On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 at 09:08 Pascal Obry <[email protected]> wrote: > Kelvie, > > I'm still not sure why I respond... >
That's okay, we can have a friendly discussion on April fools day! > > > The original subject was about being able to *not* use the > > proprietary drivers for AMD, but just a few libraries extracted from > > the package. > > You're kidding right, a few libraries from the proprietary AMDGPU-PRO > driver, why are you saying this is not the proprietary driver???? > > Ah, I think the difference in this thread comes from me (and others) calling only the kernel module part the "driver", whereas the driver does include both kernel and userspace parts. I just wanted to point out that it is convenient being able to use an upstream kernel module, and believe me, I've been using dkms nvidia modules for almost a decade, with its share of problems (namely can't upgrade kernels easily) But yes, if the past is to show, if you don't care about upgrading to newer kernels, or possibly crappy support for older cards, and cost, then NVIDIA is a better choice; but I just wanted to point out that if you're buying a new card, the low end AMD RX-4 series are a _really_ good value. -- -- Kelvie Wong ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
