NVIDIA GPUs on Linux are used by GPGPU data center customers, rendering data center customers, weird cryptocurrency miners, and then a tiny number of everyone e

NVIDIA GPUs on Linux are used by GPGPU data center customers, rendering data center customers, weird cryptocurrency miners, and then a tiny number of everyone else. The everyone else is predominantly certified RedHat / CentOS or Ubuntu animation and engineering Linux applications users. Then finally people who install Linux on their NVIDIA equipped laptops and desktops. The last group is so vanishingly small. They’re neither a meaningful number of users nor a meaning number of payers. Linux should do its best to support word of mouth evangelists with the best user experience possible, because even though free software evangelism is definitely viral, retention favors convenience over all other factors when the price is zero. But this has always been about ego. Jensen Huang thinks he’s the biggest hot shot in the world, and that culture pervades his company. But Linux is going to be around a lot longer than somebody’s game rendering coprocessors. I’d appeal to humility, not some meaningless details about APIs. Definitely not a business case.