if the problem is outdated mesa versions, why not blacklist those outdated mesa versions instead of blacklisting the driver?
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Originally posted by linner View PostNouveau and all of the AMD drivers suck hard-core, practically unusable. The nVIdia proprietary driver is not perfect but it's the best thing out there and always has been.
The nVidia proprietary drivers do work, but force you to stick with certain older kernel and X releases.
My experience with nouveau has been almost entirely negative however.
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Originally posted by linner View PostSame for Windows using the proprietary AMD stuff. So buggy, glitchy, crashy, just terrible.
I wouldn't even be running AMD but I have a whole bunch of AMD cards left over from the old mining days.
I rarely use my RX580 on Linux these days and mostly through DRI_PRIME, but on Windows / Mac VMs it's work flawlessly.
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Originally posted by debianxfce View Post
Proprietary drivers sucks, you need to patch for new kernels or wait several weeks, no easy way to roll back, no X running while installing, no way to fix bugs by yourself. AMD open source drivers runs fine and beats nvidia blobs, see phoronix benchmarks.
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I guess this decision is based on outdated open source drivers used in the Google Linux distro used internally within the company.
Sure Nouveau is unstable on some hardware, but then there are a lot of driver bug workarounds that they've added for Android, Windows, Mac OS etc. sometimes even for specific hardware and devices, specific driver versions. So it's not like they can't do that for Nouveau (or accept contributions for the same).
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Originally posted by linner View PostIs Wayland more stable that X? I'm running it on X and it glitches out all the time.
For example I have to restart Firefox several times a day because the graphics start glitching all over the screen. My nVidia machines running the nVidia driver never have anything like that.
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