Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
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Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#2From a YouTube comment:
> please don't hype NTSYNC. yes it has better compatibility than ESYNC and FSYNC, yes it's marginally faster in selected title. The phoronix article reports benchmarks with WINESYNC vs NTSYNC, the gains are there only if you were not already running FSYNC (on by default in most titles running under proton).
> By overhyping features they ultimately end up underdelivering because people expect insane gains that were never there to begin with.
Surely we can do better than YouTube comments?
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#3From a YouTube comment: > please don't hype NTSYNC. yes it has better compatibility than ESYNC and FSYNC, yes it's marginally faster in selected title. The phoronix article reports benchmarks with WINESYNC vs NTSYNC, the gains are there only if you were not already running FSYNC (on by default in most titles running under proton). > By overhyping features they ultimately end up underdelivering because people expect i…
YouTube comments have lots of smart people in them, sometimes.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#4 So it's early Monday morning (well - early for me, I'm not really a morning person), and I'd love to have some good excuse for why I didn't do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon release schedule.
I'd like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and delayed things.
But no. It's just pure incompetence.
Because absolutely nothing last-minute happened yesterday, and I was just clearing up some unrelated things in order to be ready for the merge window. And in the process just entirely forgot to actually ever cut the release. D'oh.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#5From a YouTube comment: > please don't hype NTSYNC. yes it has better compatibility than ESYNC and FSYNC, yes it's marginally faster in selected title. The phoronix article reports benchmarks with WINESYNC vs NTSYNC, the gains are there only if you were not already running FSYNC (on by default in most titles running under proton). > By overhyping features they ultimately end up underdelivering because people expect i…
YouTube comments have lots of smart people in them, sometimes.
That can be simplified by the topic and presentation. Is the content trying to educate, be entertaining or both. Is the topic extremely niche then you will find like minded people with suggestions and discussions.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#6From a YouTube comment: > please don't hype NTSYNC. yes it has better compatibility than ESYNC and FSYNC, yes it's marginally faster in selected title. The phoronix article reports benchmarks with WINESYNC vs NTSYNC, the gains are there only if you were not already running FSYNC (on by default in most titles running under proton). > By overhyping features they ultimately end up underdelivering because people expect i…
If you've been anywhere around linux gaming circles for the past 6-8ish months, you've seen nothing but people not understanding the benchmarks hype NTSYNC. Everyone trying to set appropriate expectations is pretty quickly silenced in whatever manner the platform allows (downvote, etc)
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#7>This driver is designed to emulate Windows NT synchronization primitives
To me, anything that emulates windows primitives is a bad thing. Again these changes being pushed by Microsoft make me glad the BSDs exist.
Lets hope the BSDs can continue staying independent of Large Corporations.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#8>This driver is designed to emulate Windows NT synchronization primitives To me, anything that emulates windows primitives is a bad thing. Again these changes being pushed by Microsoft make me glad the BSDs exist. Lets hope the BSDs can continue staying independent of Large Corporations.
Is initcall_blacklist not enough of an option for you?
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#9>This driver is designed to emulate Windows NT synchronization primitives To me, anything that emulates windows primitives is a bad thing. Again these changes being pushed by Microsoft make me glad the BSDs exist. Lets hope the BSDs can continue staying independent of Large Corporations.
Well, one of the biggest drivers of consumer Linux adoption in recent years has been the Steam Deck, and compatibility with Steam games. The article explicitly calls out how this improves performance for this use case. I think your opinion is an unpopular one.
Re: Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility
#10>This driver is designed to emulate Windows NT synchronization primitives To me, anything that emulates windows primitives is a bad thing. Again these changes being pushed by Microsoft make me glad the BSDs exist. Lets hope the BSDs can continue staying independent of Large Corporations.
Windows did the same thing, in Windows Vista they added some Linux style synchronization primitives, for example condition variables.