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I know plenty of people that use Nvidia and Linux, and it's something I've done in the past. You just suck it up and install the closed-source black box driver

by hx8 5mo ago

I know plenty of people that use Nvidia and Linux, and it's something I've done in the past. You just suck it up and install the closed-source black box drivers and get on with your life.

bee_rider 5mo ago
Although, eventually NVIDIA will drop support for your card and you’ll have an annoying situation. This happened for Pascal on Arch Linux a while ago. The 10X0 series are pretty old at this point, but then Linux shines on older systems too.
- notnullorvoid 5mo ago
  You can still use the old drivers they work fine. This also isn't unique to Linux, Nvidia's latest Windows drivers also don't support 10 series cards anymore.
  - Narishma 5mo ago
    Unless the old drivers have security issues, then you're stuck with the nouveau driver which sometimes only has very basic support for some GPUs.
    - hx8 5mo ago
      Is this the case for any hardware or are we discussing a purely hypothetical?
      - Narishma 5mo ago
        I have an old laptop with a GT 240M that's stuck in such a situation.
- kouteiheika 5mo ago
  NVidia supports their GPUs for a really long time (unlike AMD, which paradoxically drops official support really fast; e.g. see their ROCm support). Anyway, by the time NVidia drops support for their current newer GPUs there's a high chance that NVK[1] will be ready for general use. [1] -- https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/nvk.html https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/nvk.html