problematic trait of mine: i actually like the Linux NVIDIA graphics driver. it's always worked really well for me, it's fast, it's got good compatibility with games i run under wine, it handled render offload, hotplug, and hot-unplug of GPUs (less so the latter but to an extent) about as well as you can do with Xorg

@whitequark

It’s been ages since I owned an NVIDIA card, do they still ship drivers for FreeBSD and Solaris?

They used to develop their X11 drivers on FreeBSD and port to Linux to make sure they weren’t derived works of the Linux kernel, but they stopped that 10-15 years ago when their lawyers were confident that their GPL loopholes were solid.

@david_chisnall @whitequark

Old drivers still ship with FOSS shims to compile against illumos aaand the open nvidia drivers should have FreeBSD support if not its a 1k line OS abstraction C file in the driver to make.