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NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog (developer.nvidia.com)
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I'm newer to Linux gaming, but the consensus I've seen is that AMD is better on Linux. Will these actions change your mind? I already have Nvidia hardware, so an open source kernel module sounds like a win.

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Both of them have their own issues, but historically, Nvidia have been considerably worse, because they not only required a proprietary driver, but also adamantly refused to support certain features, crippling the functionality of a lot of compositors.

Today, I'm having zero issues with an Nvidia card, on Kwin/Wayland. Everything that runs in native Wayland runs flawlessly. Games through Xwayland run great too, now that explicit sync is actually there.

Worth noting that I don't have a VRR display, and don't have a card that supports frame generation. The latter just is not implemented at all, and the I've heard there are issues with the former

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do have issues with VRR on my AMD gpu too though, so that's not strictly exclusive to nvidia.

[–] zelifcam@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no-you-cant-make-an-open-source-hdmi-2-1-driver/

Is why I can’t use AMD. My primary display is a TV. Yea, there are large monitors with Display Ports, but they didn’t exist until recently and most if not all are inferior to a high quality TV in picture quality.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

cant you just use a DP to HDMI adapter to get hdmi out?

[–] zelifcam@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately not. Seems like an obvious fix, but you lose features, if it even works at all.

[–] tomten@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AMD has been open source since late 2017?

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Not what I meant. I've reworded the original post to clarify