Google Devs Call Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Unstable, Nouveau Blacklisted By Chrome

[SXX⁣]

Same 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.

It's just amazing how you trying put blame for your overheated hardware on AMD when you're likely have issues with memory corruption or BGA degradation.

I rarely use my RX580 on Linux these days and mostly through DRI_PRIME, but on Windows / Mac VMs it's work flawlessly.

[NateHubbard]

Nouveau 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.

I've been running the AMD drivers very successfully one a pretty wide range of hardware for some time now.
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.

[hotaru]

if the problem is outdated mesa versions, why not blacklist those outdated mesa versions instead of blacklisting the driver?

[linner]

You clearly have not used OSS AMD drivers in many years. In a word, excellent.

I'm using it right now and there is a flickering checkerboard glitching square about 200x200 pixels on two of my monitors. This machine also has a nVIdia card driving two other monitors, everything perfect there.

About 5 minutes ago a Windows VM using a passthrough AMD GPU just bluescreened running some simple OpenGL code I'm working on. I've rebooted the same machine with a nVidia card passed through, works great. AMD sucks.

[boombatower]

Nouveau 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.

You clearly have not used OSS AMD drivers in many years. In a word, excellent.

[bwat47]

Nouveau 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 driver is great if you love booting to a black screen.

It has good gaming performance, but outside of that it's brittle and breaks your system if you even look at it wrong

The best gpu drivers on linux are intel. They 'just work' better than anything else.

[DooMMasteR]

Guest Intel drivers are crap.
they crash all the time and performance is just non existent.
At least performance might improve when Intel switches to Mesa... But still the core render stuff is crap

[Machine]

Running amdpgu drive on Gnome Wayland stable on daily basis debunk the "practically unusable" claim. Nouveau development is held hostage by nVidia attitude.

I also have been using an AMD with no issues. I wonder what issues the original poster had?
edit I also have Nvidia in a Windows System, I had tried using Nvidia on Linux a while back but too many headaches

[dungeon]

...except that some people had some issues with indeterminate hardware and indeterminate versions of mesa.

Well, people should learn to use stable kernels and mesas But not even first releases of these stables

On Debian Buster and AMDGPU i am using 4.19.13 kernel and Mesa 18.2.8, LLVM 7.0.1 of course... and none probs there

But even if these ultra stables are broken for somebody then i guess Google have right here

edit: Remember that Google uses Debian testing so Buster as base for their internal gLinux distro and they do care about longterm 4.19 kernel also, so if that recent ultra stable combo is still broken here for somebody (and even if by switching to Mesa 18.3.1 is still borked and doesn't fix problems) they get opinion and go to blacklisting as final measure... no one care there if git main non-versions of drivers are broken or working somewhere

Of course such an non average Joe user, could do random gitorous and variabiles... but who cares about that

linner - Intel GPU drivers are also pretty awesome, and just work.