Hi Michale, Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> writes:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 02:38:19PM +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Self-crippling comes to my mind.
Yes, "self-crippling" is probably the most fitting term for users who decided to ignore the long existing (20 years?) licensing problem and keep buying NVidia hardware because they believe it's their right to demand someone to "just make it work somehow" (i.e. do some dark magic to mask the incompatibility) so that they can keep pretending the problem does not exist.
Even more fitting for those who do it on a rolling distribution with latest kernel like Tumbleweed.
While I fully agree with you here for private users (and believe me, I myself will not be buying any NVidia hardware ever again unless they change their stance fundamentally), this stance unfortunately completely leaves behind corporate users like myself at $dayjob: I got a machine from the limited corporate portfolio that came with a NVidia card. So I have literally no choice other than deal with it (it's not like I can rip the card out of a laptop[1]). And at the point in time when I got the machine, it would not boot with Leap, because the kernel was just too old, so unless I would run some other distro, I had to stick with Tumbleweed. Unfortunately I have no solution for this issue, besides all corporations never buying NVidia hardware ever again, but given NVidia's portfolio, we all know how likely that is going to happen in the near future. Cheers, Dan Footnotes: [1] Yes, I can turn the card off, which I mostly do nowadays, as I like the machine not turning into a stove that survives 30min on battery... -- Dan Čermák <dcermak@suse.com> Software Engineer Development tools SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Director: Felix Imendörffer