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Sure, the only way to fix that is with more QA, which as it turns out, no one wants to pay for (on the desktop). EDIT: And even if you have better QA and the d

Sure, the only way to fix that is with more QA, which as it turns out, no one wants to pay for (on the desktop). EDIT: And even if you have better QA and the distro is rock solid, when that binary blob Nvidia gives you that your engineers can't fix breaks, you'll still get the blame.

ThrowawayR2 7y ago
> ...when that binary blob Nvidia gives you that your engineers can't fix breaks, you'll still get the blame. The more things change, the more they stay the same. When MS was getting sued for underspecing system requirements during the Vista era, one of the interesting bits that got revealed to the public during the trial is a chart of Vista crashes/lockups by source: https://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/nvidia-drivers-responsible-for-nearly-30-of-vista-crashes-in-20/ https://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/nvidia-drivers-responsib.... The biggest single source? nVidia at just under 29%. Another 9.3% was attributable to ATI (now AMD). Only about 18% were directly attributable to MS itself. Video driver crappiness was reportedly a huge motivation for Microsoft's switch to the WDDM video driver model.