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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not really surprised when you see how badly NVidia drivers are supported on Linux outside the proprietary ones…

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, saw that right after, reason why I deleted my comment. Might not have been spread all over yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think it deletes for anyone on an instance different from you so you being on world means that it will always show up for me who is on sh.itjust.works

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The closed source ones were good enough for quite a while; it was amd's closed source ones that were mediocre.

Course now that wayland is around Nvidia bungled their support for it ( trying to force their standard rather than what had been accepted by others), and Amd's open drivers have been solid the entire time afaik.