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Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

After many years of thinking about it i finally gave Linux a try on my main PC and was met with the unfortunate realization that HDR support was non existent for NVIDIA cards and had to switch back to Windows.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HDR will probably be supported in a year or two, so you might want to give it a try again at some point. There's ongoing work to enable HDR.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thing is there will always be these sorts of features that are initially only supported on Windows as long as Linux is not a priority platform. So there will always be excuses to not switch :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, and Desktop Linux won't ever be as big as Windows, so long as almost all pc's sold ship with Windows or macOS.

But I feel like the excuses get less and less. Besides mixed DPI, HDR and VR I don't think there's much missing. Obviously there'll always be apps that only run on Windows or Linux, but that's fine.

But you're right. In a few years there'll be a new feature not (yet) supported on Linux. Let's see how long it takes for FSR3 to work on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More likely only not for NVIDIA

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

could you explain what you mean by this thanks :)

[–] secret301 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nvidia has been notoriously bad for Linux on the desktop. Linus Tolvalds has commented about their lack of support here and it has gotten better since then but not by much. Nvidia doesn't like to play nice they only do things their way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nah. Nvidia is still Nvidia, but 2 years ago or so they finally gave up and started supporting GBM and even opened part of their driver stack.

Some things, like hardware encoder are even easier to set up than AMD's counterpart. (Mainly because Nvidia proprietary driver being supported better than AMD's proprietary driver)