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What is the current state of Nvidia's open source drivers? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm on KDE Plasma with Nvidia and Wayland with the proprietary 530 drivers but really the experience (due to Nvidia's own fault) doesn't feel polished at all although it's very smooth, but the fact of having to be constantly switching between Xorg and Wayland because one or another program doesn't behave the way it should in Wayland (frameskipping, blank screen, tearing) and I was thinking if using the open source drivers could fix something or make it worse.

I remember testing the open source drivers some time ago and running the Terraria compilation for Linux was not working well at all, and that being a native Linux compilation, maybe the Proton version would have worked better.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly at this point I think that before Nvidia does something to fix these problems we as users are going to switch to an AMD GPU.

I think we have been waiting too long and nothing happens, Nvidia must have possibly bigger interests than fixing their driver in Linux, I have been since 2020 with Linux and the Plasma experience with the proprietary driver in Xorg is still the same, I could believe that it is Plasma's fault for being badly polished but no, or worse, that it is Linux's fault, when it is Nvidia's fault for their disinterest.

And I know that practically nobody can say overnight that they are going to buy a new GPU to have a polished experience, and that's exactly what I mean, because maybe someone with an average salary will take 5 years to buy a new GPU, and in 5 years the situation with Nvidia will be the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

one problem imo is that in nvidias view, their “linux drivers” is just CUDA, since that’s the majority of the market share, and those systems are mostly headless compute nodes anyway the desktop experience might not be worth supporting