Somewhere, somebody’s having a meltdown because Rust is spreading more and more in the kernel.
Good to see that NVIDIA is writing opensource drivers (or starting to). I guess it’s too much to ask to support old graphics cards, with NVIDIA mostly caring about money and a linux driver being an incentive to choose NVIDIA over AMD for some.
Somewhere, somebody’s having a meltdown because Rust is spreading more and more in the kernel.
Probably more than just one somebody, based on the drama in these last few week’s. 😜
Good to see that NVIDIA is writing opensource drivers (or starting to). I guess it’s too much to ask to support old graphics cards, with NVIDIA mostly caring about money and a linux driver being an incentive to choose NVIDIA over AMD for some.
It’s too bad that there’s still a proprietary binary layer that this driver will talk to. (I’m assuming right/wrong that it’s not open source, since it’s binary.)
Best to support AMD if you game on Linux. Really wish Intel would step up their GPU game.
It’s too bad that there’s still a proprietary binary layer that this driver will talk to. (I’m assuming right/wrong that it’s not open source, since it’s binary.)
I must’ve missed that from in the post. Do you have more information on that?
One of the (now ex) maintainers by the name of Christoph Hellwig said that they don’t want multiple languages in their area of the kernel because it becomes hard to maintain, and specifically called out the fact that it wasn’t targeted at Rust - they would have rejected Assembly too. The Rust developer by the name of Hector (can’t remember his last name) pushing the change took it as a personal attack, flipped his shit and quit after trying to attack Christoph and get him removed for describing the introduction of another language as being akin to a “cancer.”
Then Linus came in, noticed that the change wasn’t actually pushing any non-C code into the kernel and told the maintainer that it wasn’t his area to block in the first place, and that he has no place telling others what to do outside of the kernel.
So we lost a kernel maintainer and a Rust developer over one issue.
I’ve bought two AMD GPUs in the last two years but I still have three Nvidia GPUs that I use. The cost of moving everything over to AMD is high so it just takes time to get rid of old hardware as a best case scenario.
The cost of moving everything over to AMD is high so it just takes time to get rid of old hardware as a best case scenario.
Totally understand. I hang on to my current GPU for as long as I can before switching to a new one (fiveish years), especially these days.
Having said that, if your goal is to move to Linux for gaming, best to go with a whole AMD setup if possible. Also a distro that updates often but is not bleeding edge. (For me, Fedora/KDE.)
Somewhere, somebody’s having a meltdown because Rust is spreading more and more in the kernel.
Good to see that NVIDIA is writing opensource drivers (or starting to). I guess it’s too much to ask to support old graphics cards, with NVIDIA mostly caring about money and a linux driver being an incentive to choose NVIDIA over AMD for some.
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Probably more than just one somebody, based on the drama in these last few week’s. 😜
It’s too bad that there’s still a proprietary binary layer that this driver will talk to. (I’m assuming right/wrong that it’s not open source, since it’s binary.)
Best to support AMD if you game on Linux. Really wish Intel would step up their GPU game.
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I must’ve missed that from in the post. Do you have more information on that?
Anti Commercial-AI license
One of the (now ex) maintainers by the name of Christoph Hellwig said that they don’t want multiple languages in their area of the kernel because it becomes hard to maintain, and specifically called out the fact that it wasn’t targeted at Rust - they would have rejected Assembly too. The Rust developer by the name of Hector (can’t remember his last name) pushing the change took it as a personal attack, flipped his shit and quit after trying to attack Christoph and get him removed for describing the introduction of another language as being akin to a “cancer.”
Then Linus came in, noticed that the change wasn’t actually pushing any non-C code into the kernel and told the maintainer that it wasn’t his area to block in the first place, and that he has no place telling others what to do outside of the kernel.
So we lost a kernel maintainer and a Rust developer over one issue.
I’ve bought two AMD GPUs in the last two years but I still have three Nvidia GPUs that I use. The cost of moving everything over to AMD is high so it just takes time to get rid of old hardware as a best case scenario.
Totally understand. I hang on to my current GPU for as long as I can before switching to a new one (fiveish years), especially these days.
Having said that, if your goal is to move to Linux for gaming, best to go with a whole AMD setup if possible. Also a distro that updates often but is not bleeding edge. (For me, Fedora/KDE.)
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This is True. I spend most of my gaming time on Bazzite with a 7800xt Nitro+ GPU. Works great 10/10.