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[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Technically nVidia chose that fight, not Linux users. nVidia is chocked full of proprietary implementations meant to bog down competition, for example all CUDA technology including translation layers are technically illegal to even look at without nVidia proprietary drivers. All alternatives are free open source, afaik.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I agree, but that's what a linux user would say...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, I'm not a Linux user and I say that as well. Nvidia does not just not care about Linux, they actively try to act against their open source driver implementation and working with an Nvidia graphics card on Linux is much harder than using the alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Well, I’m not a Linux user and I say that as well. Nvidia does not just not care about Linux, they actively try to act against their open source driver implementation

Can you give more information on this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I agree, but that’s what a linux user would say…

"linux user" should be put in double quotes :)

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Technically nVidia chose that fight, not Linux users.

nVidia is chocked full of proprietary implementations meant to bog down competition, for example all CUDA technology including translation layers are technically illegal to even look at without nVidia proprietary drivers.

This already described that Linux user started that fight, and they chose it.

But they cannot do anything than using the proprietary drivers, screaming about moral, propagating GNUism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

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