Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos

Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by goosedragons on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:24PM (#34973627)

While FSR isn't a standard, AMD at least put effort into getting it working on competing Nvidia cards.

Yes, things mostly work when you install the Nvidia Linux drivers. But even on a Ubuntu LTS I've had updates break the Nvidia driver, sleep is a 50/50 toss up whether it resumes broken too. And that's on my desktop and ignoring the giant PITA of using a laptop with hybrid graphics. Using the Nvidia drivers also greatly complicates using a Libre distro like Debian or Guix because obviously they're non-free. Plus until the past year or so Wayland has just been essentially a non-starter with Nvidia even with drivers because of their choices.

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Re:Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTub... by mardifoufs on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:14PM (#34976292)

I agree that you shouldn't use nvidia if you want any distro that prefers libre software. For most regular users it's just fine, except for wayland as you said. I wonder if nvidia has any plans w.r.t wayland support. Everything still works with X but wayland has finally shaped up to probably displace it.

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