Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
by shmerl on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:43AM
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RedHat and Valve do way more for Linux gaming than Canonical. So I agree with the above, Canonical's decisions aren't affecting Linux gaming that much.
Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
by jhasse on Thursday October 26, 2017 @03:03AM
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If that was the case, why doesn't Valve support Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, but Canonical's Ubuntu?
Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
by shmerl on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:01AM
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Because Valve assume majority of users are using Ubuntu or derivatives. Which doesn't contradict what I said above. RedHat developers contribute a lot to Mesa. Canonical isn't exactly known to do that.
Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
by jhasse on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:08AM
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If the majority of Linux gamers use Ubuntu, that means that Canonical has something to do with gaming on Linux ;)
Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
by shmerl on Thursday October 26, 2017 @01:42PM
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Something yes, but not improving it directly. Besides, Ubuntu proper isn't even the most used distro probably. Mint is likely more used.
My point is, those who work on Mesa (OpenGL / Vulkan) and Linux graphics stack have way more direct impact of Linux gaming (they are fixing bugs that affect games, improve performance, add new functionality and so on).
Fair point.
> What has Canonical to do with it? Neither "Linux", "Linux Desktop", "Linux Gaming" or "AMD graphics under Linux" are in any way tied solely to Canonical or what Canonical does. Again, am I missing something?
Ubuntu is the only official supported distribution by Steam and GOG (they also support Linux Mint, but it's based on Ubuntu).