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Nvidia provides good support for CUDA on Linux, but not good support for graphics on Linux. You recognize this, and use a different brand GPU for graphics. Th
by LukeShu 8y ago
Nvidia provides good support for CUDA on Linux, but not good support for graphics on Linux. You recognize this, and use a different brand GPU for graphics. The Nvidia users that Sir_Cmpwn is frustrated with are those that think that the same GPU should be good for both tasks, and that everyone working on graphics do all the extra work to adapt to the whims of Nvidia engineers who don't care about their graphics use-cases.
The comment that Sir_Cmpwn was replying to litterally said "Nvidia is absolutely the only option, and it is everything else that has to adapt to it." Now that is the harmful attitude. Because you use Nvidia for CUDA doesn't mean that you need to use Nvidia for graphics. If you do choose to use Nvidia for graphics (despite a clear compatibility warning from the community), you shouldn't demand the graphics people to bend-over-backwards and "[have] to adapt to [Nvidia]."
And you, coffeecat, don't seem to demand that.
- coffeecat 8y agoIt's one thing to tell users to get lost, if they are making unreasonable demands (or any demands at all, for that matter). It's another thing to make vitriolic, divisive comments about all (not some) nvidia users, or to ban all users of proprietary drivers from an issue tracker.
- atemerev 8y agoI am not demanding anything, I just think that this attitude is unproductive and harms adoption and never wins. This is why Linux, which okays using firmware blobs and adapts to hardware, is the OSS champion, and Hurd is vaporware.
- LukeShu 8y agoWayland isn't refusing to support Nvidia for ideological reasons, they're refusing to support Nvidia for pragmatic reasons. It's not "ideologically, we'd like to be able to modify the Nvidia blob", it's "pragmatically, we'd need to make this specific change to the Nvidia blob to make it work".