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Note for anyone reading this: it's not at all comparable to what AMD is doing. AMD driver is fully open, including userspace components, while nvidia has open s
by 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
Note for anyone reading this: it's not at all comparable to what AMD is doing. AMD driver is fully open, including userspace components, while nvidia has open sourced a (relatively) tiny kernel module, and keeps the vast majority of their code closed.
https://lwn.net/Articles/894861/ https://lwn.net/Articles/894861/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344981 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31344981
- gigatexal 4y agoThank you for clarifying. I’ll likely stick with AMD then.
- mmis1000 4y agoAt least that make nvidia card on linux to be in the same state as nvidia card on windows. Still a giant improvement. It's good enough (for most user) that you can just install the binary user component driver and run the card without limited to random linux distro or version. Imaging you can't even do any windows update because nvidia card may have compatibility problem and turn your desktop black. It's the status that nvidia on linux now.