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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.
    okanat · 1791141837 · focus · HN ↗
    Having two Mesa installations at once is how you summon dragons to fight. The FOSS Linux ecosystem doesn't really play well with multiple versions of libraries.

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