That cursor in the center of the screenshot is really annoying
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Issues on OpenSuse and Fedora do match my experience. Don't know why so many people put up with those distros.
It's important to point out that AMD isn't perfect either (I don't know about Intel), since it requires you to install proprietary firmware. But it's obviously a huge improvement, since it doesn't require proprietary drivers. If we forced Nvidia to do what AMD does, we would be in a much better position. So if you care about freedom, Nvidia is the last company you should choose.
the trick is to only use old cards, so the driver "improvements" don't really affect them. works for any OS and manufacturer.
If you are that concerned about firmware modern hardware is not your friend. Everything from your CPU to WiFi to integrated graphics requires proprietary software
I mean, that doesn't really have to do with modern hardware. CPU's need a blob in the bios since like forever. Also you don't need any proprietary firmware on the os for a cpu
Fair enough I suppose. I just am pointing out that the low level hardware is not free and is pretty much a black box.
Things are changing fast. Nvidia has their own "open source drivers" that are almost identical to the proprietary ones and the NVK project has open source drivers that might outperform the proprietary drivers in most games.
Now the only reason you might install the property drivers by the end of this year is cuda and potentially open CL.I think they're protective of their drivers because about the only thing separating their rt cards from their quatro cards are their drivers and software locked features. Quartos probably get put in more Linux systems than any other type of system.
Open source driver is maintained by the community and spend a long time just to get over the man-made barrier posted by nvidia.
If you think locking down hardware is a practice against the spirit of open source, don't throw money at them.