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.
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)
This is just the open source NVidia driver… there are also official ones.
That also suck. I especially need the RTX and Tensor pipelines for my 3D rendering hobby…
I think sadly you’d either way get much better performance with proprietary drivers especially if the focus is generative AI.
Yeah.
The FOSS/Hobbyist Linux community will never stop talking about how much they hate the nvidia drivers. And… even among a buddy or two who work for nVidia, we make semi-sarcastic jokes about how “Hey, nvidia only killed my linux install once in the past few months”.
But for gaming purposes? I don’t play a lot of the cutting edge games, but even going by stuff like https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-windows11-ubuntu2304 we can see that the performance is effectively parity. ~10% hit if you are going through proton but that is the kind of noise you get from having too many chrome tabs open or whatever*. If I was still a total sicko for game performance I would care more but… I am too old for that shit. I would rather still be a first class citizen than get drivers once or twice a year but… meh.
And for research/compute/data science reasons? There is absolutely zero reason to ever use the nouveau drivers for that. If you are going to buy the expensive hardware, use the expensive hardware.
*: If you DO think 10% matters when going through a translation layer? I strongly encourage watching the Gamers Nexus response/manifesto/what the fuck here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUeZQ3pky-w as it goes into just how much variance there is between tests with the exact same hardware and software AND is Tech Jesus having a blast.
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.
What’s missing with Nvidia? I’ve never tried Wayland with AMD
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)
But, did you choose nVidia?
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.
SOUNDS LIKE IT’S TIME TO STOP PUTTING OFF LEARNING BLENDER
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 ;)
Bad situation :(
Yep.,. I am so done with the dumpster fire Microsoft calls “Q&A”…
Because back in the day when ATI had the worst Linux drivers, you were supposed to go with Nvidia. Now the tables have turned.
Having said what I said, I chose green too, because… old.
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.
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.
Are you on Windows 11 by chance?
Yes. Has worked perfectly in the beginning but started to fall apart when they started to fiddle with windows explorer…