I think you’re absolutely right at the high-end, but if I have a cheaper or older machine (especially laptop) and I’m not going to play AAA games on it anyway, this driver could eventually lead to decent performance with even greater stability than the proprietary ones.
Sure, I guess? But I also feel like the further you go down that list the more stable things are already, especially if you’re willing to go shopping for distros that offer specific Nvidia-focused variants.
I’m also not super clear on what “high end” means in Linux circles, because a bunch of the Nvidia-proprietary features in question have been in place for over half a decade now and are tied to generations, not how expensive the cards are.
At some point you need to develop the ability to catch up to the proprietary side of things, which means progressing faster than they iterate. I’m not keyed in to day-to-day updates to the point where I can tell if that’s the case, but from the stuff that reaches me organically that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening so far.
I think you’re absolutely right at the high-end, but if I have a cheaper or older machine (especially laptop) and I’m not going to play AAA games on it anyway, this driver could eventually lead to decent performance with even greater stability than the proprietary ones.
Sure, I guess? But I also feel like the further you go down that list the more stable things are already, especially if you’re willing to go shopping for distros that offer specific Nvidia-focused variants.
I’m also not super clear on what “high end” means in Linux circles, because a bunch of the Nvidia-proprietary features in question have been in place for over half a decade now and are tied to generations, not how expensive the cards are.
At some point you need to develop the ability to catch up to the proprietary side of things, which means progressing faster than they iterate. I’m not keyed in to day-to-day updates to the point where I can tell if that’s the case, but from the stuff that reaches me organically that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening so far.
Could it though?
I meant in the sense of could possibly, but I don’t have a guess on how likely.
I am extrapolating on the stability thing just based on the language it’s coded in, which isn’t any kind of guarantee, but I think it is a good sign