The death watch for the X Window System has probably started

Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by shmerl on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:55AM (#20383250)

> 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.

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by orbifold on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:47AM (#20390518)

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.

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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by shmerl on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:06AM (#20391849)

Their blob has no features advantage, and neither performance advantage anymore vs Mesa. While it is known to cheat and violate OpenGL spec to show better results.

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