• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
    141·
    7 days ago

    You can download the Nvidia driver directly from their website

    People who care about privacy wouldn’t use the Nvidia app. (And wouldn’t be on Windows)

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    The funniest thing about proprietary nvidia drivers on linux is that they’re still easier to install than using the GeForce app lmao.

    dnf install akmod-nvidia

    No sign in to a fat game launcher ad ridden app to upgrade your GPU driver

  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    I don’t use that shitty application. Just use Nvidia Inspector and Nvidia Control Panel. That application is data collection spyware.

        • kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          Just switch to CachyOS and so far I’ve noticed improved performance if anything (on a 3080 10gb). The latency difference between it and Windows is just unreal.

        • luciferofastora@feddit.org
          1·
          6 days ago

          Running a 3060, no issues I can tell.

          YMMV obviously: There was some driver fuckery I had to sort out because I’m stupid (curious and clueless is a dangerous mix), and I might not be running the most demanding games or programs (Jedi: Survivor might be one of the heavier ones? I have no idea)

          I also might have lower standards: I’m playing 1080p 60fps and generally don’t notice FPS issues unless it drops below ~45, because I grew up using to an old-as-fuck laptop to play Skyrim at 20fps (unless there were too many spells flying around and it dropped to 5-10).

          Still, the consensus seems to be that AMD is better for Linux, and I’m coming around too.

      • KingPorkChop@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        6 days ago

        If there are Linux applications that aren’t complete janky shit, I’ll switch.

        I need a multitrack DAW recorder that understands older and newer audio interfaces and a good multi-camera video editor.

        • nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          6 days ago

          I use bitwig and davinci and they work great. not sure what you mean by “applications that aren’t complete janky shit.” there are a ton of applications available on linux, both paid and free, and their quality varies as much as anywhere else.

  • MetalMachine@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    So it sounds like the wall was written to police more than just porn sites? Or is this companies doing this to harvest your data?

    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 days ago

      It’s to prevent autonomous agency. It’s to prevent people from having privacy and individuality end of discussion. The last system like this was under the gestapo and secret police under Hitlers regime.

  • bigbabybilly@lemmy.world
    59·
    7 days ago

    Zoomers can’t be bothered to spell Nvidia correctly. I wouldn’t let ‘em install my drivers either 🥲

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
      1221·
      8 days ago

      Reminder that they already responded

      The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible

      • Armand1@lemmy.world
        94·
        8 days ago

        Doesn’t stop us from continuing to push. Since they responded we got 300 000 more signatures.

        • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
          4315·
          8 days ago

          Wouldn’t it be sick if y’all just responded on voting day?

          Here’s the pitch: Do you want to prevent horrible nonsense shit from happening? Do you like money? Are you okay with people in general? Fucking vote.

            • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
              196·
              8 days ago

              I do not realize that, I’m not from there nor do I pay attention to their politics. This was more so a call to everyone everywhere to show up at whatever booth it may be and prevent shitty policies from being considered, let alone passed.

              That said, I do appreciate the info, and moreso appreciate that you archived it and linked a paywall free version. That was thoughtful.

              • Armand1@lemmy.world
                5·
                8 days ago

                Yeah unfortunately one vote every 4 or 5 years is not enough granularity to weigh in on specific issues. Also, politicians lie about what they will do all the time.

                Showing that a large amount of people are against an action, whether by petition or protest, is one of the tools we do have.

                This particular piece of legislation has been in the works for two administrations of two different parties. We’re kind of sick of both of them so I think many people will likely vote for a 3rd party the next time around. Possibly the more progressive splinter group of our 'left" party.

                • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zip
                  3·
                  8 days ago

                  I hope you’re right. But in my experience, every country ends up voting for 1 of the 2 largest parties because “that other party will not get even 5%” and the whole population ends up disregarding them. And this is by design.

                  Honestly, I pray that you’re right and the UK people actually tells the main parties to fuck right off.

            • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
              514·
              8 days ago

              The game has been rigged.
              Voting exists to stop you changing things.
              It makes you believed you solved the problem
              when you’ve actually accomplished nothing yet

              The voting is game is lost before it began
              with psychometric micro demographic targetting
              they can convert money into votes with simple manipulation
              it’s just a matter of which money interest push more
              on their preferred option

              but neither of the two choices is on your side

              None of the choices in democracy are working for you

                • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
                  21·
                  8 days ago

                  Yes there are many choices, very similar degrees of ultimately the same thing. Same thing here in Canada.

                  Often it’s the business elite party and the “business elite but pretending to care about the people’s interest party” and that second one is also split so the straight up business elite party has a chance to win. Followed by series of do-nothing statistically insignificant, flavour-text parties just for the impression of diversity. It’s all a little circus to give you the idea the population is in control while being completely out of the equation. It only really serves to dissipate their frustration and make them believe they’ve already done everything they could so we don’t get guillotines in the streets.

