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How System76 & Red Hat Hope To Finally Improve The Linux Multi-GPU Experience (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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System76 engineer Victoria Brekenfeld and Red Hat engineer Sebastian Wick presented at the recent XDC2025 developer conference with their hopes of finally fixing the multi-GPU experience on Linux. As part of this is getting the necessary Wayland protocols in order as well as a new gpu-daemon service for proper multi-GPU handling for the Linux desktop.

There are many known issues with the multi-GPU experience on Linux that can vary based upon driver and whether using X.Org or Wayland as well as what graphics API you are using. It's far from a polished experience and there being multiple different avenues for GPU selection/usage.

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[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 12 points 2 days ago

as someone who has a multi-gpu laptop...yes, please do it. I can't even use x11 on my laptop and I'm stuck on wayland.

[–] Hagenman@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The attitude in the Phoronix comments is about what I expected. But good content!