[GTALUG] I guess I should buy a new video card

[Steve Litt]

Evan Leibovitch via talk said on Sat, 10 Aug 2024 14:47:04 -0400

>On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 1:08 PM Lennart Sorensen via talk
><talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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>> I guess they have gotten a bit better since.  But it has been a lot
>> of really bad work to get over.  They have made good hardware, but
>> wow their driver team has been terrible for a very long time.  Maybe
>> they finally got that part right too.  
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>In this decade, focusing solely on OS hardware drivers is a mistake
>when evaluating current GPU offerings ... depending on your intended
>use.

Radeon makes their API available to Free Software authors. Nvidia does
not, so sometimes you can't find a proprietary or FOSS driver that
doesn't intermittently do bad things.


SteveT

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