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@kbin.social
    8011·
    1 year 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)

      • Norgur@kbin.social
        227·
        1 year ago

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

        • gorogorochan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          I think sadly you’d either way get much better performance with proprietary drivers especially if the focus is generative AI.

          • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            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.

      • Zeron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        97·
        1 year 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.

      • Norgur@kbin.social
        132·
        1 year 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@kbin.social
            6·
            1 year 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 ;)

      • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 year 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.

    • elvith@feddit.deEnglish
      15·
      1 year 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.

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        1 year 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@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

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