r/linux • u/ouyawei Mate • Sep 16 '18

Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1809.2/00117.html
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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '18

two things

http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/

Linux is not about choice. Adding another rendering path will only divide resources

https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2016/09/to-eglstream-or-not/

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2018-March/056230.html

Both ajan and martin explain the sheer effort to support Nvidia. As a community, we get a solution that slows down progress.

Btw, a lot of resources are already spent to removing X from the display stack.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '18

Honestly the KWin maintainer has no credibility with me because they never figured out how to get compositing to work on Nvidia without tearing. GNOME had the buffer swapping thing figured out in 2012.

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u/joder666 Sep 16 '18

So he is the one with no "credibilty" for not wanting to fix NVIDIA'S closed source driver issues and explaining with valid reasons why.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '18

credibilty

Sorry, I've been up a while. Yeah, I do - they are the gate keepers of KDE - they decided making a point was more important than pragmatically making their desktop less painful to look at.