bassmadrigal |
01-04-2018 11:02 PM |
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Originally Posted by ReaperX7
(Post 5802176)
Yet how many times is this said over and over and continues to fall on deaf ears, especially with the nvidia-driver and amd/ati drivers?
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Why should OS developers hold their OSes back because manufacturers don't support modern versions of software? Should Slackware still have Xorg at 1.17 so users are able to use the Catalyst software that AMD EOLed? Up until the 17.30 release of amdgpu-pro (released JUL 2017), AMD's proprietary drivers didn't even work with Xorg 1.19 (NOV 2016). Should Slackware users been held back because of that? Especially considering the fact that newer Xorg/mesa/kernel combos with the open source amdgpu driver tends to have better performance than the closed source driver anyway. I imagine most users who want the performance out of their cards are gamers and not professionals who would benefit from the extras the pro driver enables... but if they are professionals, they probably shouldn't be using a development version of Slackware anyway.
What so many a few people seem to be missing is -current is development for Slackware, not a rolling release for your desktop. All the things in -current are supposed to work with all the other things in -current and 3rd party software is not taken into account during its development. Hopefully your favorite piece of software will catch up and provide support by the time the development of Slackware is over and the next stable release is put out, but if it isn't, you really should be blaming the developers of that software, not Slackware.
You do realize that Nvidia developers have the same access to the same code that we do and they are able to tailor their code to work with the newest versions before the releases are put out, right? It's not like Nvidia developers have no clue that the 4.14 kernel was coming... there was over a month of RCs for them to prep their driver for. And then for the point releases, there's RCs of those too. The fact that they can't keep up is on them, not on Slackware.
This is like telling the mesa devs they shouldn't be pushing out newer versions that rely on newer versions of Xorg, because Distro X doesn't have a new enough Xorg to run the newest mesa. So, should development of mesa stop because of that?
Get over yourselves! If you're going to run a development version of any type of software, be prepared for things to not work. Especially when those "things" are binary, closed source programs/libraries/drivers.
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