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Re:Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) by shmerl on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:50AM (#21040522)
Easy to fix - don't use it. Linux users today stay away from it for good reasons.
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Re:Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) by iikoolpp on Sunday September 22, 2019 @07:04AM (#21040723)
I specifically bought only NVIDIA GPUs because they were faster under Linux when I got them.
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Re:Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) by shmerl on Sunday September 22, 2019 @11:55AM (#21041943)
In the past that was a common reason. Today it's not relevant anymore. And downsides of the blob make buying Nvidia a non starter. You can clearly observe this trend today among Linux users.
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Re:Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) by mnd999 on Sunday September 22, 2019 @06:39AM (#21040654)
That’s fine if you’re already a Linux user and purchased hardware with Linux in mind.
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Re:Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017) by shmerl on Sunday September 22, 2019 @12:07PM (#21042032)
For Windows users coming to Linux with Nvidia, this usually simply involves one extra cycle of GPU upgrades. By the next one, it's AMD for them. So in the long run - still not an issue.
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