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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by lnxg33k1 on Friday March 04, 2022 @05:54AM (#30553059)
I have built my desktop with top end components: ASRock X570M Pro4, ASUS ROG Radeon RX 6800, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, WDBlack Nvme, and I have no issue at all with drivers or anything (I also use gentoo with a self-configured kernel, no genkernel). It's my daily driver for working and gaming 4k (with 3 4k monitors)

Linux has no issue with drivers and/or video cards in particular, people just need to pay some attention when buying components, saying that linux has issues with graphics because of nvidia it's a bit unfair, nouveau is not able to use acceleration because the videocard doesn't activate it if it isn't loaded by the official nvidia blob, so if linux is supposed to have issues with graphic card while vendors actively create obstacles, we will never figure the real issue and hold the right people accountable: It's nvidia that has still issues with linux

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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by NavinF on Friday March 04, 2022 @07:08AM (#30553573)
That works if you don’t care about deep learning or use any apps that need CUDA
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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by lnxg33k1 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:30AM (#30566535)
Yeah but why do we blame linux if it's the official nvidia drivers that sucks and when the video cards doesn't work with acceleration if you don't use that driver that sucks? What is linux supposed to do?
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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by NavinF on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:36PM (#30573144)
I don’t care who’s to blame, but I’ll just say that the proprietary drivers work just fine on servers and I imagine they’d work fine on Desktop too if distros installed them automatically. Loads of people try Linux on a PC they already have instead of buying a new one that has upstream drivers for every component. This is yet another reason why Linux desktop will never have >2% market share.
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