They are also adding an wayland server.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsy...
As if describing things in terms of northern hemisphere temperate seasons wasn’t bad enough (and still worse commonly showing how little you care about any place other than the USA and maybe Canada by using the name “fall”), now we have this: “holiday 2020”. I don’t know when this is talking about. I’d have guessed northern hemisphere summer school break first, but I guess that’s just about finished now, so it can’t be that. Christmas time would have been my next guess, but surely you’d describe that as “by the end of 2020”? And then other possibilities occurred to me—Halloween? Thanksgiving? I have no idea at all what Americans would call “holiday” as a time of year.
They're referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_and_holiday_season
> I’d have guessed northern hemisphere summer school break first, but I guess that’s just about finished now
Summer break more or less just started for most students here. The fall term will start around August.
Though in principle, there's nothing preventing them from using GBM instead of EGLStreams, and there are some good practical reasons such as having compatibility with the broad base of existing accelerated Wayland windowing libraries and applications.
The people working on the NVIDIA open source driver have no official support and were fighting with signed firmware blobs last I heard. I wish them luck, but even on older cards it is more likely to crash your system than render anything.
My understanding is that even 2015 is too new for nouveau to run with high performance due to something called reclocking, where the card starts up at a minimal clock rate and then it's up to the drivers to reconfigure it for running at the advertised clock.