Dne pondělí 1. dubna 2019 3:17:57 CEST, Stasiek Michalski napsal(a):
Hi, There has been some discussion about performance of our distributions in gaming specific workflows. While it would be hard to approach every single game to fix the abhorent performance due to sloppy steam ports to Linux, and Wine emulation performance, we can do better by providing a distribution with tweaked performance impacting parameters. What does that entail? The main complaint is that Intel, being a way more popular choice for gamers, lags behind AMD on openSUSE distributions. It would be a step in right direction if we had kernels specific for vendor, due to large differences between the ways they choose to build their CPUs. On top of that, we should have versions of packages, which avoid any sort of security if it impacts performance. All the security flags in GCC, gone, all the fixes to Spectre and Meltdown cause major drop in performance, there is no point to keep them for this new distribution. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=spec-melt-8way Obviously we would need to provide beta drivers for Nvidia GPUs directly in the distribution non-oss repos, to rebuild them every time new major kernel comes out, so the drivers never stop working properly. On top of that, for enthusiasts of AMD GPUs and Intel integrated, we should provide git version of mesa and related drivers, after all gaming is so on edge, every improvement counts. All of those changes would make openSUSE Gaming distro the most reputable and reliable way for gamers to enjoy their games. But, never forget about bringing some good looking branding along for the ride: Logo: https://i.imgur.com/XFBlEmg.png Wallpaper (optimized for 32:9 gaming resolution): https://i.imgur.com/22pHtiY.png I thought bigger logo might be distracting the main message of the wallpaper, so I kept it fairly small and in the corner Hope you like it!
Any performance improvement is of course good. I wonder how much of such changes are specific for gaming and how much help in other cases...? I'd suppose that only the spectre/meltdown fixes and might be the NVIDIA drivers would be specific for gaming. So this might help everyone. Although I like idea of improved gaming performance of openSUSE, IMHO it's not the best way to create separate distribution, as it could just confuse users what to download and if such gaming edition is useful for anything else. Might be choice during Leap installation with some explanation would be enough. If such change would mean basically just different kernel, one could also choose during boot. -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/ https://trapa.cz/