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[–] tekato@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s NVIDIA’s fault for refusing to adopt the agreed upon methods for rendering graphics on Linux. They tried to force EGLStreams on everybody for almost a decade while knowing GBM was better.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely, I'm not blaming any Wayland implementation about this, just giving my current situation as an example.

I do so because I imagine it's a popular setup (according to https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-vs-nvidia-which-more-popular-linux based on ProtonDB data, more than 60% Linux gamers had an NVIDIA GPU) and thus might prevent adoption.

I hope NVIDIA will fix that. Maybe a push from Valve would help.

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Unfortunately most consumers buy NVIDIA, even though they only care about the enterprise sector.