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So what does this mean? He was the main contributer. Is Nouveau the only open source driver Nvidia cards can use on Linux?
I believe so, yes. Other than that there's the official closed driver. Nvidia also "open-sourced" their driver for the RTX 20 series and up, which you could technically run, but I didn't hear much good from it.
I've heard that it's not fully open source. Some components of it are still closed source.
And the parts that are open source are basically just a code dump. No commit history, so no comments explaining things in commits. That's worse than some source code leaks.
Times like these make me really miss Omega Drivers. :(
Why go for third party drivers if you can go for AMD?
Some people might have gotten their computers before using Linux, and the GPUs are either too hard to swap (in some prebuilts and most laptops), or new ones are too expensive.
That's the situation I'm in. 12 year old me did not know the problems Nvidia had with Linux, especially Wayland. My server on Ubuntu did not have problems with the GT 210 after all - which was to be expected considering it was headless and just used Nouveau.
For it to be very hard if not impossible to swap in Laptops I agree, that's true. For desktops it should be a drop-in replacement tho, considering the equivalents of AMD to Nvidia all need the same, if not less, requirements (Power, Other components, Plugs). Selling my 1070 I would get ~100€, which is the price of a used RX Vega 56, the AMD equivalent of my card. Considering I want to upgrade in the near future that would be pretty pointless however.
That's also the situation I'm in, I was also 12 when I got my PC XD
But now that I got my RTX 3080 working with NixOS, I don't think I'll swap it.
Because AMD GPUs don't have proper ray tracing support. Hell, they can't even do frame generation.
Believe me, I'd love nothing more than to own an all-AMD PC, but until their GPUs are as good as their CPUs, I'm stuck with a hybrid machine.
The article answers your question
Read the article and was confused. Good thing there's a comment section to ask questions.
So there's quite a few errors here:
That clears up my specific confusion perfectly! Thanks!
Me when I lie on the internet:
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