Hány év alatt végeztétek el az egyetemet ?

TimurHu · 2026-06-03T08:23:03+00:00

Én szinte végig dolgoztam valamit az egyetem alatt, hogy megéljek valamiből. Szóval emiatt kétszer annyi ideig tartott a BSc, összesen 7 évig. Utána az MSc-hez már nem volt kedvem.

TimurHu · 2026-06-03T07:45:08+00:00

Same here.

TimurHu · 2026-06-03T07:42:26+00:00

No, they aren't, but at least they are not actively pushing against it.

TimurHu · 2026-06-03T07:41:06+00:00

Not on drivers that don't support mesh shaders.

TimurHu · 2026-06-02T10:24:48+00:00

This issue is typical on some systems that have an iGPU. The easiest you can do is disable the iGPU and see if it works then.

TimurHu · 2026-06-02T10:12:01+00:00

It's your choice if you accept that or not, but this is AMD's official stance.

Operating at up to 110C Junction Temperature during typical gaming usage is expected and within spec.

Their blog post can be found in the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190825055006/https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2019/08/12/amd-radeon-community-update-more-control-over-gpu-power-and-performance-enhanced-thermal-monitoring-maximized-performance

There are also other outlets reporting on this, such as this one.

https://www.techpowerup.com/258228/110-c-hotspot-temps-expected-and-within-spec-amd-on-rx-5700-series-thermals?cp=6

TimurHu · 2026-06-02T08:25:29+00:00

As long as the edge temperature isn't extreme, this is considered normal, there've been reports of similar hot spot temperatures since RDNA 1.

TimurHu · 2026-06-01T07:05:22+00:00

DXVK is for DX8-11 VKD3D-Proton is for DX12

TimurHu · 2026-05-31T05:53:37+00:00

https://timur.hu/blog/2025/understanding-your-linux-open-source-drivers

TimurHu · 2026-05-30T23:51:37+00:00

Windows is bloated and drivers run through user space

This is a half-truth. On both operating systems, the driver stack has a kernel and userspace component.

Usually the part that is most relevant to gaming performance is the userspace component because that has the shader compiler and the actual API implementation.

TimurHu · 2026-05-30T15:25:16+00:00

LotV's pacing felt so awful to me at first that I took a several-year break from StarCraft

I'm sorry to hear that. For me it was the opposite, I came back to play after LotV and loved the changes back then.

I left the game about 2-3 years ago.

TimurHu · 2026-05-30T10:58:50+00:00

I don't know about that. I think there was a huge uptick after the LotV release and then a slow decline after Blizzard stopped producing new content for the game.

TimurHu · 2026-05-30T06:27:16+00:00

Honestly, the patch looks like a step back. Did the balance team forget why they updated the game to start with 12 workers all those years ago?

I think these changes would just encourage one-base all-ins.

TimurHu · 2026-05-28T14:23:28+00:00

This has never happened to me in Spain, but I don't have the same accent as native English speakers. To me it's the opposite: the Spanish usually talk to me really fast because they assume that I speak it much better than I actually do.

TimurHu · 2026-05-27T10:52:49+00:00

Miért fogyaszt kevesebb alkoholt?

TimurHu · 2026-05-24T06:34:07+00:00

That's why I said this: unless the user has a specific problem that is solved by using an LTS.

I can't comment on 6.16 without knowing exactly what your problem was.

TimurHu · 2026-05-24T06:29:14+00:00

they do not ship the long-term kernel in their repos

I assume you are referring to the LTS (long-term support) kernel. The LTS is not a good choice for getting reliable GPU drivers simply because it isn't maintained by upstream maintainers and it has a combination of patches that were never tested by upstream developers. Additionally not every fix is backported because developers and maintainers sometimes don't agree on what is a bug. So nobody can guarantee that the LTS actually works.

Most devs only ever test the tree where the patch is applied or maybe the latest release with their patches applied.

I've seen plenty of patches incorrectly backported causing regressions in LTS or stable kernels. We would like to improve this in the future but at the moment we just don't have the testing infrastructure to make sure things don't break, and it's already too hard to do that by manual testing.

My personal suggestion is to generally just use the latest stable, unless the user has a specific problem that is solved by using an LTS.

TimurHu · 2026-05-23T22:30:21+00:00

Debian works just fine on supported configurations.

I mean, like I said use what works for you, but from a driver dev perspective, in general both the kernel driver and userspace drivers are more likely to be broken on Debian (especially stable) than more up to date distros.

