I have to agree with this. My daily work machine is a Thinkpad laptop with a Quadro P600. Most laptops that have a dGPU have a NVIDIA dGPU. I need the NVIDIA drivers mainly to drive my external screen wired to the P600. These drivers have been working flawlessly since 2 years now with Xorg. Not a single crash or problem. And they are extremely performant. I think NVIDIA gets waaay to much flak in the Linux community as if it was a cool thing to hate on NVIDIA with "AMD good" "NVIDIA bad". I will never understand this attitude. Even if they are closed source, NVIDIA do maintain their drivers and do it well. Nope, they are not going to ever Open Source their drivers they spent decades working on. And then I read about people having varying issues with their beloved AMD card, often driver bugs that may or may not be fixed in a later kernel, while I had exactly zero issue in the last 2 years... On 10/15/20 2:38 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 14. Oktober 2020, 08:08:25 CEST schrieb Jiri Slaby:
For the "other" record:
TW CUDA users are SNAFU'ed already:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/rdiff/X11:Drivers:Video/nvidia-gfxG05?linkrev=base&rev=89
Some interesting notes:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/opencl-not-working-with-kernel-5-9/156...
From a user's point of view, this controversy is really nasty, because Windows users who require CUDA have a significant advantage in this regard.
Try to explain this to an average user, who shows interest in using Linux, without sounding ridiculous.
Self-crippling comes to my mind.
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