Wayland on Kubuntu 22.04

Jim azanorak at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 15:47:40 MST 2024


Thanks

On 4/3/24 12:48, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Take a look at the 5500xt. Its in the same price category, but newer 
> and should be supported for quite some time. also should have better 
> feature support.
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 1:53 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss 
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>     The website I checked out to compare the cards showed the age of
>     the cards.  The  710 was first sold in 2015 and 2017 for the 580. 
>     I can't see myself spending several hundred for the latest and
>     greatest.
>
>     On 4/2/24 09:53, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>     the 710 is almost a decade old even though it is being sold. the
>>     580 is still several core architectures behind.
>>
>>
>>     On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 8:23 AM Jim via PLUG-discuss
>>     <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>         I looked up the two cards you mentioned and they perform
>>         pretty much the same, but they appear to blow the GT710 out
>>         of the water if this is to be believed. I think I'll give up
>>         on getting nvenc to work on the gt 710.  I imagine the rx580
>>         will do much better.
>>
>>         https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GeForce-GT-710-vs-AMD-RX-580/m77649vs3923
>>
>>         On 3/28/24 14:05, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>         The closest modern card are going to be the RX 580's or 5500xt
>>>
>>>         Thise are in the 50-100 price range that the 710 is.
>>>
>>>         On Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 4:58 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss
>>>         <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>             The card I have now is a GeForce GT 710. What Radeon
>>>             card  would be equivalent to that?  I don't want to buy
>>>             something that turns out to be slower.
>>>
>>>             On 3/26/24 10:04, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>>             Also amd flagship cards are getting tremendous
>>>>             performance gains under vulkan.
>>>>
>>>>             On Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 8:52 AM Steve Litt via
>>>>             PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                 Jim via PLUG-discuss said on Sun, 24 Mar 2024
>>>>                 12:58:34 -0700
>>>>
>>>>                 >I have an Nvidia card. The computer has an Intel
>>>>                 gpu.  I would think
>>>>                 >that Nvidia support should come along sooner or
>>>>                 later.
>>>>
>>>>                 I doubt it. They won't reveal the interface without
>>>>                 an NDA that Free
>>>>                 Software developers can't sign.
>>>>
>>>>                 >There are a lot
>>>>                 >of Nvidia users out there.
>>>>
>>>>                 Nvidia doesn't care. They're in the top 6 worldwide
>>>>                 richest
>>>>                 corporations because of their leadership in AI
>>>>                 chips, so they don't
>>>>                 care about a few Linux people stuck with Nvidia
>>>>                 hardware.
>>>>
>>>>                 If you can, I'd advise you to do what I did and
>>>>                 switch from Nvidia to
>>>>                 Radeon the minute your machine exhibits the
>>>>                 slightest flakiness or
>>>>                 video artifacts.
>>>>
>>>>                 SteveT
>>>>
>>>>                 Steve Litt
>>>>
>>>>                 Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the
>>>>                 21st Century
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>>     Stephen
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