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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
OK, maybe you wouldn’t pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?
Besides, why not use native Linux as the primary operating system on this new chip family? Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn’t. It’s that simple.
Nowadays, Linux runs well with Nvidia chips. Recent benchmarks show that open-source Linux graphic drivers work with Nvidia GPUs as well as its proprietary drivers.
Even Linus Torvalds thinks Nvidia has gotten its open-source and Linux act together. In August 2023, Torvalds said, “Nvidia got much more involved in the kernel. Nvidia went from being on my list of companies who are not good to my list of companies who are doing really good work.”
No, they’re not, and I wish people would stop repeating this. If you want to do anything in userspace, it’s still proprietary, Nouveau, or NVK, the second of which has never been comparable and the third of which is still in development (though showing a lot of promise). What is basically at feature parity is the kernel drivers, which if the author had read their source, they’d already know. Kernelspace ≠ Userspace.
However, I will agree that even with the proprietary driver, most people will have a comparable experience to anyone with an AMD card. Hell, I can even use my old laptop with an integrated 960M to play the same games it has always been able to play. Linux has become more available to more people than ever, and it’s only going to continue to get better.
I can only speak from personal experience, but NVIDIA with Wayland has been an absolute mess. My system seems to be stable right now, but there are still weird graphical glitches and artifacts when running games through WINE. Every third or fourth driver update seems to break something.
Also, I’d generally be skeptical of claims that the drivers work well due to “benchmarks.” A benchmark isn’t going to tell you that, for example, certain window elements fail to render entirely until you drag the mouse over them, at which point they suddenly flicker in.
i had a terrible experience too but this is with laptop mind you.
since people are often saying nvidia is just fine I’m starting to believe my problem is the mux switching and not even the gpu itself… but since I’m not an expert i can’t be sure…
As with anything, YMMV. I’m curious why you’re running games through Wine though. Proton seems to be the better option for gaming.
I use Proton for Steam and Bottles for everything else. I was using WINE as a catchall term, since all of these technologies are fundamentally built on top of it.
Gotcha. I figured that was the case, but I didn’t want to assume, since they’re not technically synonymous.
As someone who doesn’t follow this stuff closely, I appreciate the clarification!
Its nice to hear from someone with more hands on experience. Hope you have a good one :)