There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by fc417fc802 on Saturday August 22, 2026 @01:34AM (#49396860)

I assume you're running proprietary drivers? Because I've never experienced anything like that on mesa. Launching an app that opens a window with a gl or vk context is so fast on my almost 10 year old hardware that it's nearly imperceptible.

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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by adrian_b on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:33AM (#49398065)

There must be some quirk of whatever combination of software packages are installed there, but the proprietary drivers are not the culprit, at least not alone (i.e. there could be some interaction with other software packages with which I have little experience, like Gnome).

I have been using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers for more than 2 decades on various hardware, both desktops and laptops, mostly with Gentoo Linux.

Opening an OpenGL context or any other OpenGL operations have always been instant.

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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by fc417fc802 on Saturday August 22, 2026 @06:17AM (#49398272)

So the usual self inflicted misconfiguration then.

In similar style I recently wiped a device that I thought had firmware that was slow to boot but it turns out that a hang and subsequent timeout due to something I had long ago misconfigured had been obscured by the previous setup that defaulted to hiding all details during boot.

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Re:There's no reason for software to be slow anymore by chromadon on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:13PM (#49403937)

I had this problem on Fedora and my RTX 3090. Never got to the bottom of it.

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