On 11/25/2013 08:29 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 10:42 +0100, C wrote:
One simple answer... gaming. You cannot play Steam games (most) with the Nouveau driver. Hmm, I haven't found a game yet with issues since the improvements to Nouveau in Kernel 3.8. Can you give an example or two? Team Fortress 2 is one i can think of, which is free as in free beer, so if you have a couple of Tb of internet spare you can go try it for yourself, there are also several other AAA games coming to Linux It has been advised by them that only the priority drivers will work, I must say i haven't tried Nouveau, last time i may have considered it, it didn't support the card i have. I'd also like to point out performance in the NVIDIA driver has improved noticeably over the last year and a half.
Another.. at least up until recently, configuration. It's been historically difficult to configure multiple monitors with Nouveau. I must be spoilt with GNOME, our built in display manager has been in full control, without issues (in released versions anyway) of multiple monitors on all of my machines since GNOME 3.0
Another... performance. Playing full screen video (historically) has been awful with Nouveau. I'm going to be a stickler here though and point out your use of the words "until recently" and "historically" I totally agree with the fact that Nouveau was bad and the nvidia prop. drivers were very valuable to the distribution in the past. I'm more interested in what our users need *now* If Nouveau can satisfy 90-95% of our users owning nvidia cards, but only 10-25% of our users realise that because of the nvidia prop. drivers historical dominance, our 'point of failure' isn't that we aren't getting the prop. driver published fast enough, but that we're failing to educate our users that Nouveau is good enough for them now.
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