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Again, historically it was warranted because Nvidia had their own strong opinions in their proprietary closed-source driver, and hardware acceleration in Waylan
by vitus 2y ago
Again, historically it was warranted because Nvidia had their own strong opinions in their proprietary closed-source driver, and hardware acceleration in Wayland just straight up didn't work with said driver for many years because Nvidia was trying to push their own alternative [0], up until 2021 when they finally caved [1].
I agree that the naming of the command-line flag was childish, but I think it was reasonable to refuse to be strongarmed into doing unpaid work to support Nvidia's end-run around standards that all the other players in the space adopted.
[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Streams-vs-GBM-Toolkits https://www.phoronix.com/news/Streams-vs-GBM-Toolkits
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-495.44-Linux-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-495.44-Linux-Driver