Hi Michale,
Michal Kubecek
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...
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Dan Čermák