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That's an interesting list. A lot of those problems, however, are things that most people won't ever see. Of course, some will have an impact on feature availab
by outworlder 5y ago
That's an interesting list. A lot of those problems, however, are things that most people won't ever see. Of course, some will have an impact on feature availability (like how HDR is still nowhere to be found, be it on Xorg, Wayland or Vulkan apps).
Users care about:
* Hardware compatibility. This is actually markedly improved. I did not do any research when building my PC, and yet everything works. Including the Intel wifi6 card - that doesn't work on Windows 10 out of the box and I had to use Linux to download the driver.
Yeah maybe some CPU power states are not working great on my processor. I haven't hooked a Kill-a-Watt to make sure. Temps look fine.
* "Every game ships broken". Ok great. However, I've been working through my entire Steam library and the vast majority work great. Latest failure I saw was on Sea of Thieves (in game voice chat broken). Graphics though? Working great. Including on other titles like Cyberpunk. Vulkan and Proton were a game changer. With AMD open source drivers.
* "NVidia this, NVidia that". Yeah. That's the main thing. If you don't need a feature that's specific to NVidia, please don't buy their cards. I don't care if you are running Linux or Windows, they are actively hostile to the ecosystem. If you ARE on Linux, then good luck. You depend on their proprietary blob and that's very hit and miss. AMD will work much better on Linux (most likely, out of the box with open source drivers).
Yes, for now they have some tech that's specific to them like DLSS. Their raytracing performance is better than the competition (but mind you, they are the ones actively pushing for raytracing support on mainstream games and spending marketing dollars to entice customers). They have CUDA (then again, they did whatever they could to push it). I'm actually surprised they didn't come up with a fully proprietary rendering API yet.
There was a reason why Linus gave NVidia the finger.
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- itvision 5y agoA ton of anecdata, yet 1) Tons of Wifi adapters are not supported by the Linux kernel - you need to scavenge the web and compile random git repos 2) The games _you_ play work perfectly which means all others play well. Oh, great. Now please check DXVK which already contains hundreds of quirks thus mimicking AMD/NVIDIA Windows drivers in making badly coded games work. 3) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues - absolutely nothing there. All work perfectly. Good luck and have fun.