Man, Valve has got to be the pretty much the only company I still hold any decent amount of respect for
It is still a private company (thank god). It is not beholden to shareholders.
I keep seeing this comment and I think people are confused about private companies.
Private company is one that’s not publicly listed (traded on an exchange). Private companies still have shareholders, they may still have board of directors with shareholders representatives sitting in them. And these shareholders can still demand returns on their investment. There’s a whole industry around this called private equity.
Now it doesn’t look like Gabe Newell ever took Private Equity funding and according to the internet he owns 50% of the Valve shares but that still means that a large pile of shares is owned by other people who get some say in the company’s direction.
So saying that Valve makes this or that decision because they are private is wrong. Most companies are private and you don’t see them being all charitable and investing in open source.
You could argue that Valve is allowed to make certain decisions more freely because he’s a co-founder who still owns the majority stake though. And the company being private means that unless he sells his shares he gets to retain that control.
Costco?
Okay valve and Costco, but If anyone ever fucks with the price of the hot dog…
All hail Gabe!
Nice. So I just need to update the mesa version whenever it arrives, and it should be faster now? Also, are there any disadvantages to using amdvlk instead of mesa?
Radv is usually faster than amdvlk Except some edge case like ray tracing or some engine, you will get better performance with Mesa radv
You can even have both of them installed and use amdvlk only for games that works better there, but really they are not too many. These are some Phoronix tests on the matter if you want to check them out. ^^
