We’re now at a point where transitioning fully to the open-source GPU kernel modules is the right move, and we’re making that change in the upcoming R560 driver release.

89 points

Fucking finally.

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I guess the people buying pallets of $50,000 cards have had words with Nvidia over their shitty closed-source Linux drivers. It’s not like Nvidia have suddenly decided to care about Linux gamers.

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74 points

Is… is this the year of the Linux desktop?

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For me it is. I migrated my wife last week and mine is next week. AI spying is the last straw for me.

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I see you’re using your wife as a test user for yourself. Smart.

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What distro u go with?

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8 points

Mint. Cinnamon for my wife. Probably the same for me, though I’m debating XFCE.

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2 points

If you know fuck all about Linux I think maybe Mint is pretty good but I kept having issues with the auto updater so I’m on Ubuntu - where I’m also having issues with the auto updater, so just ignore that shit and update from the shell. In which case Mint is still probably the most windows-user friendly, but I don’t know that it’s by a huge margin or anything.

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8 points

It’s been the year of the linux desktop every year so far, since i’ve switched my machines to it. It is what you make of it

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5 points

Gooby pls

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3 points

Back in 2004

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53 points

You’re welcome everyone, I just bought an AMD card to replace the buggy NVIDIA card I’m using on arch btw.

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7 points

Thank you for your service o7

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2 points

I would, but a built a SFF build two years ago that supported my 2080ti. Now, no new cards will fit in my case. I ride it til it dies, but I can run Wayland as of about a month ago, so that’s nice.

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We’re open sourcing our drivers since Radeon has been doing that for decades now.

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AMchaD

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Isn’t it actually because they moved most of their driver code onto the card itself or something?

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40 points

Only 2000-series cards and newer are supported, but this is definitely a good change

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7 points

Makes me wonder if there was some critical component of the pre-rtx cards that they couldn’t open for some reason

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I’m guessing the whole point of this is to boost AI. Pre-RTX have no tensor cores, therefore it would be a waste of time to open source.

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I guess it’s the GSP which isn’t there on the pre rtx cards. Also, most of the stuff is moved into the firmware as a blob (hence the need for the GSP) so the drivers are not really open open. But it’s still a refreshing move

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Call me Mr Cynical, but I’d guess that most of the super secret licensed proprietary stuff was moved to the firmware rather than being in the drivers.

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I was kind of hoping that Pascal and Volta would still be included, given how much of a userbase still has those, however from Nvidia’s standpoint, I can kind of see it? These are almost a decade old. But either way, i’m sure they have some other corporate bullshit in mind

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Sounds like you have more issues than the driver. I would suggest looking up proper configuration for your machine

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Hey that’s pretty good, 2000 series really isn’t that new.

Can’t wait for my 3060 laptop to get those drivers

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2000 series is pretty old

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