Thats cool, but it doesn't clear the onus of proof.
It doesnt really matter and they owe us nothing, but it sure would clear up a LOT of the kiwi farms drama if they did. At present, kiwi farms has better evidence than you do.
Too much to retype here but they were basically gloating about how they verbally "destroyed" people whose opinions they didn't agree with, and patted themselves on the back for being a typical toxic reddit debatelord.
Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 10 April 2025 at 05:46 AM EDT. 12 Comments
RADEON
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now exposing its emulated ray-tracing support by default for older AMD Radeon GPUs even without any form of hardware-accelerated ray-tracing in order to run the new Indiana Jones game. It turns out even the emulated RT mode is fast enough to allow various older AMD Radeon graphics cards to be playable with this title.
Natalie Vock has landed the change to expose the emulated Vulkan ray-tracing extensions by default when running Indiana Jones and The Great Circle "TGC". Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was released for Windows back in December and powered by the Motor Engine. It requires ray-tracing support but it turns out RADV's emulated support is good enough for allowing older GPUs to enjoy this action-adventure game.
Indiana Jones The Great Circle logo
Vock explained in the merge request:
"Various people have been playing Indiana Jones: The Great Circle with RADV_PERFTEST=emulate_rt on GFX9/GFX10. RT support is required to launch the game, and performance is okay even with emulation, so enable it by default to make the game playable for everyone running older (GFX8-10) GPUs."
AMD GFX8 is for the Polaris GPUs along with Volcanic Islands and Arctic Islands. Amazing to see AMD Radeon RX 480/580 Polaris GPUs still working for newer games on Linux.
This change is now in Mesa 25.1-devel while those on current Mesa releases with older Radeon GPUs can always set the RADV_PERFTEST=emulate_rt environment variable to achieve the same behavior.
Well no, we are going from first to like... seventh gen Tegra, which comes with a whole slew of additional hardware support. They are likely going to be hitting 120fps using DLSS, which is both neat and really sad, plus the higher performance video encode/decode for their DiscordGroupChat implementation.
HDR and 1080p on the device's screen itself are big improvements. A lot of people will bellyache about no OLED but LCD tech in general has gotten pretty good and will last 30+ years instead of 10-at-best.
Most of the external hardware changes seem superficial, but things like the dual USB C and the larger joysticks (which hopefully means they won't drift) should be noticeable quality of life enhancements.
I like that Mate is a thing, but like I said, I'm looking for something thats based on it but as if its had the same 20 years of enhancements everything else got.
The closest thing to that I've found is quite literally KDE. So I use KDE.
I miss old Gnome. I wish they'd stuck with the old Gnome 2 design philosophy but breathed new modern design principals into it, instead of trying to go the Ubuntu Unity route. Maybe something like Cinnamon but even more flexible and feature-rich.
If you want to use VSCode without the Microsoft bits, they actually provide that officially. VSCodium is VSCode with all the Microsoft-specific bits stripped out (or rather, not added in in the first place, at compile time). It's all open source too so you can either verify yourself or have a knowledgeable friend do an audit on your behalf.
I use VSCode at work a lot and enjoy it quite a bit. A good alternative would be to use Kate/Kwrite with all of the coding plugins and the linter plugins turned on, the experience is pretty close to VSCode/ium without store extensions.
For those of us that expect room to breathe and make our machine work for us rather than the other way around, we feel like Gnome takes a lot of liberties away for the sake of "simplicity." There is so much missing from Gnome that is present in most other DEs and even custom WM setups.
The primary contributors who work under The Gnome Foundation also come off as controlling and arrogant in a lot of cases, and refuse to take community feedback to heart, whereas KDE has literal summits to get user feedback on major core features we want to see which then later get added to their backlogs and sprints as Epics. Gnome acts a lot like Apple in the sense that they're very much "we know what's best for you better than you do."
Now, the singular area I can give Gnome true props in is their accessibility functionality, but that's primarily it. KDE's accessibility is fairly behind by about a decade in comparison.
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