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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No

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

If nvidia is an evil, then why you suppose them to provide you free drivers.

Just drop nvidia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We can drop nVidia and also talk about how evil they are at the same time. nVidia sells hardware, you would expect them to provide drivers for their hardware, instead they are actively preventing anybody else from making drivers for their hardware.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

you would expect them to provide drivers for their hardware

I'd correct: we would expect them to provide at least documentation.

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

This is my point. Telling people to just drop Nvidia is delusional. It's Linux desktop contributers problem to fix. Doesn't matter if it's fair or right, but Linux DE is never going to be mainstream with Wayland type issues and having to ditch the top hardware makers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

+1

Telling people to just drop Nvidia is delusional

We can tell people that is going to buy a new computer to avoid nvidia :)

It’s Linux desktop contributers problem to fix.

We can't write drivers for platforms that we don't have documentation. linux desktop contributors dropping support for nvidia entirely is not a bad decision, though

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

AFAIK, AMD is not as good as nvidia on Windows. Also because they are less popular, they get less support from program/game developers, which is probably why people are picking nvidia.

I think even if AMD is strictly better than nvidia, it will still take years for nvidia to fall unfortunately. Look at the AMD v.s. intel problem, Intel has been strictly behind AMD for many years now, yet intel still dominates the laptop market, and doing okay in the desktop market.

Obviously, this doesn't mean open-source supporters all need to cave to nvidia. Personally, I will avoid nvidia hardware when I can. But I think we have a long and hard battle ahead of us.