Good news I guess, but at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, didn't Intel previously lay off a bunch of their linux and driver devs just last year in July/August?
A chicken running with its head cut off = intel. Wtf are they doing? It has been very obvious that Linux gaming is taking off, and the GPU/gaming market has a huge gap that they can fill, but they just walked the other way. What?
It’s not entirely altruistic. They need good Linux support as for now Linux of Unix are the OS for datacentres. If they want a piece of the AI cake they need to have their GPUs work good and stable under Linux with a good support structure. Gaming is just a good test bench, as it’s highly processing demanding and there are a lot of paying test subjects
This should make transitions to Linux a lot easier, people were held in captivity by Microslop for so long just by being a little bit more convenient and because Linux didn't have billions of dollars to cram itself like a virus into every device it can and people are finally starting to realise that, let's just hope the distro maintainers won't get greedy and start monetising the transition...
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Veraxis@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 173d
Good news I guess, but at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, didn't Intel previously lay off a bunch of their linux and driver devs just last year in July/August?
Sources:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SLM-Driver-Orphaned
https://www.techradar.com/pro/linux-at-risk-recent-intel-layoffs-are-putting-key-projects-at-risk-experts-warn?pubDate=20250814
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/major-intel-linux-driver-projects-are-dying-due-to-intel-layoffs-and-corporate-restructuring-compatibility-and-reliability-issues-could-increase-over-time
51dusty@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 173d
I was coming here to say the SAME THING!
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 173d
Yeah right?? This might just be a small correction
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 173d
A chicken running with its head cut off = intel. Wtf are they doing? It has been very obvious that Linux gaming is taking off, and the GPU/gaming market has a huge gap that they can fill, but they just walked the other way. What?
istdaslol@feddit.org · 5 pts · 173d
It’s not entirely altruistic. They need good Linux support as for now Linux of Unix are the OS for datacentres. If they want a piece of the AI cake they need to have their GPUs work good and stable under Linux with a good support structure. Gaming is just a good test bench, as it’s highly processing demanding and there are a lot of paying test subjects
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 4 pts · 173d
This should make transitions to Linux a lot easier, people were held in captivity by Microslop for so long just by being a little bit more convenient and because Linux didn't have billions of dollars to cram itself like a virus into every device it can and people are finally starting to realise that, let's just hope the distro maintainers won't get greedy and start monetising the transition...