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lumony @lemmings.world

5d ago

Why is hardware acceleration always abysmal on Linux?

Seems like people just don't care.

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Exhaustive research was conducted on an impressive sample size of... one single device.
...and the provided details are astounding.

Because hardware manufacturers don't care about 4% market share. They just don't. They can't survive by pandering to that 4%, and it costs them time and money to make decent hardware drivers for linux.
Sad truth of it.
- Some do it's up to you to pick the ones that have open drivers.
  
  I don't disagree, but at the same time, circle back to my original statement. Even if every single *nix user were to only use open source drivers, that's still not enough. 4% of the market share isn't going to change anyone's mind about *nix support.
- With the linux server market share and recent ai boom, theyd have to be more than just blind deaf and dumb to not release linux drivers.
  Maybe this was true back in like the early 2000's?
  
  Well they're not, so I guess they are. 🤷‍♂️

Never had issues. Both with nvidia and Intel cards.
- Same on AMD as well. vaapi acceleration, after installing the appropriate packages, works nearly flawlessly on all brands of GPU I have tried.
  
  Yeah I'm amd and vaapi works for me

It's literally been working just fine for like a decade? Even for NVIDIA users that's kind of a stretch.
Maybe if you share more details about your issues and your setup we can help fix it.

Hasn't been an issue for me. Perhaps you don't have your system properly configured?

It's not.

Skill issue
- Yeah, with OP's attitude - skill issue

I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas.

Works fine for me, I've used it with both Nvidia and AMD.

is this issues with encode/decode? it was finicky to set up on my nvidia setup as well, and getting Firefox to work with it was another nightmare

NVidia has worked great for me, even RTX shading looked good.

Where are you finding hardware acceleration to be bad?

It's worked fine for me with no configuration. If you ask for help, we can troubleshoot and get it working.

what problems did you experience, on what hardware? works fine here

All this detail points to one obvious conclusion: some people are just destined to have their PII harvested on Windows. Good luck little buddy!

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