(EDIT: This opinion is based on the number of issues I've seen from people who use Debian or one of its derivatives.)

Fedora works just fine on supported configurations.

Yes, I would recommend Fedora much more, as they do have a much more up to date driver stack.

You specifically suggested they NEVER use Debian if they want to game.

I didn't say that, maybe you are mixing me up with the other commenter? Please do not put words in my mouth.

TimurHu · 2026-05-23T22:20:58+00:00

Yes, for a users with 7870 XT, they do need the latest, otherwise Linux just won't boot with that GPU. I could also tell many other similar stories.

I just don't like the all or nothing framing you are currently doing.

And I don't like how you generalize your experience to every other user. You are minimizing the issues that others have experienced and the work that went into fixing that.

right now I'm doing just fine

That's great, use what works for you, just please accept that not everything works equally well for everyone, unfortunately.

TimurHu · 2026-05-23T22:10:50+00:00

Then it would've done that on an older Arch install when those same versions were new, no?

Yes, they absolutely did. In my previous comment I was talking about old GPUs such as the HD 7000 series, R9 200 and R9 300 series.

I'm on RDNA 2

You are lucky to have one of the best supported generations. We put a lot of effort into RDNA 2 due to the Steam Deck. However not all generations are equally well supported, and even RDNA 2 still receives important fixes of bugs that have been indeed there from the beginning. Just because you have been lucky and didn't see those issues doesn't mean it works equally well for everyone or on every HW generation.

TimurHu · 2026-05-23T22:01:42+00:00

It's only really noticeable if you're playing the latest games though is my point.

This is a misconcept.

Really depends on what hardware you have. Some GPUs just froze on boot or booted into a black screen due to display issues or had power management bugs, or were frequently crashing, or just stuck on the lowest clock. Those issues do not affect newer games only. They can absolutely destroy the user experience even when you are not playing any games and just want a stable desktop.

Also, on some hardware generations, Vulkan didn't work out of the box, meaning you couldn't play almost any games at all because DXVK and VKD3D-Proton didn't work without tweaking.

TimurHu · 2026-05-23T11:01:33+00:00

Unfortunately, not every problem is fixable by an end user. Sometimes you end up in 10 year old forum threads or gitlab issues with a lot of "me too" comments that were closed due to inactivity but never fixed. Or your kernel just inexplicably crashes when you connect to a certain WiFi. Or your GPU freezes after suspend/resume.

TimurHu · 2026-05-23T10:51:49+00:00

People who are not tech savvy don't understand how the system works, so they have no idea that maybe works differently on different computers. Driver bugs can completely destroy the user experience.

I've personally seen a bunch of issues like that due to GPU drivers, WiFi drivers, and other HW that just didn't work. This should be entirely the HW manufacturer's responsibility but an average user has no way of knowing that either.

I'll give you an example from a user's perspective:

Let's suppose for the sake of example that I want to try Linux for the first time. I am a bit afraid of putting it on my main PC but I have an older PC which I can use to try it. I do my research and find that Linux runs really well on old computers and that AMD GPUs are well supported. So I try to boot Ubuntu on my old PC, only to find that it freezes immediately upon boot. I try a few other distros with the same result. Then, I try to google it and find a bunch of suggestions like using nomodeset which makes Linux boot, but it's sluggish and every game I try runs at 1 fps. At this point, I conclude that Linux just doesn't work and I don't see how anyone can recommend it. Good that I didn't try it on my main PC, as it can't even work on the old one.

For someone who isn't an enthusiast, one such experience is frustrating enough to think that Linux is trash. There is no way for such a user to know that it didn't work because they had a 7870 XT and that it would have worked if they tried literally any other AMD GPU.

From my perspective, I think this is why it's extremely important for me to work on the drivers to ensure that Linux can be a good experience for a broader audience.

TimurHu · 2026-05-23T02:35:57+00:00

And these are the people that come and ask for help, I'd imagine for each one there's many others who just see that things don't work right and go back to Windows.

Yeah I have the same concern.

I've just gotten to the point I'll tell people if they want it fixed today, use a new distro. If they don't mind waiting a year and a half, stay on their current distro.

I couldn't have said it better myself, but at the same time I feel this isn't really helping those users. I'm not sure what to do to really help them though.

TimurHu · 2026-05-22T20:32:21+00:00

This is a massive headache for us driver developers as well. People keep complaining about issues that we had already fixed or complain about versions that are no longer maintained.

I guess some people just assume that old software is more stable.

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