Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
by Fnoord on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @05:50AM
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Just worked? The amount of security advisories for Nvidia kernel module or Nvidia X module are staggering.
X is also insecure from the ground up, that alone is enough incentive to move away from it.
Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
by danieldk on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @06:46AM
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they don't support Wayland, but that's a solution in search of a problem
Not
- if you don't want any GUI application to be able to read keystrokes/mouse events/screen grabs of any other GUI application,
- if you want per-display scaling factors,
- if you want a tear-free desktop experience.
Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
by bryanlarsen on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:29AM
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I'm currently building out a CUDA cluster and I can assure you that Nvidia drivers don't "Just Work"
If AMD is worse, they're failing to clear a pretty low bar.
Re:AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings
by guicho271828 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:50AM
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I'm on 1070 for DL tasks with the proprietary driver and it segfaults cinnamon every hours, probably when the acceleration for its graphic effects kicks in. It can be restarted though. I know it is due to the driver because every time the kernel gets updated cinnamon keeps failing to restart itself until I restart the entire system. This never happened before switching from Radeon.
nouveau was always pretty awful, but the nvidia binary drivers always Just Worked, across many models for many years, whereas with AMD it's always been a crapshoot whether a given card would work properly or not.
The binary drivers always kept up with the important things (indeed they were well ahead of AMD in terms of doing accelerated video decoding on linux via Xvmc and later vaapi, their xinerama integration was always better...). Sure, they don't support Wayland, but that's a solution in search of a problem; if and when there's actual value to be had by using it I have confidence that nvidia will support it.