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AFAIK a lot of Hollywood visual effects are done on Linux + Nvidia so they probably support that market.

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Not really familiar with it, but hopefully they can get unstuck from Nvidia, especially on Linux. Only very recently things started improving it seems and not even with Nvidia's effort but outside community working on nova + nvk.

p_l1y ago

nvidia linux drivers efforts were pretty much always driven by that market, it's not getting unstuck because it's supported well.

Hell, nvidia drivers might be often complained about, but for years I would take nvidia because the crappiness was manageable and close to nothing if you were in the target market (desktop workstations running X11 on only nvidia GPUs? The only issue was if you were running super latest kernel).

shmerl1y ago

Half baked support that fixes major issues at the rate of once per decade can hardly be called well. I would stay away from such garbage when possible.

Now that tools like Blender and the like are increasingly picking up Vulkan support, there is no reason for the above to use Nvidia anymore.

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shmerl1y ago

p_l1y ago

nvidia linux drivers efforts were pretty much always driven by that market, it's not getting unstuck because it's supported well.

shmerl1y ago

Half baked support that fixes major issues at the rate of once per decade can hardly be called well. I would stay away from such garbage when possible.

Now that tools like Blender and the like are increasingly picking up Vulkan support, there is no reason for the above to use Nvidia anymore.

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