ffs rpmfusion akmod solved this way before 2023 and it still worked on old ass pre gtx hardware.

Nvidia was always crap for wayland which is what got fixed recently or if you wanted an open source module because nouveau was the only option for a long time.

proprietary nvidia drivers pretty much always worked because they use that stuff in the cloud. All they had to do was automate the install process and yet this fool is out here complaining about kernel patch on gentoo

If you dual boot, install on a separate dedicated drive of possible.

Saves a lot of headache with windows boot part, especially since you’re installing after already having Linux installed.

Usually after a big update, stupid windows overwrites EFI boot partition to windows bootloader instead of grub, which makes you crack out a USB to reinstall grub so you can access your linux system again.

Doesn’t happen that often but still a pain.

Not even Minecraft, which Microslop owns, has sold past a 4th of that amount lol.

And that’s assuming all of those users actually logged in at the same time after more than a decade of sales lol.

Not that it’s a bad thing, but did anyone ever offer something like Bazzite before?

OEMs were waiting for SteamOS because it shifts the OS support to Valve instead of DIY, but I wonder if anyone tried before SteamOS was ready.

Nah it’s not, they just changed a bunch of stuff to make it work out of box with FEX which I’m pretty sure current waydroid can’t do, so it should work fine out of box on x86.

I also forgot FEX doesn’t work in reverse though. It only does x86 binary to ARM hardware like Box64, so we might end up using libhoudini anyway.

I think its really funny that the RTX brand name still reflects Nvidia’s previous endeavor to pump money.

Remember they made a big deal about real time ray tracing because they already knew that GTX series had hit a powerful standard that would cause GPUs to become cheaper in the long run. The only “improvements” left for gaming was raw performance and 4k content, which Moore’s law would solve in only a handful of years.

So they artificially created a new graphics standard requiring new hardware that no one actually needed to ensure that future generations of GPUs would remain highly profitable.

Which is why the 30 series had such a massive leap over the 20 series for ray trace performance. They wanted everyone to buy the next product, so they simply added more ray tracing cores that really should have been in the 20 series.

But then the big AI moneymaker hit and they focused all their attention to the tensor cores instead, and now the RTX name and ray tracing cores are an artifact of the past.

I think if valve had gone the route of swappable SoCs, it could have done better since you could choose to upgrade it in the future for relatively cheap and not get locked in to the platform. They didn’t because they wanted to release a ubiquitous product that devs could target as a hardware spec like the steam deck.

1k for essentially gaming laptop performance is gonna be a tough ask in this tire fire market. The biggest savior by far has been users boosting their old platforms to the max because everything current gen is hella expensive.

Plus it will be undercut by PS5 which is the biggest contender. Valve’s major edge is the software, but a $400-$500 premium is not worthwhile for many.

I also think they underestimated 4k users. There’s not that many 4k users in the PC space because its expensive, but a lot of people have 4k TVs because the display tech at that scale is pretty cheap. People will want 4k output if they’re gonna use this as intended with a larger screen.

They are trialing it with Rocket League which they updated to use EAC without dropping linux support.

I just hope the Linux growth doesn’t stagnate due to the insane PC market right now and the potentially DoA steam machine, otherwise alot of this development could go to waste.

Fingers crossed they aren’t trying to develop a linux kernel module anticheat because I will never load that crap on anyone’s machine.

Even right now, the last standing proprietary blob in my way is Nvidia, which they finally open sourced their kernel driver so if the userspace blob bothers you, you can switch to the upcoming Nova driver from RedHat.

The kernel needs to stay clean. They can do whatever they’d like in userspace.

I got my 32gb DDR4 3600 for $60 2 years ago and four 2Tb NVME SSDs for $115 a pop last year.

The ram is now $335 and the NVMEs aren’t even in production anymore after they ran out of stock during the end of 2025 buyout. The closest equivalent is going from $400-$500 each these dsys.

MS was anything but lol, they had a swarm of lawsuit dramas over by then. Only Apple glazed MS because they quite literally saved them from bankruptcy which they only did as insurance against a proper antitrust case.

Google was newer but they also weren’t a private company, they were riding silicon valley money to the moon.

Regardless, Steam is a monopoly but their immediate competitors are the only ones chucking anti competitve measures around like crappy DRM and price lockins.

There was a funnier one with GOG enjoying itself in the corner and the complaining party being Epic lol

I’m pretty sure it’s akmod-nvidia-470xx, would have to try it to see if it works.

750ti actually fell under Maxwell, and RPMFusion just split it off into akmod-nvidia-580xx for GTX 750/800/900/10 cards.

I think I faintly remember running a 600 card on linux back in the day, so no reason it shouldn’t work.

750 specifically was special because it was Maxwell architecture that Nvidia used on an “old” GPU brand line.

Hence the CM 5.0 instead of 3.0.

Mine was on the 580 something driver with CUDA 13.2 when I removed it from my server a couple of weeks ago.

Not to act smug but this is one area where I see akmod seem to work better than dkms which is weird considering they should both produce the same result.

This is funny because I recently retired my 750ti which I had been using for server work and it ran great with the latest Nvidia driver (although I heard they’re gonna drop support soon and move the driver into a legacy package on rpmfusion).

The poor thing couldn’t even do H.265, had 2 Gb of VRAM, and needed specially compiled libraries for pytorch/tensorflow stuff because CM 5.0 was over 10 years ago, but it chugged along just fine.

I’m personally still on a 1660ti because despite OpenCL’s best efforts, CUDA has everyone by the balls, but now that I have a beefier server setup, I’ll probably go with AMD on my next build.

Assuming I’ll actually want to make a new build with these insane prices lol.

I forget but wasn’t anthropic mostly made up of former OpenAI engineers after Altman went off the deep end?

Not that it makes them any better, but I’m pretty sure GPT-3 was the nexus point in the current mess we have now, which means they hopped off right after it was internally finished and made their own company.

2018 was a full 2 years before that point, and back then AI was still primarily stuff like OpenCV, Pytorch projects, etc. that were things you could legitimately run on one or two workstation GPUs or even a cheap tensor core addon if you didn’t want to run on CPU.

No that’s was the second lawsuit, Sony v Bleem!, which was a different emulator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!

Yes it is