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Unlike nVidia, Intel ships open source drivers ahead of hardware release - for example, from: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-graphics-linux https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-graphics-linu... , they provided: > open-source, upstream Linux support for the Intel Arc B580 Graphics at launch-time Other vendors do this as well - AMD's RDNA4 graphics support is also being upstreamed ahead of launch: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-611-features https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-611-features