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Comment by mysterydip

2 years ago

Have you checked out Haiku? https://www.haiku-os.org/

Does Haiku still have unaccelerated software rendering of the UI?

Edit: yes, seems their nvidia drivers don't have 2d acceleration.

  • Yes, I believe that's correct. There's some work on vulkan and a discussion about pulling some stuff from openBSD, but either doesn't seem to be a priority for the project at the moment. I'm sure supporting modern graphics cards isn't trivial, not a task of theirs I envy.

  • There is 3d acceleration, but just AMD Radeon, not NVIDIA.

    NVIDIA does not document its hardware, thus why the open source driver situation is bad.