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What would the practical effect be for me as a user, say I render in Blender, or I play a few intensive 3d games?
by prox 4y ago
What would the practical effect be for me as a user, say I render in Blender, or I play a few intensive 3d games?
- loganberries 4y agoCurrently, you rely on Nvidia to keep the drivers up to date and working with the kernel you use in your OS. If the drivers aren't upstream, a future kernel can break them. So if you update your OS, it might no longer support your GPU without installing an alternative. Nvidia are responsible for getting this fixed in a timely manner. If the drivers are upstream, then people aren't allowed to break them when they make changes to the kernel. There should never be a kernel or OS upgrade that causes the drivers to no longer work, the people who made the breaking change are responsible for fixing it before it gets released to you.
- prox 4y agoThanks, so it means a better out of the box stability for end users.
- worthless-trash 4y agoAnd when you update your kernel, you wont need to recompile the kernel modules every time.