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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:36AM (#38447615)
Even more frustrating is on the Linux side. We've had a couple of threads about how bad Wayland is, when most of the problems are due to Nvidia binary drivers.

It's been 11 years since Linus gave Nvidia the finger. Nobody who is thinking of possibly running Linux should ever buy an Nvidia product. Yet Nvidia is still very commonly spec'd into Linux builds even today.

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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by Filligree on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:46AM (#38447757)
AMD cards are _very bad_ at running CUDA. If you're running linux on a desktop, there's a decent chance you're the type who wants to play with ML as well...
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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by latchkey on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @03:53PM (#38451155)
AMD has a translation layer called HIP as part of the ROCm toolset. This doesn't get us 100% of the way there, but it is an alternative that is gaining traction as they work to improve it.
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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by smoldesu on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:58AM (#38447905)
KDE's Wayland session is fine on Nvidia, at least with my 3070. There used to be more visual artifacts, but everything I'm using works, from CUDA to Mesa to DLSS. The largest remaining bug I'm aware of has to do with how blurred windows are presented. It's pretty functionally solid, at least with newer drivers.
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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:06PM (#38448015)
I am still getting a lot of visual artifacts on a 970.
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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by shmerl on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:41AM (#38447704)
On Linux people are clearly leaning to AMD for a while already, especially when gaming is concerned:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi...

In the Windows land it's indeed mostly Nvidia.

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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by robotnikman on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:51AM (#38447814)
Ironically, ARM drivers for Nvidia are available for Linux, but not for Windows
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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by anon291 on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:49PM (#38448563)
I've used NVIDIA on linux for decades and the support has always been great in my experience
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