You’re absolutely right, Nvidia used to be a nightmare on Linux. Not just unstable bad, often times just unuseably bad for me.
Even the closed drivers are a lot better nowadays though, but I think older Nvidia support is still not great.
I’ve also been using Linux for over a decade at this point, but only switched to it as my main gaming machine fairly recently. I always had issues with stupid Nvidia bullshit before, until finally I found Bazzite which was working great even in the period when Nvidia drivers were still a bit unstable, especially on wayland. Honestly I’m not even sure why I still got an Nvidia gpu last time.
I’m not sure how it could really qualify for an antitrust lawsuit
This would sound to me like they’d somehow unlock more performance with their own gpu than is available for other brands, so they’re giving their own hardware an unfair advantage.
But thinking about it a bit more now, I realise that could probably be prevented by trademarking or patenting the technology they use to do that or something.
You’re absolutely right, Nvidia used to be a nightmare on Linux. Not just unstable bad, often times just unuseably bad for me. Even the closed drivers are a lot better nowadays though, but I think older Nvidia support is still not great.
I’ve also been using Linux for over a decade at this point, but only switched to it as my main gaming machine fairly recently. I always had issues with stupid Nvidia bullshit before, until finally I found Bazzite which was working great even in the period when Nvidia drivers were still a bit unstable, especially on wayland. Honestly I’m not even sure why I still got an Nvidia gpu last time.
This would sound to me like they’d somehow unlock more performance with their own gpu than is available for other brands, so they’re giving their own hardware an unfair advantage.
But thinking about it a bit more now, I realise that could probably be prevented by trademarking or patenting the technology they use to do that or something.
Hah, I too am using Bazzite, at least on a Steam Deck.
And yeah, if… having a propietary hardware tech with proprietary software that utilized it was somehow a legal argument for ‘you are a monopoly’…
Then Nvidia would have a very obvious monopoly on the real time ray tracing tech, and should thus be broken up.
Then MSFT should be broken up for owning DirectX, and not open sourcing it. Proton and Vulkan wouldn’t need to exist.