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feature parity between Windows and Linux."
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Ya, Nvidia sure "improved" driver support for Linux alright. NOT!Then after Valve’s Steam Box announcement, AMD and Nvidia announced improved driver support for Linux gaming. AMD's new low-level Mantle technology could also encourage developers to port their triple-AAA titles to Linux to accomodate Steam Machines.
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So, for years Windows had better Nvidia support than Linux did, but once Linux got an edge in some small area Microsoft puts some heat on and Nvidia caves for reasons of "parity". With friends like that who needs enemies?While the proprietary NVIDIA Windows driver has features not found in the NVIDIA Linux driver, it seems the company will not support Linux-only hardware driver features. At least one feature has been removed from the NVIDIA Linux driver over "feature parity between Windows and Linux."
I don't use Win8 but I've heard that it isn't the game machine XP or Win7 is, which was the reason for the interest in Linux as the "next big" game OS. Now that Microsoft has been bludgeoned back into reality (letting Ballmer go probably did that. I've heard he was arrogant beyond belief) and released 8.1, I expected that they would also apply muscle to vendors to stay in line "or else". Nothing like the good old spirit of fair competition and level playing fields, right? It's time vendors grew some nads and told MS to go to a much warmer region. They are separate corporations with their own boards and stock holders, and requiring consumers to buy a 3rd party product is still against the Sherman-Clayton Anti-Trust Acts. Wait, maybe it's time for our DOJ to stop feeding guns and grenades to Mexican drug cartels and enforce our own laws.Last edited by GreyGeek; Oct 23, 2013, 09:11 AM.Leave a comment:
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