As an aside knowing most companies working in embedded technologies usually work in, or have strong aspects in Linux. Why then are Linux drivers so difficult to come by? Lack of customers seems unlikely since they mostly have everything ready, right? Is it because of the openness of Linux where everything can be traced? Or is there something more anticompetitive going on w.r.t. Windows?
Comment on Intel Arc B580 'Battlemage' GPU announced - 1440p Ultra gaming for $249
Katzenmann@feddit.org 1 month ago
Do these cards have good open-source Linux drivers?
kippinitreal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Most of the demand is for Windows. So if your choice is to spend resources (money) where demand is, or hope that you can possibly create demand where there isn’t any currently.
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Been a while but I played around with the a770 in Arch for a few months. It didn’t play nice with proton and even native games were hit and miss. Better support from Intel than nvidia gives, but it’s a new platform and Linux development was definitely taking a back seat to the windows drivers which were also a buggy mess.
And basically nobody had the cards so if something didn’t work your options were to give up or become a computer graphics programming wizard and fix it all yourself from scratch.
To answer the question: not really, no. The drivers themselves may have been fine, but who knows how any given software will handle a brand new GPU architecture.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
The comments I’ve read from current-generation Arc owners have given the impression that their Linux drivers are catching up to AMD. Here’s the latest info:
www.phoronix.com/…/intel-arc-b580-battlemage