• Vik@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    A third player is absolutely welcome to the game but their share is for now still small on Windows.

    The Arc Alchemist dGPU bringup has shown the world just how difficult graphics driver software is. They’ve made excellent progress lately in key areas (on both Windows and Linux) but there are are still many odd gaps to fill.

    Battlemage mobile looks pretty exciting, mind you.

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      5 months ago

      I hope Intel keeps invested in this because we really need more competition. If they can push for the upper midrange too then that’d be a huge improvement already.

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        5 months ago

        This may take time but Intel have extremely deep pockets, they understand the value of presence in this market, I’m sure they can and will stick to it.

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      5 months ago

      A third player is absolutely welcome to the game

      definitely agreed as more competition drives better products for lower prices to consumers✨

      just wondering but do you happen to know if Intel’s gpus are good for all Linux distros?

      • last I heard was that they’re primarily supporting Ubuntu (I could be wrong about this)
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        5 months ago

        Like AMD, they use a kernel module and their user space drivers are in Mesa. If anything, you may have a better OOTB experience with Intel graphics on distros that have more recent packages, like Fedora.

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          5 months ago

          Do keep in mind though that some extra packages are needed to use oneapi for things like blender or Stable Diffusion. Other than that arc works great for gaming and recording using OBS out of the box for me on Fedora.

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            5 months ago

            Good to know, though same could be said for ROCm + HIP for AMD. Gets a bit weird as you generally want that for OCL support too.

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            5 months ago

            There’s no stupid questions here - there’s absolutely nothing intuitive about computer ecosystems 😅