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The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

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wewewedxfgdf · 1791070970 · focus · HN ↗
If only AMD did this.
1. bigyabai · 1791076865 · focus · HN ↗
  AMD supports Mesa precisely so that enthusiasts can do this.
  Nvidia doesn't, and their Vulkan stack underperforms on Linux quite significantly.
  1. pjmlp · 1791093999 · focus · HN ↗
    Except VFX and Hollywood have no qualms using proprietary drivers.
    simoncion · 1791096623 · focus · HN ↗
    Even proprietary drivers can use Mesa. Most of Mesa is MIT-licensed.
    It's just that Nvidia doesn't care much about Linux, and -as always- Nvidia ignores what everyone else is doing and does their own thing. Sometimes doing their own thing works out really well in the short run, but -long term- they always fall behind.
    pjmlp · 1791099368 · focus · HN ↗
    They care about Linux, on their own distribution and licensing terms, NVidia even has their own distro.
    Like most FOSS done by companies, what they don't care is GPL, which sadly will eventually be meaningless after boomer and Gen X devs that created the GNU movement no longer walk this plane.
    There isn't a single embedded OS FOSS alternative to GNU/Linux that uses GPL, including Linux Foundation's own Zephyr.

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