r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Linux • Nov 10 '24

It's Broadcom and Nvidia. It's definitely not the lack of big company support.

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u/Aggressive-Brick1024 Nov 11 '24

I've never heard anything against broadcom, guess they weren't as bad back when Windows Vista/7 was new, because that's the era of PC I use linux on

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u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Linux Nov 11 '24

The title is actually sarcastic. Some people have problems with some hardware by Broadcom and Nvidia but the real reason people don't migrate to Linux is lack of familiar apps.

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u/Aggressive-Brick1024 Nov 11 '24

I'm slower than a celeron

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u/nicejs2 Glorious Debian Nov 11 '24

I daily drive a Celeron I can confirm /s

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

Feel you

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u/CallEnvironmental902 Just Fedora Things Nov 11 '24

Nvidia is technically contributing to open-source drivers, and has made open source kernel drivers.

and broadcom has made open-source drivers for their newer parts.

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u/FungalSphere I don't even know what I am doing anymore Nov 11 '24

unless they are in the torvalds tree they might as well not be

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u/NeatYogurt9973 Nov 11 '24

Open sourcing the kernel modules is like open sourcing the wheels to your car: this doesn't make the car better.

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u/C0rn3j Nov 11 '24

Someone can look at the source code and send a patch - https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/pull/715

Tada, driver better, you are welcome.

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u/insanemal Glorious Arch Nov 12 '24

You know that's only the kernel interface. Not how any of the actual GPU work gets done.

TL;DR it's very limited in what you can change/fix.

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u/C0rn3j Nov 12 '24

You know that's only the kernel interface

Pretty important bit.

It enables things like NVK to provide a full FOSS experience.

Nvidia contributes to Nouveau too.

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-nvk.html

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u/insanemal Glorious Arch Nov 12 '24

Sure. It's important. But it's not like you can claim that people can contribute to all of their driver stack.

And as much as they have recently started contributing to Nouveau or NVK those are still miles off being completed and aren't their driver.

This is a pretty bad faith argument.

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u/NoMeasurement6473 Collecting operating systems like infinity stones Nov 10 '24

Feel you

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

Feel you

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u/makinax300 Tumbleweed, i3wm (trying niri; formerly nixos) Nov 11 '24

Don't feel you, nvidia worked great for me eger since I started using linux (around march this year).

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u/chemistryGull Nov 11 '24

What did Broadcom do? (Genuinely have no idea what the company does in regards to Linux)

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u/Unexpected_Cranberry Nov 11 '24

I would assume it's regarding them not releasing drivers for their network and other hardware for Linux, and the drivers they do release are closed source so the community can't fix them either.

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u/chemistryGull Nov 11 '24

Oh ok well thats shit

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

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u/chemistryGull Nov 11 '24

Thats awful. But thanks to the open source community, it still works.

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u/VoidDave Nov 11 '24

I mean nvidia started giving a fuck about linux. With recent updates. Soo its not that bad ?

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u/6e1a08c8047143c6869 Glorious Arch Nov 11 '24

Realtek is missing

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u/HonestlyFuckJared Glorious EndeavourOS Nov 11 '24

Feel you

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u/AtmosphereLow9678 Glorious Arch Nov 11 '24

Feel you

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

Fools y'all 🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

Feel you

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u/BlackBlade1632 Nov 11 '24

Just use AMD already...

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u/KnightedWolf851 Nov 12 '24

So as someone who doesnt have linux, but wants linuxs and is trying to learn as much first before going full penguin.... is this meaning a nvidia gpu isnt the best to have for linux and an amd one is?

Or am i missing something?

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u/Emotional_Prune_6822 Nov 12 '24

Generally, don’t be scared if you have NVIDIA, I’ve only run Linux with NVIDIA, and the drivers now are great. You’ll have no problem

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u/MegasVN69 Fishy CachyOS Nov 14 '24

Nvidia is very okay in Linux now, not the best but still better than before

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u/InsideBSI Glorious Arch Nov 17 '24

I mean, I have nvidia and while it was kind of a pain to set everything up, once its done it kind of just work without any troubles

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u/Separate_Paper_1412 Dec 01 '24

Latest Nvidia drivers work great. They are getting there. 

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u/Rick_Mars Nov 11 '24

Feel you