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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by arghwhat on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:22PM (#20378359)
Intel and AMD maintain open source drivers that have supported this for ages. It's only NVIDIA that still tries to shovel outdated proprietary drivers without support for community developed standards down our throats.

Adding that their proprietary drivers are not particularly good, NVIDIA is not a very popular choice for a Linux machine.

Just remember that it took them almost a decade to add KMS support.

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by michaelmrose on Sunday July 07, 2019 @07:48PM (#20378801)
It's an interesting position to suggest that nvidia which has no obligation to support you in any way shape or form is shoveling anything down your gullet by not supporting the standards you prefer.

You could vote with your wallet but there aren't enough Linux users to move anyone's needles as far as gpus.

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by arghwhat on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:02AM (#20381339)
> but there aren't enough Linux users to move anyone's needles as far as gpus.

Well, for server and ML payloads, we are the vast majority. Things like Google Stadia is certainly enough to move needles, and if AMD ends up able to compete in ML with future products, then we'd be able to make a huge dent in NVIDIA revenue.

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