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You just play games at marginally inferior quality. Our new work on Sway also will let you use multiple GPUs without any proprietary interfaces, so you can do 3
by Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
You just play games at marginally inferior quality. Our new work on Sway also will let you use multiple GPUs without any proprietary interfaces, so you can do 3x 4K on AMD too. Regarding Deep Learning, that's too bad. If you can afford a 3x 4K setup though you can probably afford to have a Nvidia GPU for Deep Learning and an AMD GPU for your desktop.
There are compromises you can make, most of them easy. None of this is my problem as the maintainer of Sway.
- falcolas 9y ago> None of this is my problem as the maintainer of Sway So, in short, you're firing your Nvidia users? Sometimes it has to be done, but you'll have to be very clear that you don't want Nvidia users. Passive-aggressive attacks in an indirectly linked blog post against the userbase and Nvidia themselves are not sufficient, you will have to just be explicit about it in your GitHub README.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoWell, I'm firing my Nvidia proprietary driver users. Really, I never "hired" them in the first place. The ones who use nouveau are cool in my book. I don't feel the need to call this out in the README. Also, this article contains pretty forwardly agressive attacks, I think.
- SEJeff 9y agoYour users (those with 4 x 30" monitors like me) will be firing you as well. It isn't my fault that Nvidia makes superior GPUs and writes shit software :)
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoI use 4 displays, 3x 1080p and 1x 4K. I'm happy to lose users who don't do their research and misportray the superiority of Nvidia, though.
- SEJeff 9y agoI do CUDA work (OpenCL is close, but not nearly as powerful) along with run big monitors. I've done my research, and there is Nvidia, and inferior options.
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- shmerl 9y agoHow does using Vulkan for GPGPU today compare to using CUDA, I mean performance wise?
- kbutler 9y agoDepends on how you value Wayland support. That said, if I were Nvidia, and the post was an example of "cooperating" and "working" with the Wayland developers, I don't think I'd go out of my way to cooperate.
- wizbright 9y agoYou can swap "Nvidia" and "Wayland developers" and still end up with an equally valid argument.
- kelnos 9y agoHow so? The Wayland developers are pushing for open, unified standards that work across all chipsets. Nvidia is pushing for their own special snowflake implementation/interface, that no one else would or could use. You can certainly make the swap and the sentence still makes sense and is factually correct, but the context matters.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoI think he means that >That said, if I were (the Wayland developers), and (witnessed how Nvidia is) "cooperating" and "working" with (us), I don't think I'd go out of my way to cooperate. Is also a valid point.
- bmon 9y ago>you're fired. >nu-uh, I quit!
- Qwertious 9y ago>Well, I'm firing my Nvidia proprietary driver users. Really, I never "hired" them in the first place. The ones who use nouveau are cool in my book. I don't feel the need to call this out in the README. Upon thinking about this, it's kind of like listing dependencies. I think you should make it clear in the README. I don't think the blog post is relevant in this context, as people likely won't read your blog post before installing Sway (and how would they know to do so, anyway?).
- seba_dos1 9y agoShouldn't it be Nvidia who needs to write it in their README? It's them who are incompatible with everything else, not Sway or Kwin.
- datawarrior 9y agoSorry but with your attitude I really don't care about anything else you have to say. Grow up.
- sctb 9y agoCould you please not make personal attacks? They don't belong on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html