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Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Re: Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Post by alt227 »

noir_lord wrote: post #37
chongli wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they finally going to fix the issue of having introduced a second right click menu that forces me to click “show more options” literally every single time I want to do anything?

Run (as Administrator) in a terminal reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve Should restore the old right click menu (it did last time I used it at any rate). So much of windows 11 configuration is removing things you never asked for and putting things back . Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2287432/...

Lifesaver thankyou :)

Re: Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

exceptione wrote: post #22
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As a side note, it strikes me how much we owe to young trans people for low level performance engineering. wtf?

Just an observation.

Would you have made that observation and pointed it out if they were not trans?

Re: Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Post by vladvasiliu »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #68
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any improvements with fractional scaling? Can anyone please link to any material reg the work being done for improving fractional scaling in Linux; it would be great if it could match the rendering quality of macOS.

What's your setup like? I'm on AMD+Wayland+KDE, no complaints with fractional scaling on my ASUS ProArt PX13 (255 PPI screen).

IME it works fine on Intel iGPUs, too. I even use multiple ratios with no issue (constant 125% on the laptop, 100% on an external screen and 200% on a different screen at work).

Contrary to Windows, this also works well when hotplugging screens. Menus don't end up a blurry mess, and apps seem to work fine. On Windows, even some 1st-party apps are borked (task manager comes to mind).

Re: Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Post by ggus »

krisknez wrote: post #34

I hope there will be an update where when my RAM gets full my PC doesn't freeze and becomes unusable... I remember that Linux and Windows do this in different ways and Windows doesn't have the problem.

macOS too sadly. by the time you realise there's a problem the machine is already comatose and unresponsive

all these electron apps and invisible virtual machines (looking at you Claude) really don't help.

Re: Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Post by pletnes »

HugoTea wrote: post #51
alt227 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally am very excited for the upcoming Windows 11 update which will allow users to move the taskbar to any edge of their screen.

Ah it'll be just like 2015 again

Wasn’t this in win 95?

Re: Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Post by compass_copium »

chongli wrote: post #30
timpera wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. The Insider blog tends to be pretty up-to-date: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/ They seem to be focused on performance improvements because of the MacBook Neo pressure and RAM crisis, but right now, I'm mostly excited for the right-click menu and taskbar improvements. You can already do this with third-party software, but it's not the best experience unfortunately.

Are they finally going to fix the issue of having introduced a second right click menu that forces me to click “show more options” literally every single time I want to do anything?

What, you don't find it charming that they shoehorned in the old right click menu without even changing its appearance to match the rest of Windows 11? It really shows how much thought Microsoft is putting into Windows now.

Re: Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Post by d3Xt3r »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #63
d3Xt3r wrote: post #11

Gosh, 7.2 literally just dropped with a bunch of awesome of performance/gaming related improvements (large folios, cache-aware scheduling, improved MGLRU reclaiming, Fair GPU Scheduler etc)... and I already can't wait for 7.3 to come out. Meanwhile in the Windows world, users hate updates... Like I genuinely can't think of a single instance that made users exclaim, "oh boy I just can't wait for the next Patch Tuesday…

I use arch based linux. This year updates have broken video decoding twice. Font rendering once (still not fixed without manually deleting files.). And broken the whole system due to there not being a mechanism that makes sure all QT libraries upate at the same time once or twice. That is all one system. Meanwhile 4 separate windows pcs have not had problems with updates for at least 6 years

It's not fair comparing Arch and Windows as they are two very different types of OSes. Arch is bleeding edge and it is completely normal and expected to be prone to breakages. It's not meant for the average PC user, it's meant for experienced users who're comfortable with troubleshooting technical issues, reporting bugs, and know and are happy to downgrade packages/rollback to previous snapshots etc. On the upside, Arch also gets fixes before anyone else.

If you want a stable Linux experience though, pick something like Fedora, or even better, pick an immutable distro like Aurora or Bazzite, if you really, really care about stability.

Re: Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Post by Neil44 »

krisknez wrote: post #34

I hope there will be an update where when my RAM gets full my PC doesn't freeze and becomes unusable... I remember that Linux and Windows do this in different ways and Windows doesn't have the problem.

Windows absolutely does have this problem.

Re: Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Post by compass_copium »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #63
d3Xt3r wrote: post #11

Gosh, 7.2 literally just dropped with a bunch of awesome of performance/gaming related improvements (large folios, cache-aware scheduling, improved MGLRU reclaiming, Fair GPU Scheduler etc)... and I already can't wait for 7.3 to come out. Meanwhile in the Windows world, users hate updates... Like I genuinely can't think of a single instance that made users exclaim, "oh boy I just can't wait for the next Patch Tuesday…

I use arch based linux. This year updates have broken video decoding twice. Font rendering once (still not fixed without manually deleting files.). And broken the whole system due to there not being a mechanism that makes sure all QT libraries upate at the same time once or twice. That is all one system. Meanwhile 4 separate windows pcs have not had problems with updates for at least 6 years

That's an arch issue, not a Linux issue.

Re: Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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Post by fleroviumna »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #11

Gosh, 7.2 literally just dropped with a bunch of awesome of performance/gaming related improvements (large folios, cache-aware scheduling, improved MGLRU reclaiming, Fair GPU Scheduler etc)... and I already can't wait for 7.3 to come out. Meanwhile in the Windows world, users hate updates... Like I genuinely can't think of a single instance that made users exclaim, "oh boy I just can't wait for the next Patch Tuesday…

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