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I'm joining the Wayland club on Nvidia (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I run proprietary Nvidia drivers as well and Wayland runs so much better than Xorg now that I'm permanently coming over to Wayland. I'm extremely happy rn with Wayland

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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Bought a new AMD GPU to run Wayland. Here's to NVIDIA getting their shit together or, more likely, going bankrupt.

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's hilarious. ๐Ÿ˜„ Linux users dropping Nvidia en-masse would be like a half a percent blip on their desktop market share. Probably couldn't even tell if it's a rounding error.

This is a company that's speculated to drop the desktop consumer market altogether at some point. They make so much money from other industries it's obscene. I suspect they only keep the gaming and desktop crowd around for the drama and the publicity. They don't really give a shit anymore.

Which would be sad in a way because Linux gaming was built on Nvidia. For the longest time it was the one manufacturer you could count on to be there and deliver decent, accelerated Linux drivers consistently.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well to be fair, most AI workloads are on Linux and that's a huge fraction of their sales. But desktop Linux, yeah, not going to notice at all.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I suspect that's the main reason they've bothered supporting the desktop Linux crowd, we act as free testers for their more lucrative Linux-based deals.

Let's say there's half a million Nvidia Linux desktop users, that's super few if you think of them as desktop customers, but they're worth gold as free QA people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Consider all the gamers with more money than sense buying 4090s for the price of cars and, more importantly, many companies buying datacenter cards for their next generative AI project (not that I think many of them will last).

I don't see Nvidia running out of money any time soon.