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It's not just the Wayland/EGL stuff with Nvidia. They've been called 'the worst company to work with' by the Linux kernel devs and are locking their GPUs down
by qplex 7y ago
It's not just the Wayland/EGL stuff with Nvidia.
They've been called 'the worst company to work with' by the Linux kernel devs and are locking their GPUs down with signed firmware. Nouveau driver development is no longer possible for GM20x and newer GPUs because of this.
- cies 7y agoHence... > --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia
- jl6 7y agoI recently built a new PC and my GPU was a Radeon RX 5700 for exactly this reason.
- pjmlp 7y agoI though I was doing a good deed buying a netbook with AMD CPU, because of their FOSS love and such, then they decided that Brazos APUs aren't worth supporting beyond basic features. Since then I just decided that no matter what, GNU/Linux is not the platform for anyone that actually cares about desktop graphics programming.
- vertex-four 7y agoBrazos is 2011-era, right? amdgpu has become a thing since then - AMD now officially supports their GPUs on Linux, including those in most APUs.
- pjmlp 7y agoExcept that it doesn't provide the same OpenGL features and hardware video decoding as fxglr. So much for "supports".
- eleitl 7y agoWay ahead of you here. And regardless of how https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm pans out, at least you're not sinking skills into a proprietary jail.