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[marios]

An interesting, but heretic, use for such things is for single gpu passthrough. Although it is currently doable, you have to kill everything that uses...

[marios]

I am using it for only a few years, so I do not know what was going on before. Currently, most packages are up to date, but not all. There are even, some...

[marios]

As a Gentoo user, the only flaws I can find for Gentoo are:
0. The recent decision to drop Libressl. It has some reasons, but I hate this decision....

[marios]

As an unhappy nvidia user (too bad I can't update because amd cards are currently out of stock or overpriced), I say that it deserve much more toxici...

[marios]

Saying that youtube violates the freedom of speech is neither nazi nor trumpist. It is a fact.
I have some greek content in mind, that is clearly...

[marios]

0. Do you have any proof that the oss AMD driver is crappy?
1. Works amazingly well? Lol, a few months ago, it required an outdated kernel.
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[marios]

The blob is also horrible. And there is no good proprietary NV driver for Linux either, only less awful than nouveau....

[marios]

Sharing common code for platforms is ok. What nvidia does is not.
Different platforms have different interfaces, and some things do not match. For...

[marios]

Is there any evidence that nvidia has decent performance (this is implied at the post)?
I have evidence that nvidia's performance sucks (posted...

[marios]

Will 2021 bring the good old Linus back?
I sure hope so but I am not so optimistic that a single rant is strong enough evidence that Torvalds is...

[marios]

Not a fair comparison?
What if I tell you I expect the vanilla kernel to have even worse performance? For example neither O3 optimizations nor march=znver1...

[marios]

Their blob is not even decent by the way. Actually it is a piece of crapware. Nvidia's performance in Linux is worse than unacceptable. It is even significantly...