Favorite MESA PPA?

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Hi, what is your favorite MESA PPA (and why)?

https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa

Or…
https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers

Or…
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/ubuntu/updates

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Only one I’ve known about was Oibaf. I was just looking yesterday after reading that mesa 18.2 + kernel 4.17 (or later) has fixes that get my 2400G iGPU working properly. I heard about that PPA back when I started using Linux and this is only the second time I had new hardware that didn’t have full compatibility in Ubuntu. I guess that’s what happens when you buy a motherboard the day it shows up for sale.

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Interesting explanation to those PPAs:

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Oibaf. It’s the one that works with the least issues for me, and the few times it doesn’t I can clean ppa-purge it with no problems. The Padoka ppas for some reason always want to remove my entire DE if I try to purge them.
At the moment I’m running stock Kubuntu 18.10. Last I heard both oibaf an padoka had packaging issues for this latest release. Don’t have any newish game that does not work with the stock Mesa version anyway.

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Thanks for your feedback, Oibaf seems more conservative indeed. Prior to installing it, Ubuntu 18.04.1 - released yesterday - may bring the appropriate up-to-date MESA version anyway