Why is hardware acceleration always abysmal on Linux?
from lumony@lemmings.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 01 Apr 02:04
https://lemmings.world/post/23586322

Seems like people just don’t care.

#linux

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Xanza@lemm.ee on 01 Apr 02:10 next collapse

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.

lordnikon@lemmy.world on 01 Apr 02:36 next collapse

Some do it’s up to you to pick the ones that have open drivers.

Xanza@lemm.ee on 01 Apr 05:32 collapse

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.

tiddy@sh.itjust.works on 01 Apr 17:18 collapse

4% of US alone is 12 million people.

If even 25% of them decide hardware purchases based on driver support, 3 million sales isn’t ignorable.

(The number of PCs sold globally per year is similarly 300,000,000, so even then theyd lose out on 12 million potential sales YEARLY)

The market is also pretty shit post-covid, so I’m sure every hardware company is dying for a way to boost sales metrics.

Xanza@lemm.ee on 01 Apr 18:00 collapse

The market share is already there and there not doing open source drivers, so I guess you’re empirically wrong. I dunno what else to tell ya.

tiddy@sh.itjust.works on 01 Apr 18:24 collapse

Dunno what else to tell ya cause they are moving to open source, but hey googles free if you want to find out for yourself

Xanza@lemm.ee on 01 Apr 19:20 collapse

Nobody said they’re not. Jesus. You get really upset when someone points out that you’re wrong, don’t you?

Fact of the matter is, is that *nix is less than 4% of the market, and they’re not going to upset the market for that 4%. It will eventually get bigger, but until it does, there’s not a lot of hope.

This is the year of the linux desktop.

tiddy@sh.itjust.works on 01 Apr 17:02 collapse

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?

Xanza@lemm.ee on 01 Apr 17:59 collapse

Well they’re not, so I guess they are. 🤷‍♂️

tiddy@sh.itjust.works on 01 Apr 18:25 collapse

Source: 🤷‍♂️ trust me bro

Xanza@lemm.ee on 01 Apr 19:19 collapse

It’s not trust me bro at all. That’s the situation we’re currently in. So if these businesses would be “crazy” to leave all this money on the table and they currently are, what does that say to you?

I know critical thinking is hard, but try.

stewi1914@sh.itjust.works on 02 Apr 05:08 collapse

Wait, so what is this supposed situation we’re currently in?

I’m struggling to understand your version of reality.

Xanza@lemm.ee on 02 Apr 17:35 collapse

I can’t for the life of me understand how you’re having a difficulty understanding this to begin with…

You said that at 4% market share they would be idiots to not break their backs chasing that 4% in revenue but were there right now and they’re not breaking their back at all they’re hardly doing anything…

The entirety of your statements that you’ve said so far are verifiably incorrect because they are the reality that we’re living right now. I’m not the one that struggling with reality buddy, that’s you.

stewi1914@sh.itjust.works on 03 Apr 02:19 collapse

I’m a different person from who you were talking to before. I’m just trying to understand why you feel they aren’t supporting Linux.

nanook@friendica.eskimo.com on 01 Apr 03:02 next collapse

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

BCsven@lemmy.ca on 01 Apr 03:56 next collapse

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

Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me on 01 Apr 04:12 next collapse

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.

moonpiedumplings@programming.dev on 01 Apr 04:23 next collapse

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

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 01 Apr 04:37 next collapse

Never had issues. Both with nvidia and Intel cards.

heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk on 01 Apr 08:01 collapse

Same on AMD as well. vaapi acceleration, after installing the appropriate packages, works nearly flawlessly on all brands of GPU I have tried.

pebbles@sh.itjust.works on 01 Apr 16:05 collapse

Yeah I’m amd and vaapi works for me

Jumuta@sh.itjust.works on 01 Apr 06:22 next collapse

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

lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works on 01 Apr 06:24 next collapse

Exhaustive research was conducted on an impressive sample size of… one single device.

…and the provided details are astounding.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml on 01 Apr 10:44 next collapse

It’s not.

ikidd@lemmy.world on 01 Apr 14:59 next collapse

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

priapus@sh.itjust.works on 01 Apr 16:52 next collapse

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

entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 01 Apr 22:31 next collapse

Skill issue

isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca on 02 Apr 18:00 collapse

Yeah, with OP’s attitude - skill issue

ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org on 02 Apr 03:00 next collapse

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

Fizz@lemmy.nz on 02 Apr 14:01 next collapse

Where are you finding hardware acceleration to be bad?

crusa187@lemmy.ml on 02 Apr 21:15 collapse

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