AMD and Nvidia will support Linux

[mgsstar]

 

Support from most popular video card manufacturers for the Linux operating system was often weak and lousy. However, it seems that this will change after Valve announced a new operating system SteamOS based on Steam, the popular digital distribution platform for games.

Companies AMD and Nvidia have said they will release the official drivers for the Linux operating system. AMD has long been active in the open source community, but their drivers for Linux were mostly behind the capabilities and quality as compared to those for Windows. Recent upgrade of AMD drivers for Linux has brought support for dynamic energy management, and initial support for a new generation of GPUs codenamed Sea Islands.

On the other hand, Nvidia is in a strained relationship with the open source community, and the creator Linus Torvalds has even publicly stated their dissatisfaction with their products. Drivers for Nvidia graphics cards are still issued, but closed source is not in the spirit of the Linux community, but that will change because Nvidia has decided to issue an open source drivers for your graphics card and in that way support growing community of players on Linux.

Source:http://decryptedtech.com/news/amd-and-nvidia-will-support-linux

 

Glad that Nvidia and AMD are creating official drivers for Linux as Steam is on Linux and they are helping Steam and SteamOS to work better/more optimized in games.

[Maskot]

(Gabe Newell, I love you)

[whatthe_fuzz]

yep. my weekend project.

 

wipe my 40GB Raptor and install Ubuntu

[NinjaStyle013]

Yay! AMD is playing nice! Means the steam box wont turn into a lopsided hardware arrangement.

[JAKEBAB]

microsoft look out u better start paying attention to the pc side of gaming or your going to lose us 2 very big hardware companies now officially supporting a direct competitor plus steam a huge software company this is huge i wonder if microsoft is stressing.

[RuecanOnRails]

I expected this to happen, and I couldn't be happier.

 

Hopefully this will be the death to DirectX and its horrible platform which is forced upon devs without giving access to the actual hardware.

 

One less reason to use windows. One step closer to using only linux.

[TopWargamer]

Awesome news to hear indeed! 

[DefinitelyNotAPedophile]

This is exiting. Now we might have a os and drivers optimized for gaming

[EChondo]

microsoft look out u better start paying attention to the pc side of gaming or your going to lose us 2 very big hardware companies now officially supporting a direct competitor plus steam a huge software company this is huge i wonder if microsoft is stressing.

We are already far ahead of Microsoft to even care about what they will be doing 1, 5, or even 10 years down the road.

 

Microsoft lost us a LONG time ago.

[JAKEBAB]

We are already far ahead of Microsoft to even care about what they will be doing 1, 5, or even 10 years down the road.

 

Microsoft lost us a LONG time ago.

well maybe with u but i dont think thats the case with everyone i sure as hell will not being moving to linux until majority of exe's work on linux like look at mac they still dont have everything windows has theres alternatives but not for everything and little programs like modding programs for games and stuff there only exe's i want an os that i can do everything and use everything on which is windows atm and that might change but i highly doubt it.

[EChondo]

well maybe with u but i dont think thats the case with everyone i sure as hell will not being moving to linux until majority of exe's work on linux like look at mac they still dont have everything windows has theres alternatives but not for everything and little programs like modding programs for games and stuff there only exe's i want an os that i can do everything and use everything on which is windows atm and that might change but i highly doubt it.

And I agree wholeheartedly with you, but we are the small fry in the big pan.

 

If you look at the majority of Internet users, barely none of them are power users like we are. All of them could easily switch to Linux, but nearly none of them don't even know what Linux is!

 

I personally won't be switching to Linux unless I can capture my gameplay and be able to render it and cut it with video editing programs, but I'll definitely be making my own dedicated gaming machine or just buy a Steam machine depending on the pricing and just use that for LAN's or family gatherings. Hell or even use it in my family room for streaming and emulators.

[rashdanml]

I personally won't be switching to Linux unless I can capture my gameplay and be able to render it and cut it with video editing programs,

Ffmpeg records and streams iirc. OBS is open source. There's also cinelerra for video editing and compositing.

[James.]

I don't really get why some people are getting excited about this. AMD and Nvidia have had their own proprietary drivers on linux for a long time now, the announcement is basically just stating that they will continue what they were doing before hand.

[MzCatieB]

NOW I HAVE USE FOR A FEDORA MACHINE  

[Humbug]

I don't really get why some people are getting excited about this. AMD and Nvidia have had their own proprietary drivers on linux for a long time now, the announcement is basically just stating that they will continue what they were doing before hand.

It's obvious that people are hoping that they will take a more active interest in improving the drivers, optimizations and bug-squashing in a timely manner, like they do for Windows...

[James.]

It's obvious that people are hoping that they will take a more active interest in improving the drivers, optimizations and bug-squashing in a timely manner, like they do for Windows...

 

I guess, and I know AMD's drivers need it (l4d2 runs half as well for me in Manjaro, as it does in windows 7). It was just that the sense I was getting from some of the posts was that people were thinking, and getting excited, that AMD and Nvidia were just now getting around to making a driver for linux, which wasn't true.

[BernardoSLR]

Can't live on promises... Hope they deliver!

[unidentical]

Alright, let's get some game devs on board so I can uninstall Windows and be done with it.

 

I'm lookin at you, Chris Roberts.

[wpirobotbuilder]

NOW I HAVE USE FOR A FEDORA MACHINE

I don't know if they'll immediately support Fedora, it changes so often (though being on the bleeding edge of what it can do is exciting )

[Kuzma]

NOW I HAVE USE FOR A FEDORA MACHINE

so little developer tools for Linux from the major game engines out there sadly

[Fetzie]

Official Linux drivers and MANTLE, nerds (used as a term of endearment) everywhere rejoice

 

(I may, one day, be joining them)

[Beskamir]

This is great news but it saddens me that such incentive was needed. Are regular Linux users really that not valuable to AMD and NVIDIA?

[LonliestofAll]

so little developer tools for Linux from the major game engines out there sadly

sadly true, and linux won't go mainstream until it is as user friendly as Windows

[Kuzma]

sadly true, and linux won't go mainstream until it is as user friendly as Windows

For non-power users i personally think he Ubuntu App Store is more user friendly than googling for applications.

If you don't try to do anything more than browse the web , use office program's and play flash games a Linux machine is arguably the best thing ever. It can be cheap as hell.

[LonliestofAll]

For non-power users i personally think he Ubuntu App Store is more user friendly than googling for applications.

If you don't try to do anything more than browse the web , use office program's and play flash games a Linux machine is arguably the best thing ever. It can be cheap as hell.

Yep, and me being a power user I can't use it. I love Linux, but I can't because I'm a power user.