do with all other bad practices.
(Bad practices that were already in place in the 90's and were so self evident and unbearable that McFarlane and friends decided to get the hell out of the two big ones and found their own publishing house Image Comics)
So from now on given that you have decided to wear eye lids and think it was a smart thing to do so will I . Except mine are only blocking you out...

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