No, I mean what I wrote, not what you wrote. Matter of fact, I specifically do not mean anything you wrote as me meaning, and there is nothing I wrote that can be construed as such without being disingenuous.
Virtually every consumer is dumb, they are the market for which people compete. Nobody competes for smart consumers. When Nvidia introduces some closed source shit like Gameworks and influencers on youtube point out the performance difference in Witcher at ultra quality people go to buy the card with better FPS. But here's the trick, the performance is the same if hairworks is disabled and amd doesn't get to optimize for a closed source project.
Your third paragraph introduces a fallacy, implying that if other companies are making morally reprehensible actions Nvidia is excused for doing the same.
Nvidia donated free development to Unreal Engine. Those nvidia developers implemented a ton of tessellation which hurt their own customers 5% but hit AMD users 25% (making up the numbers, speaking from memory). There are a ton of writings on the matter if you bother to look for them.
It is known that Epic allowed this to happen with their engine. And guess what, nobody that matters cared. Epic has a shit reputation and it changes nothing. The average gamer is not scrupulous in these matters.
Also in 2023 running Windows games on linux is super easy. Steam does it with a compatibility checkbox and it just works. Even MP games with anti-cheats. And for pirated games, lutris streamlines the whole process. I've got all sorts of Windows apps running on Artix. They even have them packed up in AUR, I installed Foobar2000 and PDF-Xchange using terminal. And for fringe apps like technical software Affinity suite I have them running through Wine via Bottles. If I really have to I can always use usb-passthrough to work on devices like my radar detector. Apart from specific workflows with things like Premier/Vegas which aren't necessary for 99.9% of users linux is a viable operating system. And if you don't autise over the matter and get a systemdick distro things are super simple.
Kozel 0 points 1.7 years ago
No, I mean what I wrote, not what you wrote. Matter of fact, I specifically do not mean anything you wrote as me meaning, and there is nothing I wrote that can be construed as such without being disingenuous.
Virtually every consumer is dumb, they are the market for which people compete. Nobody competes for smart consumers. When Nvidia introduces some closed source shit like Gameworks and influencers on youtube point out the performance difference in Witcher at ultra quality people go to buy the card with better FPS. But here's the trick, the performance is the same if hairworks is disabled and amd doesn't get to optimize for a closed source project.
Your third paragraph introduces a fallacy, implying that if other companies are making morally reprehensible actions Nvidia is excused for doing the same.
Nvidia donated free development to Unreal Engine. Those nvidia developers implemented a ton of tessellation which hurt their own customers 5% but hit AMD users 25% (making up the numbers, speaking from memory). There are a ton of writings on the matter if you bother to look for them.
It is known that Epic allowed this to happen with their engine. And guess what, nobody that matters cared. Epic has a shit reputation and it changes nothing. The average gamer is not scrupulous in these matters.
Also in 2023 running Windows games on linux is super easy. Steam does it with a compatibility checkbox and it just works. Even MP games with anti-cheats. And for pirated games, lutris streamlines the whole process. I've got all sorts of Windows apps running on Artix. They even have them packed up in AUR, I installed Foobar2000 and PDF-Xchange using terminal. And for fringe apps like technical software Affinity suite I have them running through Wine via Bottles. If I really have to I can always use usb-passthrough to work on devices like my radar detector. Apart from specific workflows with things like Premier/Vegas which aren't necessary for 99.9% of users linux is a viable operating system. And if you don't autise over the matter and get a systemdick distro things are super simple.