Wayland: “Move fast and break things” as a moral imperative

Re:Wayland: “Move fast and break things” as a moral imperative by mqus on Sunday May 23, 2021 @08:56AM (#27254686)

I also had doubts but there are statistics (arguably not representative) that seem to confirm this: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun (See GPU drivers and add(might not be the best idea, I know) the nvidia numbers...)

It might be machine learning stuff which heavily leans into nvidia hardware

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Re:Wayland: “Move fast and break things” as a moral imperative by vetinari on Monday May 24, 2021 @07:31AM (#27263159)

Just adding them all goes way beyond 100%, so it really is not the best idea.

In general, the market share (as in GPUs sold, in total, for all systems, not just Linux) was around 70% Intel, 17% Nvidia and 13% AMD. This was before GPUs turned into inobtaniums, so I guess Nvidia and AMD didn't improve their positions much.

Yes, there are ML guys on the Linux side, but that could be compensated by gamers on the Windows side, so I assume that if anything, Windows would have more share of Nvidia than Linux. Miners don't really care for desktop.

There is a place where Nvidia achieved significant share - it has 70% in Steam hardware survey. That is to be expected, gamers are heavily biased towards Nvidia.

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