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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.
Social Media Recommendations:

The Linux Experiment: Weekly news host for Linux/libre software related news.
Nicco Loves Linux: Developer for KDE who makes interesting videos.
David Revoy: An incredible artist with a cool webcomic, all done with GNU/Linux.
Michael Horn: Makes videos about his various experiences with Linux.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm.
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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Linux Graphics Drivers explained: AMD, NVIDIA, INTEL, Open Source and Proprietary (invidious.slipfox.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A nice explainer on the Linux kernel graphics stack that I thought would be helpful to share.

Redirect link: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=CW1CLcT83as

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still not sure I have a 100% grasp on everything but good intro video

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you have any questions don't feel afraid to ask!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think my confusion is around MESA. Is it basically that the userspace drivers are packaged together and that's MESA? And each one needs a separate driver to interact with graphics libraries like OpenGL and Vulkan?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Mesa is an open-source implementation of OpenGL & Vulkan, it's job is to act as a sort of translation layer between a graphics API such as OpenGL or Vulkan and the kernel drivers for whatever hardware you're using. Now for Nvidia, since they don't like to play ball with the rest of the world, they decided to throw Mesa out of the window completely and instead make their own proprietary implementation of OpenGL & Vulkan. Though there is Nouveau & NVK for the Nvidia side of things, they're still very work in progress and don't really offer the same performance as their proprietary counterparts, but maybe one day.

Also Nvidia, please, I need my hardware cursors on Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Okay so MESA interacts either driver type! That clarifies, thanks