Another switch I'm waiting for is Firefox. They'll probably start seriously working on Wayland support after they'll swap Gecko for WebRender engine.

See:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-fps-how-webrender-gets-rid-of-jank/ [External Link]
https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki [External Link]

Wine and Firefox are two huge ones. After they are done, I'll probably switch to Wayland proper (if they won't work before well with XWayland that is).

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Quoting: ShmerlThat's great, especially Wayland plans.

This is a thing that I haven't seen talked about a whole lot, but I am so glad Ubuntu dropped Mir. Everyone talks about them dropping Unity for Gnome, but frankly that doesn't matter much. There's lots of those things and one more or less is no biggie.
But Wayland is the kind of infrastructure it's so much better if there's only one of it, and going forward it could matter quite a lot to Linux gaming that we didn't end up with both Wayland and Mir making things complicated.

100%. I don't care about their Unity to Gnome switch, but dropping Mir for Wayland is a very good development. If Ubuntu would have kept Mir rift, applications like Wine would have been bogged with the need to implement another huge backend. Now they can focus on Wayland only and progress faster.

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That's great, especially Wayland plans.

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Tex Murphy style indeed. I hope GOG release is coming as well. Right now it's Windows only there.

Quoting: GuestI'm more surprised that an icculus port is only available via steam. OK, likely not something he can influence.

Bad surprise it still is :(

Did he explain why?

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Not sure how much of that effort comes from GOG. Whether to release for Linux or not depends more on developers doing it.

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Quoting: GuestMesa 17.2, Ubuntu 17.10

I assume that's already using llvm 5.0? Then it must be some other bug, than one affecting UE4 in Everspace for example.

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Quoting: GuestI can confirm that on AMD it works until you want to open the first door and then it goes all black (as described before). You can even go back and the "lights" go on again.

Did anyone fix this or know the reason?

What Mesa version?

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Another suggestion - in the trends, it would be useful to show total number of users in the tooltip for each point. Otherwise it's quite hard to evaluate what percentage really represents.

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Quoting: eridanired123Apparently [bRyzen has been a success for AMD[/b], trends show that users are slowly changing their preferences (very slowly). In the GPU department, behaviour is quite similar. Screw you nVidia!

I expect AMD GPUs adoption rate to accelerate next year, if AMD will sort out availability issues. Mesa is close to getting ahead of Nvidia blob in most aspects (Vulkan still needs stronger push).

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@liamdawe: in the trends section, color bars above the graphs (map) are a bit hard to read, because they just show a thin color outline around a gray rectangle. It would be way more readable as solid color.

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