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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 15:30:17 JST nixCraft 🐧

   NVidia proprietary driver and gaming #linux users be like ...

   • Eduard Toloza (edu4rdshl@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 16:32:01 JST Eduard Toloza

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     @nixCraft and it's okay. If it works, it works.

   • Tadeo D'Oria 🇦🇷 💚🧡 (rekkert@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 16:57:08 JST Tadeo D'Oria 🇦🇷 💚🧡

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     @nixCraft Never understood the hate Nvidia gets on this, I've used their drivers for more than a decade at this point (I need CUDA for work) and I never had an issue with updates or performance, used multiple GPUs at this point and not once was a source of problems

   • hdante (hdante@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 17:58:33 JST hdante

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     @nixCraft NVIDIA, fuck you

   • bargoderea (bargoderea@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 18:29:42 JST bargoderea

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     @nixCraft unless your objective is gaming on Linux, and I mean really gaming, like playing the latest games every day, the latest updates make Nouveau powerful enough

   • Cybarbie (nf3xn@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 20:28:40 JST Cybarbie

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     @nixCraft you cuda fooled me

   • Matt (wizard3rdclass@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 00:51:59 JST Matt

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     @nixCraft Misuse for profit of source from creative people vastly predates Linux. Companies' usage of DECUS contributions, for example.

     This is also a prime example of the dystopian society where winner takes all, "show me a good loser and I'll show you a lose", "never give a sucker an even break".

     WRT Linux and GPL, this has always been the tension. You can overlook it a bit if the company then contributes back in other ways. But not Nvidia. Or RealTek.

   • Owen Tyme (owentyme@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 21:06:33 JST Owen Tyme

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     @nixCraft My system is all open source software, right up until you hit my Steam installation, but that's because I'm using an AMD GPU, which doesn't require closed-source drivers.

     I'm fine with closed source games. That's how the gaming industry works, but I'll never accept the idiotic shenanigans of Nvidia.

     Nvidia doesn't support open standards and they actively fight against them, because their ultimate goal is total control of the GPU industry, rather than fairly competing in it.