Ben Skeggs at Red Hat has long been the primary Nouveau DRM kernel driver maintainer for keeping this open-source NVIDIA GPU kernel driver within the mainline kernel going… Throughout all the battles, particularly after the GTX 900 series and later has required signed firmware images for enabling any accelerated GPU support, he’s now resigning from maintaining the driver. Ben Skeggs has contributed to the Nouveau project for more than one dedace – he’s earned references on Phoronix since 2008.

  • Norgur
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    8010 months ago

    Why NVidia?! Why do you force me to stay on Windows?! WHYYYYYYY?!

    That’s what went through my head yesterday as OneDrive threw the towel (again) and borked the whole Windows Explorer (again) so any attempt to access my own files would just freeze the Explorer-Window (again) because OneDrive tried to frantically download a folder that was deleted both locally and online (again) and OneDrive got confused (again)

    • squiblet
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      3810 months ago

      This is just the open source NVidia driver… there are also official ones.

      • Norgur
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        1910 months ago

        That also suck. I especially need the RTX and Tensor pipelines for my 3D rendering hobby…

      • @[email protected]
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        410 months ago

        Even the proprietary drivers blow chunks. Sure, gaming performance is fine, but desktop feel is just so awful compared to AMD wayland it isn’t even funny.

          • KSP Atlas
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            310 months ago

            Some things i can think of (for Wayland)

            • plymouth will either display in a very low res or not at all on nvidia systems

            • no smooth dm-de transitions

            • occasional graphical errors (although these barely exist on my hardware anymore)

            • taints kernel by loading an out-of-tree module, which breaks some stuff

            • for foss purists, oss drivers aren’t as fast as proprietary by a large margin (although nvk looks promising)

      • Norgur
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        1210 months ago

        No :(
        The (amateur) software I’m using for my hobby (DAZ 3D) almost exclusively uses NVidia Iray. Besides, since it’s a ray tracing renderer, I need ray tracing performance, a discipline AMD sucked big time when I bought my 3070.

          • Norgur
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            610 months ago

            Woah there, stop yelling! I’m not going to do that because my first child is going to be born in a month or so and going into the packed monster that is blender is just not feasible time-wise anymore ;)

          • Norgur
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            510 months ago

            Yep.,. I am so done with the dumpster fire Microsoft calls “Q&A”…

      • @[email protected]
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        810 months ago

        Because back in the day when ATI had the worst Linux drivers, you were supposed to go with Nvidia. Now the tables have turned.

        • fmstrat
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          210 months ago

          Having said what I said, I chose green too, because… old.

    • @[email protected]
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      1810 months ago

      On my work laptop, OneDrive did randomly decide to zero out all files. Even the ones in the web interface. Even the old versions, so restoring those affected files by using older versions wasn’t working. I had to rollback my whole OneDrive to a point about 2 weeks earlier and lost everything in between… Fuck OneDrive.

      • @[email protected]
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        10 months ago

        Oh, are we turning this thread into a OneDrive hate thread? Because I hate OneDrive. My work computer has one folder that when I tried to delete it, entered a permanent undefined state. OneDrive claims that it’s syncing since march. It doesn’t help that Windows Explorers defaults to syncing ALL of the user folders into OneDrive and there’s nothing I can do because it’s company wide policy. I constantly have deleted files in my Downloads folder randomly popping up after deletion.

      • Norgur
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        110 months ago

        Yes. Has worked perfectly in the beginning but started to fall apart when they started to fiddle with windows explorer…