NVIDIA Is "Taking Linux Gaming Serious"

[mike4]

On Ubuntu I always run into problems installing/updating Nvidia. It would be cool to have it as easy as on Windows.
Those repos/ppas etc. are 90% broken...

Any yes integrate the Mantle goodies into OpenGL. Maybe Mantle, but I couldn't care less, as we don't need any more
fragmentation.

[shmerl]

On Ubuntu I always run into problems installing/updating Nvidia. It would be cool to have it as easy as on Windows.
Those repos/ppas etc. are 90% broken...

On Debian I just use sgfxi. Works like a charm.

[ElderSnake]

On Ubuntu I always run into problems installing/updating Nvidia. It would be cool to have it as easy as on Windows.
Those repos/ppas etc. are 90% broken...

For real?

I can't say I've had issues with the NVIDIA driver on any distro. I have had all sorts of issues with AMD Catalyst, but thankfully the open source ATI driver (especially with DPM) has now got to a point where I don't even bother with AMD's binary anymore.

[RealNC]

What else do they even need to do? The binary driver is already at performance parity with Windows.

Nope, performance parity is only one thing to take into consideration. There's no driver API that would allow us to write a clone of NVidia Inspector for Linux. Also, the control panel is a very sad thing in Linux. In Windows, I can configure pretty much everything in it. In Linux, it is extremely basic.

[Calinou]

Nope, performance parity is only one thing to take into consideration. There's no driver API that would allow us to write a clone of NVidia Inspector for Linux. Also, the control panel is a very sad thing in Linux. In Windows, I can configure pretty much everything in it. In Linux, it is extremely basic.

The control panel could use localization (translations) too.

[Yorgos]

that's true, but their latest cards contain a gpu from 1.5 year ago(q1-q2 '12).

[Apopas]

What else do they even need to do? The binary driver is already at performance parity with Windows.

Maybe there is one thing they can do: bring their overclocking tools over to Linux. Doesn't need to be opensource; as long as it works properly like they have been doing with the binary driver, it's good enough.

They could support nouveau.

[[Knuckles]]

Kernel Mode Setting!!
You can always spot a machine with a proprietary gpu driver booting by the butt-ugly bootsplash resolution and tty transitions.
Debugging of kernel panic also depends on this; proprietary gpu users just get a frozen screen with no information. Joking aside, a blue screen is much better from a usability prespective than a freeze.

[kshade]

I'd like them to provide more timely support for newer kernel versions in the future and less general weirdness (how does that even happen).

[gilboa]

EGL driver for Wayland please. KDE and Gnome will enable Wayland next year, and if Nvidia won't release the driver, it will become a mess.

/+100.

- Gilboa