System update in #OpenSuse #Tumbleweed - nice.

[natanox@chaos.social]

System update in #OpenSuse #Tumbleweed - nice.
Nvidia driver not loaded again - not nice.

Some things never change. Well, with the new driver Nvidia works on they might…
#Linux

[monkee@chaos.social]

@Natanox i've been avoiding nvidia for ages cause they forced their logo on bootup upon me

Been happy with AMD since.

[natanox@chaos.social]

@monkee I got a more capable used laptop. There's literally no dedicated AMD graphics in that market right now, even with new laptops you usually have to specifically look for devices with mobile AMD chips.

[monkee@chaos.social]

@Natanox AH - i mostly work or Game on my Desktop.

For my use case integrated graphics are enough on my Laptop. Still have an old rather cheap Acer with AMD Vega Graphics i rarely use.

So i suspect NVIDIA still tries to force their closed driver and does not really support the opensource ones?

[natanox@chaos.social]

@monkee Well, no. They actually began contributing to nouveau and work on their own open-source driver (see "nvk") that works nicely with the Linux ecosystem because their proprietary driver blob is way beyond saving.

Unfortunately nvk isn't there yet. Comparable to Intel ARC drivers, really; both are new and rapidly improving, but not yet optimal.

[natanox@chaos.social]

@monkee If I understood correctly nouveau should become the default for "legacy" cards at some point (anything that isn't RTX) while nvk takes over for modern GPUs.

[monkee@chaos.social]

@Natanox would be very cool to have a real opensource driver actually supported by nvidia. I always hated the proprietary driver. (loong ago )

Thanks for the update! had no clue about nvk sounds like they are on the right track finally.

[natanox@chaos.social]

@monkee Still, they are a shitty company. They most likely only do this now because they saw the mobile PC / handheld market being kickstarted with the Steam Deck and companies like Valve telling them their driver is hot shit. Any handheld-PC is using either AMD or Intel for good reason. I don't think any "gaming handheld" being announced so far is using an Nvidia chip, especially not now as Valve opens a new market for "SteamOS devices". SteamOS does not support Nvidia at all.