NVIDIA transitions fully towards open-source GPU Linux kernel modules
It's a bit of a Linux news day today - it happens - but this one is good news we can all be happy about. After earning a bad reputation for mishandling its Linux graphics drivers for years, almost decades, NVIDIA has been turning the ship around these past two years, and today they made a major annou
@osnews the user space drivers are still proprietary though.
This is an important, but very small, improvement, until the drivers are part of mesa: Friends don't let friends buy Nvidia! 😄
@crocodisle @osnews it really is a lot nicer to just install your OS and have everything just work! Not to mention not having to worry that the Nvidia drivers make your system unbootable after an update!
And you're less likely to get punished by Nvidia for trying something they didn't think about!
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Felix 🐊