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Linux Graphics: Mesa, Wayland, and GPUs
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Mesa driver developers discuss expanding profiles and driver tuning for specific apps and games | GamingOnLinux
Developer Natalie Vock working for Valve has put up a discussion plan for improving app profiles and driver tuning for Mesa drivers. Currently, RADV (the AMD Vulkan driver) makes use of various app-specific profiles to tune various apps and games, but they're looking to make the whole system better and perhaps roll it out to more drivers.
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Sebastian Wick ☛ Sebastian Wick: Redefining Content Updates in Wayland
The Wayland core protocol has described surface state updates the same way since the beginning: requests modify pending state, commits either apply that state immediately or cache it into the parent for synchronized subsurfaces. Compositors implemented this model faithfully. Then things changed.
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ NVIDIA 595 Beta Driver Released with Better GNU/Linux Gaming Performance
NVIDIA announced the 595.45.04 Beta driver for GNU/Linux users in last week. This is the first release in the 595 series that includes new extensions, profile, and features for better performances for GNU/Linux gaming.
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Linux 7.0 Quietly Kills a 38-Year TCP Design Problem - AccECN Is Now On by Default [Ed: Seems to be slop]