Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by orbifold on Monday July 08, 2019 @08:39AM
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Or you know, just don't use the linux desktop. Nvidia's drivers are the only ones with a good Vulkan / OpenGL implementation, the other ones are underperforming severely. Nvidia also exclusively develops CUDA, so it basically it the only serious alternative for accelerating scientific workloads. Basically no-one cares what Kernel/Window system developers think as long don't cripple the Kernel severely enough that NVIDIA can't around their nonsense.
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by shmerl on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:55AM
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> Nvidia's drivers are the only ones with a good Vulkan / OpenGL implementation
On the contrary, Nvidia drivers have bad reputation of violating OpenGL spec left and right. Mesa is a lot more strict about OpenGL compliance.
And they don't have Vulkan advantage either. Don't use Windows if you need good quality OpenGL.
Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by orbifold on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:47AM
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This is not about compliance but rather features and performance. When OpenGL was relevant they had by far the largest set of well thought out extensions (mutidrawindirect for example). Their Developer Tools were second to none and they had CUDA as a unique value proposition.