Quoting: dpanterNot to be dismissive but... every previous attempt at this exact thing has failed, utterly. Perhaps this time the tech is mature enough to make it viable? :unsure:

Quoting: dpanterThe biggest issue with this concept is that big OEM's don't see this as profitable. Letting consumers repair their own devices conflicts with the endless pursuit of making us buy new devices, so they will not jump onboard, meaning the concept is doomed to be small scale and thus quite costly for the consumer.
Those who have tried something similar have been burned bad or even killed.

Quoting: ShmerlAlso note, that apparently vkd3d-proton performance with Nvidia is not good, unlike with AMD. Phoronix tests don't really cover vkd3d-proton and dxvk in general, meaning those benchmarks don't tell the real story you'll be experiencing if you are using Wine / Proton, which is potentially a big amount of games. This will become more and more critical if there will be more games using DX12, which unfortunately is the current trend.

Quoting: ShmerlThe real issue now is availability. I suspect there won't be any new cards available until next year.

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: KimyrielleIs there still a reason to go for NVidia rather than AMD these days? I am shopping around for a new system too, but have basically ruled out NVidia, because AMD seems to be the much better deal these days, and getting rid of their proprietary driver rubbish is an added plus.

I don't think there is any reason to use it for gaming on Linux these days. The only ones who might have a strong reason to use Nvidia on Linux are those who are stuck with something that's using CUDA lock-in and can't easily migrate from it.

Quoting: GuestThat said, even if this new green card seems well priced, I'm finally about to quit using nvidia by christmas for AMD.
YAY!

• Half Life: Alyx


• Beat Saber


• The Wizards


• Skyrim VR

Quoting: ShmerlI'm somewhat confused, why is it using XWayland unconditionally. XWayland is normally needed only for something that's stuck with X interfaces. Modern games can use SDL or whatever to work with Wayland directly, so that compositor can avoid XWayland for those cases at least?

Quoting: Power-Metal-GamesThey should really have made a "real" game. Not a VR game.
I wonder what is happening with Valve :huh: They really seem to be doing a lot of wrong decisions recently. And with a title that has such a potential! :S:
VR is death. There's really nothing exciting about it. The same is with 3D movies. Interesting thing to see it once or twice, then you go back to real games.