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Padoka or Oibaf PPA for Ubuntu Gaming? Tell Us Which One Do You Prefer and Why

By Marius Nestor

You know it! The best PPAs for Ubuntu gaming right now are Padoka and Oibaf, created and maintained by Paulo Miguel Dias and Fabio Pedretti respectively. They offer us bleeding-edge Mesa 3D Graphics Library from Git, compiled against the latest development versions of LLVM 5.0 (Padoka) and LLVM 4.0 (Oibaf) compilers. Both of them are currently available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) operating systems, they are updated two or three times per week, and provide us with some special features and optimized graphics drivers for our Ubuntu gaming needs, including OpenCL and AMDGCN/R600 support, and OpenGL 4.5 support for Intel Haswell.

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