Quoting: goldenkExactly, I don’t give a rats ass weather its nvidia or amd. It’s whoever makes the most powerful card and right now it’s nvidia. I could care less about the politics of weather something is open source or not. Its funny how all you AMD users get bent out of shape about hardware or software you dont even use.

Not surprising coming from those who are used to Windows approach to things. Nvidia is using the same. But Linux approach is different. You might not care less, but you should at least figure out what the Linux approach is.

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Actually, Nvidia's Vulkan implementation is not faster. If anything, AMD one actually is (considering ACO and amdvlk).

OpenGL cheating on the other hand can not be considered a "faster driver", it's not even a fair comparison. You need to compare compliant drivers for that.

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Quoting: sr_ls_boySomeone at Phoronix was looking for a very detailed post by 'i mirkin' concerning the problems with nouveau.
It was a write-up about firmware, VBIOS and overclocking(or the lack thereof).

Yep, pretty good summary. Here is another one [External Link]. TL;DR: just don't use Nvidia ;)

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Quoting: Guestone can only hope that nvidia have a change of tune. I honestly doubt it.

Current Nvidia CEO simply doesn't get the point of open source, they aren't any better than Oracle in this sense. Unless their higher management is replaced, I doubt anything will change there. So there is no point to expect anything from them. The best tactic for Linux users is to completely avoid them.

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Quoting: RussianNeuroMancerThey don't need Nouveau to work properly, they need Nouveau to work enough to justify keeping certain kernel interfaces in place, to prevent cases like this one [External Link].

Good attitude towards the blob. Kernel developers should have strong push against any special treatment for Nvidia. Either Nvidia works with upstream, or they should get lost.

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Quoting: KohriasThey don't even have anything to say to this most basic feature? Nice PR stunt, Nvida!

So far it looks like they are ready to open anything, but the features that are blocking Nouveau to become fully functional. I.e. all that doesn't change the status quo. And surely they won't comment on continuing messing things up.

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Improvement, but far from enough to make Nouveau work properly. Nvidia are being their usual selves. Let them open stuff properly like AMD and Intel do, without all this fooling around.

Almost a decade long legal review is a poor excuse for their anti-competitive reasons for not opening things up.

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Isn't there some way to disable automatic launching for such files? Autoruns is such an old nasty issue, that it's surprising KDE still has it enabled by default.

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Since high-quality RPG experiences aren't exactly that common on Linux

I actually thought, that RPGs is one of the best represented genres on Linux both in quality and in quantity.

The game looks promising! Hopefully GOG release is planned (Tower of Time is available there).

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That's a huge proportion of AMD GPUs and CPUs in those reports. Different ratio than in GOL stats.

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