Why is Nvidia so dismissive towards Linux? Won’t they make more money by being compatible with Linux? Me for example will never buy an Nvidia cards until it surpasses or at least matches AMD in driver support.
I mean, it seems like Nvidia barely even cares about gamers in general anymore, let alone linux users.
It’s sort of like WiFi and 5G mobile drivers (especially the software driven radios), a lot of proprietary stuff is in the driver that reveals hardware secrets. GPU is also regulated now for export controls from USA-derived technology. With software-driven radios, you see a lot of effort to keep people from using bands outside their national laws.
Nvidia makes money no matter what because they have the fastest hardware on the market
They also have the “premium” name recognition like Intel
Definition of look-but-don’t-touch open source.
Nvidia has always been a pain in the ass. At least we get source code now. That is why I switched to AMD/ATI years ago. I haven’t kept up though if they are still good players or not.
I’m sorry, but there are no good players.
That’s kernel modules. Usually they just forward requests from userland. Most juicy stuff is insile libraries.
So, I’m getting the distinct impression that I should not attempt a switch to Linux while I have an NVIDIA graphics card. Is that an accurate assessment?
It works perfectly fine if you use the closed source drivers…it just needs a few extra steps.
Not true at all anymore. Distros like NobaraOS set things up by default (and increases gaming performance by ~4% over fedora according to Linux Experiment) so you don’t really have to worry
It’s just not as convenient as AMD for power users
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