Quoting: HoriThey either need to be serious (right now they're anything but... and always have been) about their Linux support in their drivers, or open source them... or ideally both.

Ignoring the very likely legal issues with what you propose, do you really think that just changing the license and dumping thousands of lines of code on GitHub would change anything?

I guess what you are really asking is that NVIDIA sets up there driver development like amdgpu (the kernel part) and Mesa, which essentially means rewriting the complete driver from scratch. I don’t know anything about the NVIDIA driver, but I’m very certain that you don’t do this on a Friday afternoon.

Please don’t get me wrong, I would also prefer that NVIDIA drivers integrates better into the modern graphics stack on Linux and I’m also certain and don’t like that e.g. Wayland adoption is unfortunately way slower due to that. It’s also completely fair that you are switching vendors for your next card. Though please don’t demand a solution which sounds popular, but really wouldn’t work in practice and completely misses the point for this complex issue.

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That PR also mentions GAMMA_LUT support arriving at some point, which is afaik the missing requirement for night light on Gnome Wayland with the NVIDIA drivers. Very nice and hope it won’t take that long.

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Quoting: slembckeI'm guessing it's something to do with skipping some of the compositor steps for fullscreen applications.

I thought that has been in place for fullscreen apps in Gnome for a long time? I could be wrong, interested in exactly what these changes were.

I’m also pretty certain that Gnome does this correctly since a long time.

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Yeah, same here, I love the Gnome Desktops since version 3 (had been a KDE user before that time) and in my opinion they are moving into the right direction. I can understand that it’s not for everyone, but it fits for me. The usability tip I guess is to learn the keyboard shortcuts…
Looking especially forward to this new version since finally this PR got in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/285 [External Link]
Wayland here I come :)
(well, during the day I guess until the NVIDIA drivers supports night light)

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Microsoft is huge with a lot of different departments with I guess different cultures (the Azure team certainly also prefers Linux), but still, this is quite a move. I read several Steam Deck reviews and most ended with that the journey to the Steam Deck hasn't ended, but it has just now started with a long way ahead (and also partially a long way to go). May be we are really witnessing a shift in the force, I mean market...

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Quoting: pbThree people? I'm sure they're great engineers, but google could throw some more manpower into the project if they hope to put Stadia back on track.

If you have some minutes to spare, please take a look at this article https://www.allankelly.net/archives/472/software-has-diseconomies-of-scale-not/ [External Link] . Creating software is a business with its own laws.

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I’m really glad that I had finished GTA V before launcher updates became more frequent. With later attempts to start it was always a hit and mis if a launcher update broke the game on Linux or not :(
Games update invalidating Deck verification seems like a tricky issue to solve for Valve without somewhat support or at least goodwill from the originating studio.

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Quoting: jens

DXVK-NVAPI is what provides the likes of NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex (by using LatencyFleX), NVIDIA PhysX and more to Linux with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton.

To clarify, DXVK-NVAPI is actually pretty thin and is mostly about providing a few NVAPI methods for GPU topology and forwarding entry points into other libraries. The actual DLSS calls are forwarded into DXVK and VKD3D-Proton which forwards things into the NVIDIA driver. Same for Reflex, as you stated, the actual work is done by LatencyFlex. PhysX also still happens in the PhysX runtime, DXVK-NVAPI only implements a few methods that are used to query PhysX capabilities for the present GPU.

Thanks but really the point remains the same, it's what enables it to happen. Not that it specifically does it all directly.

Yeah, sure, it is certainly one part of the puzzle. Just wanted to clarify that it is a relatively small piece compared to the main projects and to ensure that credits go where the actual magic has happened.

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DXVK-NVAPI is what provides the likes of NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex (by using LatencyFleX), NVIDIA PhysX and more to Linux with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton.

To clarify, DXVK-NVAPI is actually pretty thin and is mostly about providing a few NVAPI methods for GPU topology and forwarding entry points into other libraries. The actual DLSS calls are forwarded into DXVK and VKD3D-Proton which forwards things into the NVIDIA driver. Same for Reflex, as you stated, the actual work is done by LatencyFlex. PhysX also still happens in the PhysX runtime, DXVK-NVAPI only implements a few methods that are used to query PhysX capabilities for the present GPU.

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About the actual action by GOG to block Russia and Belarus: to be honest I don’t know what’s the best long term or even short term action. Imho the art of diplomacy is to end a war with all sides feeling like winners, though if there was an easy solution, it would have already been found.

I do know that I really want this to end. It really hurts to see that Europe went 50 or more years back in time within just a few days. Within the same few days millions of people lost their homes and culture and probably their future and a lot even their life’s, all for nothing or some false glorification of the past if you ask me :(. I also don’t want to wake up one morning reading that we do have another nuclear catastrophe here in Europe because of someone declaring a power plant a military target without thinking straight :(
I hope for all the people being affected by this war, that it will end really soon. There are no winners in wars.

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