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@uis I know about nouveau which is community developed. This is what I meant with the performance. It's not near on the same level as the proprietary. For gaming, this is not an option. But I thank you for the suggestions you made.
The best benchmarks I found is for the 20xx series, but look at the results to understand how big the difference is: https://www.phoronix.com/review/opensource-turing-3d/2
Dota 2:
- Noveau gets 7 fps
- Proprietary gets over 100 fps
That's the level of difference we speak about.
@uis GTX 1070. The new open source driver from Nvidia does not support the 10x series, if your question should lead to that. But does not matter, because yesterday all PC parts of my new build has arrived and I will set it up this weekend. AMD+AMD now. Finally done with these Nvidia frustration.
@NaoPb Firefox starts in 2 seconds total for me on my 10 years old CPU, even with many plugins installed. While there are constantly 6 or more tabs open, most are not loaded in when starting Firefox, unless I click the tab itself. And opening a new private window is almost instant. I even use Firefox for reading PDFs, instead installing a dedicated application, because it is fast loading and does the job. All in all, it's probably not far away from Chrome in starting up Firefox. And it probably isn't that important, because the browser is open all the time for me.
As for the memory usage, I always thought Firefox is being bad here. Can't imagine Chrome being worse. Are people happy with that?
@uis I didn't blame anyone particularly. I am just upset about the current situation as a Nvidia user. And it's a warning to anyone who thinks about getting a Nvidia card on Linux.
Not sure why Mesa. It does not have the proprietary driver in it, does it?
@yoz Most people aren't idiots, they are uninformed. But they become an idiot ones you inform them... So most people are potential idiots. :D
@Gormadt They say Firefox is slow. Because in the past it used to, especially with the old engine and when Chrome was new, that's true. But nowadays it does not matter anymore and the speed differences are negligible. If that is the only reason to not use Firefox, then people should reevaluate their decision.
Then there is the argument that people do not like Mozilla. But they like Google more? Even if you use a Chromium based browser by a different company, you give more power to Google this way, as the engine becomes a bigger part of the web. Am I crazy for thinking that?
I use Firefox since version 1 as my default. Occasionally I switched to a different browser, but always came back to good ol' Firefox.
Nobody cares what Gamestop boss says, lol.