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by jgb1984 1689 days ago
I have used strictly Nvidia gpus, on debian Linux, for 20 years, using the binary drivers, and I have none of the issues you describe. It just works, very well, stable and fast. Xorg is an amazing piece of software and combined with openbox it does exactly what I need.
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kaba0 1689 days ago
> Xorg is an amazing piece of software

Based on what? Because I rather believe its maintainers..

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jgb1984 1689 days ago
Maybe you didn't read my comment? Based on having used it for over 20 years.
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kaba0 1689 days ago
That’s something about its stability. It says nothing about its fundamentally bad abstraction of modern graphics stacks, that can’t be fixed.
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josefx 1689 days ago
Users don't care about the underlying abstraction. The points raised before at least covered features that users cared about, even if they where presented without context, vsync worked fine on any NVIDIA desktop system I used, especially without compositor.
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md8z 1689 days ago
Users do care when the bad abstractions cause bugs that linger and don't get fixed, of which there are quite a lot...
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