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Given all the frequent complaints, would Linux users prefer if nvidia just pulled the plug and stopped offering their driver altogether? Maybe some other long-
by starsinspace 8y ago
Given all the frequent complaints, would Linux users prefer if nvidia just pulled the plug and stopped offering their driver altogether?
Maybe some other long-term Linux users will remember how the situation was with accelerated graphics on Linux before the binary nvidia driver existed... (and personally, it never gave me trouble, but maybe that's just me.)
Here's a different idea: if Linux had stable ABIs for drivers, across kernel versions and distributions, creating a good driver would certainly be easier for third parties.
- ddtaylor 8y agoIntel is able to make it work really well. AMD went through a bad time but is now in the Kernel and getting much better. Nvidia seems to be the odd-man-out here.
- mishurov 8y agoThe OP and some geezers here don't represent the whole Linux community, I'm happy with nVidia drivers and their maintenance in the Debian packaging infrastructure. If some people are unable to turn their cognitive activity on for some simple reasoning and reading docs and wikis, there's no point in using Linux. Mac OS and Windows should be their tools of choice: those are excellent at spoon-feeding.