this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
1020 points (98.9% liked)

memes

14780 readers
4224 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right, Nvidia used to be a nightmare on Linux. Not just unstable bad, often times just unuseably bad for me. Even the closed drivers are a lot better nowadays though, but I think older Nvidia support is still not great.

I've also been using Linux for over a decade at this point, but only switched to it as my main gaming machine fairly recently. I always had issues with stupid Nvidia bullshit before, until finally I found Bazzite which was working great even in the period when Nvidia drivers were still a bit unstable, especially on wayland. Honestly I'm not even sure why I still got an Nvidia gpu last time.

I’m not sure how it could really qualify for an antitrust lawsuit

This would sound to me like they'd somehow unlock more performance with their own gpu than is available for other brands, so they're giving their own hardware an unfair advantage.

But thinking about it a bit more now, I realise that could probably be prevented by trademarking or patenting the technology they use to do that or something.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Hah, I too am using Bazzite, at least on a Steam Deck.

And yeah, if... having a propietary hardware tech with proprietary software that utilized it was somehow a legal argument for 'you are a monopoly'...

Then Nvidia would have a very obvious monopoly on the real time ray tracing tech, and should thus be broken up.

Then MSFT should be broken up for owning DirectX, and not open sourcing it. Proton and Vulkan wouldn't need to exist.