Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by Crinus on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:00AM
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I think he refers to the fact that Nvidia's drivers provided excellent OpenGL support for multiple years compared to the absolute dumpsterfire that fglrx was. Before Valve decided to pay attention to Linux and thus prod AMD to improve their drivers, if you wanted anything approaching serious 3D performance on Linux, you had to use Nvidia. Anything else would be a waste of money.
Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by arghwhat on Monday July 08, 2019 @07:16AM
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Fair enough: That was indeed true many years ago.
Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by Crinus on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:52AM
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Not that many, fglrx's replacement amdgpu was released in april 2015, that is just four years ago. And it wasn't until later that it got usable.
Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by michaelmrose on Sunday July 07, 2019 @07:52PM
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Most distros have a nvidia driver package that aligns with the kernel version shipped. This also means updating one updates the other automatically.
Furthermore lag time for supporting newest kernel normally lags what 30 days?
In brief what you are describing is self inflicted wounds.
Or perhaps their marvelous installation methods of running a random script as root that rewrites configuration files, and its configuration interface that likewise also rewrites configuration files in attempts to get multi-monitor setups working that until recently hardly ever worked?
Maybe you are referring to their magnificent support, forcing you to stay on outdated kernels as upgrading would break compatibility and render you without a functioning graphics adapter short of a VGA-resolution framebuffer console?
It could also be their fantastic backwards compatibility, requiring you to keep track of driver series compatible with certain adapters, where every other GPU in existence just works OOB.
I used NVIDIA up until a 2 years back. While you could arguably get things to work, claiming they had excellent support is laughable at best.