On 16/10/2020 11.29, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Am Freitag, 16. Oktober 2020, 01:54:00 CEST schrieb Michal Kubecek:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 02:38:19PM +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Self-crippling comes to my mind.
Yes, "self-crippling" is probably the most fitting term for users who decided to ignore the long existing (20 years?) licensing problem and keep buying NVidia hardware because they believe it's their right to demand someone to "just make it work somehow" (i.e. do some dark magic to mask the incompatibility) so that they can keep pretending the problem does not exist.
Even more fitting for those who do it on a rolling distribution with latest kernel like Tumbleweed.
Michal, I share your sediments from deep inside my open source heart, but..
All those kids, that came to me this year to buy/build a PC (I do this from time to time for pedagogical reasons) have a list in their hands with must have equipment, and guess what's *always* on position Nr. 1:
NVIDIA GTX 20{70,80,90}
depending on their budget and granted, they never want to discuss the manufacturer part of the story. About 30% get an openSUSE TW installation on top of the Win10 basement, and about 10% finally use TW primarily (because their favorite game is Minecraft, which is mostly fine with a decent GPU, using extensive texture packs and a huge view distance, *even* on Linux!). Those guys love Krita and Blender as well.
I always ask myself, why is AMD not able to catch up in this segment. My humble guess is, they're *too* successful. Fun fact: almost all PCs I've talked about are equipped with their CPUs. AMD is messing up the GPU market, *because* their GPUs are so successful in special markets (crypto currency and such). Attracting the youth is *far* more harder.
The other day I did a quick survey at the local computer online store, big enough to compete successful with Amazon around these parts of the globe. Of a total of 469 Lenovo laptops, only 10 had AMD cpus, only two of them not toys, sufficiently powerful. I have not looked at graphics, not that simple to filter on, and I only looked at Lenovo - but the impression I get is that it is difficult to get an AMD hardware laptop around here. They do exist, of course. (my current computers do not use NVidia) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)