KDE Lands NVIDIA Hardware Cursor Support & Other Last Minute Plasma 6.0 Features

[avis]

So NVIDIA f*** you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2lhwb_OckQ&t=5

Six posts in 4 years and so little on anything valuable and worthy?

My condolences.

Nvidia is laughing about your immature hatred all the way to the bank. Yet another open source no one being all righteous about the obscure OS you've chosen but haven't helped improve a single bit.

[Vistaus]

This was done by a Nvidia developer. Wether he did it on behalf of his employer or on his own time is not clear.

I don't know about the USA, but here in the Netherlands, if you develop something in your spare time that the company you work for benefits from or is somehow related to said company, it's still considered employee work.

[sophisticles]

So NVIDIA f*** you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2lhwb_OckQ&t=5

It's too bad Linux doesn't follow his own advice.

[sophisticles]

I don't know about the USA, but here in the Netherlands, if you develop something in your spare time that the company you work for benefits from or is somehow related to said company, it's still considered employee work.

It depends on the employee contract you sign. There is the concept of "work for hire", meaning that anything you produce on the job is owned by the company, but the gray areas are things like salaried employees that are technically always on the clock, employees that are given company computers to take home, employees that are taught special skills or provided with expensive software, things like that.

What happens is that when you get an employment offer there is an agreement that spells out these things, usually it's heavily slanted towards the employer, but an employee that is highly sought after does have some leverage.

[ezst036]

I've been on Radeon 780m for half a year already.

For half a year your Wayland experience has been much better now than it used to be on your Nvidia cards.

It's good to know that you upgraded. Now we know your Wayland experience is also improved.

[Hazel]

Six posts in 4 years and so little on anything valuable and worthy?

So you think _your_ commenta are valuable? I prefer to write less but at least make sense.

Sense dude, sense.

[Vistaus]

It's good to know that you upgraded. Now we know your Wayland experience is also improved.

I wouldn't count on that. It improves chances for sure, but it's no guarantee. On my previous device, an Intel-only laptop (model year 2018), I couldn't get Wayland to run at all. On my current PC with AMD, I am using Wayland. However, my dad uses a PC with AMD as well and we can't get Wayland to run. And his PC is even newer than mine (mine is from late 2021 (model year 2021), his is from earlier this year (model year 2022 or 2023)).

[gentlegeek]

Wish list for KDE: let me duplicate panels to a different display so I don't have to set the same one up 4 times 😂 or has someone solved that already and I don't know about it yet?

[jeisom]

AFAIK the only NVidia specific features that even work on Linux are CUDA and their encoder. Both are definitely useful for a variety of reasons, but the number of people who actually depend on those features at home has to be a fraction of 1% of people.

DLSS 3.5 works as well except for frame generation. Obviously FSR is available as an alternative in many games.

[RonDamon]

It's too bad Linux doesn't follow his own advice.

Nvidia is the most used GPU on Windows by far. If Linux wants users, it has to support it, unless it wants to stay at 2% of users forever.