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Originally posted by Louise View PostnVidia will win big! They haven't spend a cent developing the open source drivers.
And I am pretty sure that is their secret plan. If the Nouveau developers stopped what they do, nVidia might start releasing specs.
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Originally posted by birdie View Postwhich means > 80% of NVIDIA users will need it.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View PostHow do you figure that? You think they sold 4 times as many 8000+ GPUs than all the previous combined? Even accounting for retirement of older hardware.... many (most) linux users aren't in it for the top-end graphics anyways, which means that most are happy with a slightly older card. My guess would be that on linux, the 8000+ cards are VASTLY outnumbered by older cards.
Jokes aside see the stats on valve/steam, 8000 series NVIDIA GPUs vastly outnumber all other NVIDIA GPUs.
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Originally posted by Louise View PostBut nothing beats a full featured distribution with Compiz enabled at first boot.
Since you can't distribute a working 3D distribution for an NVidia user- they have to download/install, post installation, the working 3D support, unless you use Nouveau drivers, NVidia can't give that experience. Only Intel and AMD (after a fashion, depending on which model of card...) can give you that. Because they're FOSS.
NVidia loses because of that piece. If the FOSS support were more there with AMD or Intel had actual credible 3D chipsets, there'd be a differing story with NVidia in this space.
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Originally posted by FireBurn View PostIn this case the Nvidia binary blob still works better than any other offering for linux graphics. It has support for OpenGL 3.2 OpenCL and CUDA, mesa is playing catch up big time. Even flgrx isn't as advanced as the Nvidia blob
Mesa's the only one playing catch-up in the sense you're talking to there. Moreover...here's a hint: Unless Ryan Gordon, LGP, myself (as part of LGP or as an indie port...), or someone like Uningine's team does something with OpenGL 3.2, you're not going to see a lot of that being used for at least 6-12 months yet to come. 3.2 support's sort of nice, but it doesn't impact the card's performance, driver usability, etc.
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Originally posted by birdie View PostJokes aside see the stats on valve/steam, 8000 series NVIDIA GPUs vastly outnumber all other NVIDIA GPUs.
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Originally posted by Kano View PostYou may forget that it is even possible to install the nvidia binary in live mode (this partly is working for fglrx too but with lower success rate).
No internet or dialup kind of puts a kibosh on being able to DO that.
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