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The quality of Nvidia's linux drivers hasn't changed much. They are about as good as they were 10 years ago. But everything else has changed around them. The q
by phire 5y ago
The quality of Nvidia's linux drivers hasn't changed much. They are about as good as they were 10 years ago.
But everything else has changed around them. The quality of other drivers has improved, the linux ecosystem and what it expects out of drivers has changed, and the nvidia windows drivers have gotten features that the nvidia linux drivers don't.
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- foepys 5y agoWasn't there a situation where the Linux ecosystem decided to use an API that Nvidia officially opposed and never wanted to support? Resulting in Wayland/KDE/GNOME (or similar) not running quite a lot of features on Nvidia? Something about Nvidia only supporting EGLstream while everybody else wanted GBM? It's very foggy in my mind, so I might be misremembering details.
- mijoharas 5y agoYou have the details precisely correct. Nvidia are finally moving to support GBM (iirc, it's because someone from KDE asked an nvidia engineer to help get something working with wayland+eglstreams, and he found out it was impossible, as the community had been saying for a while. Slight citation needed on that as I can't find a reference). Technically they have support in their latest 495 drivers, but I can speak from experience when I say it's not seamless for a user. (I have put a lot of effort into getting it to work and it recently broke again).
- mijoharas 5y agoFound a reference[0]. I'm not gonna pretend that "thing I read by some random person on a forum" is an unimpeachable source, but it's where I heard it I think. [0] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/nvidia-beta-4952905-rolls-out-with-gbm-for-expanded-wayland-support/comment_id=212186 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/10/nvidia-beta-4952905-ro...