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Re:AMD ROCm Going Open-Source: Will Include Software and Har... by orbifold on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:32PM (#39922701)
Compare the number of issues here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Vulkan. The only issue with the Nvidia driver is that there might be another (open-source) driver installed. AMD has several drivers which fail in different situations. The same has been true for OpenGL implementations, the only truly good implementation is the one by Nvidia, this is even well known in the PC game development industry.
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Re:AMD ROCm Going Open-Source: Will Include Software and Har... by AshamedCaptain on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:36PM (#39922756)
What is this trying to prove? It's just one random page of a publicly editable wiki. AMD/Intel having more entries may just be because it is more popular (which it is indeed), or because (being opensource) it is actually easier to debug+solve problems, and/or a million other reasons.

Frankly, I think all the argument you need is that despite the huge advantage nvidia has on other platforms, it is almost completely reversed (even on steam) for Linux. It conveys very heavily that at least nvidia has a very poor reputation on Linux desktops.

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