A daily reminder: Fuck NVIDIA
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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Nvidia was worth $1,030,000,000,000 today, but still can't get their drivers in the kernel.
And it's not because Linux has 1% marketshare, because Nvidia still bends over backwards to get their drivers working on Linux for ML training
Nvidia was worth $1,030,000,000,000 today, but still can’t get their drivers in the kernel.
tbf that valuation is not really realistic IMO, the ps ratio (valuation divided by income) is 31 , when the average is about 2.4. Its probably overly enthusiastic nvidia customers paying that kind of price. if everybody decide they want to sell all their nvidia shares , $1,030,000,000,000 probably won't be the price.
If they do something , they need to have a business case for their shareholder saying it helps profits (stuff like pension funds and mutual funds, Jensen Huang the ceo and founder reportedly owns 3.6% so he can still get fired).
If they spent X money (say in term of engineering hours) they need to expect a profit of at least somewhere around 1.1x.
TL;DR buy AMD, or at least threaten them you won't buy nvidia.
Fixed the infamous issue of Panels visually freezing in the Plasma Wayland session
OH MY GOD I CAN RETURN TO WAYLAND. perfect
Nice, cant wait to have this
Oh thank gosh! Will certainly be happy to see that.
Now if only I could find a way to fix the weird rendering issue that happens with Electron apps... and by a similar nature, screen sharing in Discord (on a whole screen-basis, rather than just only XWayland apps). Couldn't get that to work even with xwaylandvideobridge. But, those aren't KDE specific issues.
I'm looking forward to the day I get to eventually just move off of Nvidia hardware.
I’m looking forward to the day I get to eventually just move off of Nvidia hardware.
I accidentally ordered my Nvidia card. I had the one I'd been recommended open in a tab so I could compare AMD cards to it and ordered the wrong one! Instead of doing what I should have done and returning it and ordering the AMD, I thought how bad can it be? Well now I know!
Thank God this bug has been so fucking annoying!!
Indeed, I have to run Alt-space "plasmashell --replace" almost hourly.
Overall I'm happy with NVidia+Wayland except for this bug, but it has been quite bothersome.
Interestingly the bug have also been seen on AMD GPU, thus why the title is " Plasma panel visually (but not functionally) freezing on Wayland with Basic render loop and Non-Intel GPU when Task Manager previews are turned on".