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I have had perfect working VFIO setups with both the 1070 and 1080ti from nVidia, there are many comprehensive guides and working around the driver error code 4

• dtx1 6y ago
  That's nice but an error thats designed to fuck me as a customer is a good reason not to buy from that company, and the general state of nvidia drivers on linux makes me not want to chose them for a new build. Nonetheless, i'm glad to hear you got it working, it sure is a fun thing to do.
  • calcifer 6y ago
    > the general state of nvidia drivers on linux ... is great? They have been well supported for decades, has working drivers for every GPU on release day and even 10+ year old cards get updated drivers for new kernels / X servers whereas AMD takes months/years to have usable drivers in a stable kernel.
    • dtx1 6y ago
      Is that so? I always here: stay away from nvidia on Linux, especially but not limited to using Wayland. Is that truly not the case?
      • calcifer 6y ago
        Well, my experience [1] has been nearly perfect, certainly much better than what I've had with AMD. Nvidia has been pretty much plug&play for me for a long time, with very few issues. For Wayland yes, Nvidia is using a different approach than AMD/Intel so most desktop environments don't support the Nvidia way, resulting in a poor experience. That said, Wayland desktops as a whole are still quite some time away from reaching feature parity with X, so I'm not too worried just yet. [1] For reference, I've been using Linux (and only Linux) on the desktop for ~18 years.
• throwaway2048 6y ago
  Until NVIDIA decides to "fix" the workarounds, again.