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Originally posted by bug77 View PostBasically, your quarrel is the license. I wonder how often you have to use that that makes cry rivers over it.
Besides optimus, I couldn't name any missing features compared to Windows and optimus support is blown way out of proportions. One feature I particularly like is getting simultaneous driver releases for both Linux and Windows.
Nvidia also decides on their own, which features will users get and craps on their reactions. Thats the second point.
And their hardware is not universal one, like of AMD. And it became even more cut in Kepler - strictly gaming cards. Thats third.
And then,.. that old thing when they essentially bought out or bankrupted everyone except ati. Thats fourth.
But when you need good driver with good 3d and AMD gave crap (two years before),.. whats the choice left?..
Originally posted by moilami View PostI know. It means Intel drivers on GNU/Linux can be much better performance wise.
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Originally posted by marek View PostHeh, I don't even have an Intel IGP. I have recently made small changes in all gallium drivers while improving the gallium interface. I think I made about the same number of changes in each driver.
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Originally posted by crazycheese View PostNvidia driver works, it is best proprietary supported driver and it brought 3D to Linux.
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Originally posted by Hamish Wilson View PostNot quite. Nvidia brought proprietary 3D to Linux, but we had free and for the most part open 3D drivers beforehand:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4152?page=0,0
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Originally posted by Hamish Wilson View PostNot quite. Nvidia brought proprietary 3D to Linux, but we had free and for the most part open 3D drivers beforehand:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4152?page=0,0
Today, I don't see anyone doing 3D modelling on Linux using anything other than a nvidia card with proprietary drivers.
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So it would seem that a 4 year old promise is kept: the HD8000 series might be the first with launch-day support (or at least close). kudos guys. Starting a new driver from scratch with a 2 generation handicap, enabling older hardware along with new all the while enabling new features couldn't have been an easy task
No it's not done, no it's not 100% optimized, but the OSS driver is usable for basic tasks (talking about r600g, haven't tried radeonSI yet).
Serafean
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proprietary Catalyst drivers pain in the rear
Originally posted by Rexilion View PostThe general idea in this community is that opensource will solve that all on it's own (it's free!!). I'm suprised that ppl are dissapointed by the lagging support for this hardware. And are asking to donate money/manpower.
Proprietary software is being treated as it's the devil himself. Yet nVidia's driver is the best proof that proprietary works with opensource software.
Proprietary software is ethically wrong. It's holding back the progress of mankind. Think about how much faster technology progresses when software is done out in the open.
Also, it is naive to think that proprietary software is about gettings things for free. Programmers get paid to write free software. People buy hardware that is supported by free software. And companies sell support for free software. Free in this context is about freedom, not about price.
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