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Thankfully, Linux has alternatives right now. And if you want free drivers, they aren't on the table anyway. If Nvidia dropped off the face of the Earth in Lin
by zanny 13y ago
Thankfully, Linux has alternatives right now. And if you want free drivers, they aren't on the table anyway.
If Nvidia dropped off the face of the Earth in Linux support everyone would just buy AMD discrete or Intel integrated parts and not bat an eye. And both of those companies have dozens or hundreds of developers working in the FOSS space. And for some reason, they also get my money, where I purposefully avoid Nvidia products (I don't buy their Tegra APUs, I'd never buy a computer with one of their graphics accelerators, etc).
- iwwr 13y agoI guess you don't consider gaming a worthwhile endeavor on Linux?
- zanny 13y agoI have no problem running most games under radeonSI. Only ones I have that don't work are Natural Selection 2 and Metro Last Light, which is mostly waiting on GL 3.3 in LLVM 3.5. For example, DOTA2 / Portal 2 / TF2 all run at ~60 fps with high / ultra settings on my 7870. There is nothing about driver openness that would impede their ability to run OpenGL games besides the version support, and that is rapidly being remedied.
- baggers 13y agoor laptops apparently