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Linux distros like Mint, Debian, and Ubuntu LTS that ship "stable" Mesa graphics drivers aren't shipping stability at all. They're shipping headaches for gamers in the form of severely outdated drivers that lead to instability and bug reports for issues that were solved months ago...
@killyourfm This is one I just don't get - we should be at a stage now where people can just always take the latest drivers, at least on Ubuntu. Windows users don't have to think about this at all.
@mdiluz What's UTTERLY baffling is these distros seem happier to provide updated proprietary graphics drivers than they do open-source ones...
Sidenote: this is good news https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/kernel-version-selection-for-ubuntu-releases/47007
@killyourfm yeah. Though tbh it does feel great to finally be beyond the stage of needing oibaf or whatever ppas just to get an opengl 4.5 context...
Maybe the open source Nvidia kernel module will improve this too.
Tbf I'm a little too far from the problem to really understand why it's all still hard to do. I assume it is, there's a lot of great ppl working on it. Doesn't stop it being so frustrating though :(
@killyourfm @mdiluz it's not bafling at all if you see the difference in performance and features. Also you're ignoring some facts. Why don't you ask them, why are things the way they are?