                  Make no mistake Fukuyama is right, this IS the end of history, there will not be any democratically elected changes unless the powerful decide change is in their interest and will maintain or increase their power.

                  Nothing will change until the power is physically taken away from them and history restarts.

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          15·
          8 days ago

          Point is, this law was not created in service of the public. It’s just another surveillance measure. Much like Chat Control, which they’ve pushed over and over again, despite getting pushback from literally everyone around the world every time. You could have everyone in the EU sign that petition and it wouldn’t matter because it’s not for you.

      • Guilvareux@feddit.uk
        20·
        8 days ago

        A huge petition that undermines the government’s democratic mandate is never a bad thing, even if they responded.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      8 days ago

      You don’t need Linux, you just need to get the driver from Nvidia’s website.

      If they can’t figure this out, they really don’t belong on Linux.

    • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
      914·
      7 days ago

      You’d have the same issue with this on Linux, no? It isn’t OS-specific.

      EDIT: I meant in general. Software on Linux is also subject to the UKs temper tantrum laws, same as on Windows. The Nvidia driver is just an example, you can also just download the driver on Windows without needing their companion app.

      • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        24·
        8 days ago

        The official proprietary Nvidia drivers are just a regular Linux package I’m 99% sure, I have it installed on my laptop and it doesn’t involve a gui app at all.

          • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            8 days ago

            Not really it is full featured under X under Wayland some of the features are replaced by your desktops features exclusively

        • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          135·
          8 days ago

          You don’t want to, though. They’re horrible. There’s an insane amount of effort that would be required to reverse-engineer drivers since Nvidia is at best negligent. AMD and Intel are much better about OSS.

          • codenul@lemmy.ml
            11·
            8 days ago

            been plug and play for me using Nvidia + Linux for years now. Just upgraded to a 5070ti, literally was take out old, put in the new.

            • batmaniam@lemmy.world
              4·
              8 days ago

              I’m not fully a penguin, but getting there. Saw the memes, experienced it first hand in one case and was plug and play in another. It’s luck of the draw.

              • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
                3·
                8 days ago

                There’s a learning curve, sure.

                There was one for Windows too, but most people don’t remember the hundreds of hours of learning that they’ve done to become competent users of Windows.

                Just jump in, don’t dual boot. Having no option of giving up and booting Windows makes you motivated to learn how to use Linux.

                There’s a community of people who will help (while also sometimes being insufferable assholes) and the skills you learn will be more durable. You’re not going to see Linux 11 come along and mandate that you buy a new computer or anything.

                • batmaniam@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  6 days ago

                  Oh I’ve loved it so far. And you’re right on the “what you learn is more useful”. Like I’d done a fair amount of hobby/work prototype stuff on rasbian, and eventually went “man, it’d be great if this but more horsepower” and wound up Debian.

                  Anyway, my point is despite doing a fair amount of coding, and circuit level electronics including troubleshooting comms and all the fun things like race conditions that go into that, I had zero idea how a computer was actually arranged. Troubleshooting Debian helped me with that and is infinitely transferable as opposed to being a tip and trick with windows.

                  But my original comment was just about Nvidia cards. I’ve had some I just slot in and they work, and some I have to spend an afternoon troubleshooting. Still reinforces your point though, troubleshooting it the first time was how I learned how things actually get displayed.

            • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
              72·
              8 days ago

              That is no longer the case. The Nvidia drivers for Linux are pretty decent, these days. They’re still closed source, so if that’s a deal breaker for you, you’ll need to buy an AMD GPU.

              • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                52·
                8 days ago

                I’m not sure if the closed-source drivers have social media garbage on them at the moment, but I’m very sure that I don’t trust Nvidia not to add it.

              • OrganicMustard@lemmy.world
                3·
                8 days ago

                The problem is not that they are bad, is that if someone makes a project that depends on the specific drivers then it will work much worse if the drivers are closed source. Wayland was unusable with nvidia drivers until recently.

          • noodlejetski (he/him)@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            NVK is very slowly getting there, from what I’ve read. if I remember correctly, it’s still gives horrible performance (about 50%-ish of the closed source ones, I think?), but it’s still miles better than “you’re really better off using your integrated GPU” that noveau offered for ages.

          • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            they are at a point where it’s not even really limited by reverse engineering, but that only the nvidia-signed drivers can increase the gpu’s frequencies to anything near performant.

      • Zetta@mander.xyz
        11·
        8 days ago

        The key thing is Linux is free and open source, free as In eat shit and fucking die government fucking pigs.

      • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        8 days ago

        No you would not because you don’t need to go to the website to download software to use Nvidia on Linux. Also the Nvidia driver on Linux is literally just a driver and settings package it has no online features

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
        71·
        8 days ago

        I’m not aware that the Nvidia drivers for Linux require an app registration. If that were the case, I’d definitely have heard about the uproar.

  • Ilandar@lemmy.today
    652·
    8 days ago

    The internet’s inability to fact check anything before re-sharing it? Yes, I agree.