If you use a rolling/half rolling release like Tumbleweed/Fedora, Nouveau is pretty usable and it progresses. That is unless you are a gamer or do AI stuff. It is Nvidia who had to provide an open source driver to their customers. I don’t think Nvidia customers figure they are customers, not beggars as they don’t demand it. That even includes governments and the military.
Waiting for nvidia to not write the worst firmware ever with so many obfuscated shit that allows the real chad reverse engineers of noveau project to create free software firmware from it.
Yup. You know it’s not the closed source drivers that annoy me. It’s the fact they don’t mesh well with mesa. Ergo certain features (eg. opengl and vulkan acceleration of virtual machines) just don’t make it to nvidia cards unless you use the shitty driver.
Alright how the fuck is that pronounced, im tired of seeing this word everywhere and saying it in my head like 8 times wondering if im pronouncing it right
I think they just got a huge boost from the vulkan thing and with open Nvidia modules. But the tests seemed to indicate it was still something like 60% of the performance and only on some specific cards. Sad.
It would be so nice if the Nvidia situation was as good as AMD situation or especially Intel situation right now.
And the worst part: if you have actual needs for ML stuff - you kinda are stuck with nvidia cards, so you can’t even switch when the need for upgrades arise.
I’m not sure if we’re ever going to get the full potential of a card out of NVK, but the fact that running them above base clock is now possible is pretty huge already.
(Unless I misunderstood something, but I believe that’s now a thing)
When I was new to linux, I followed a guide on youtube and didn’t know I installed noveau instead of nvidia. I couldn’t watch any yt video without massive screen tearing. I thought it was arch linux problem. I wish there was an easier guide out there for new users. Arch wiki is super good but navigating it as a beginner is a bit hard in my opinion.
New Linux users usually do not use Arch though. Arch doesn’t advertise itself as friendly to new Linux users. This problem doesn’t exist on distros that cater to new Linux users such as Mint. If you insist on using an Arch-based system, then just use endeavour os which also handles Nvidia drivers automatically.
Yep. I agree. I forgot to mention I did use ubuntu as my first distro. I was not a fan of it after the snap thing. Maybe this problem would be solved with cosmic os.
I’m a fairly recent convert to Linux (currently trying out Fedora). I thought GNOME was trash and I didn’t get why anyone used it until I realized that the nvidia kernel wasn’t loading any it was defaulting back to noveau.
Fixed that problem and now all the DEs that I’ve tried seem beautiful and fast, including GNOME.
Arch install is really nice. I use it pretty regularly now. It definitely is very good rn. But I wish there was a small webpage kinda thing that explains os, de, wm and drivers to new users. Archinstall is definitely a step in the right direction.
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