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KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 1984 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is Nvidia fault, no?

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ye but people don't want to accept that the company charging $5000 for a GPU is also too stubborn and lazy to pay any devs to write decent drivers

[–] Sentau@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I don't get. AMD has driver issues on windows because of a combination of their own incompetence and windows updates doing stupid windows things - people squarely lay the the blame on AMD. NVIDIA releases bad closed source drivers causing issues on linux - somehow the fault of linux and the open source communities.

These people should be hounding NVIDIA to fix their issues instead crying to DE developers to fix issues caused by NVIDIA.

[–] chayleaf@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because in Windows, blame doesn't solve problems. You can blame Microsoft, or you can blame AMD, but either way nothing will change. In Linux, there's some level of accountability because almost all software has maintainers (if not, you can step up personally). Similarly, you can't hold Nvidia accountable on Linux - best you can do is not buy their GPUs.