Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by debugnik on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:03AM
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I'd trade half my GPU performance for the NVIDIA drivers not freezing my system on wake-up. The new half-open ones arguably made it worse, it consistently freezes now.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by pxc on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @08:41AM
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Then why are you using NVIDIA? The AMD open-source driver stack is very mature by now
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by debugnik on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @10:48AM
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I had switched back to Windows after years of issues with Linux drivers, I needed a new PC, and I needed CUDA for college and tinkering.
Now, it's been barely a couple of months since I reinstalled Ubuntu, and a couple of weeks since I found out the latest release runs even worse, so this is new to me. I don't plan to use Windows at home ever again, so I could sell my GPU and buy AMD, but so far I'm simply disappointed.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
by pxc on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:01PM
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Ugh, that sucks. It makes sense. I'm somewhat optimistic that as the open-sourcing effort continues, more and more of NVIDIA's driver stack will be open-source and it will see significant improvements, too.
Their GTX series cards all used proprietary blobs that required unmanageable device specific interfaces.
Starting from the RTX series cards, they still have proprietary blobs but instead of having device specific interfaces, they all use a shared public interface which makes compatibility and performance much better.
It's not across the board, but there are instances of gaming benchmarks showing more performance under linux than windows.