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Yeah, games are the big reason I jumped ship and I'm pretty excited about the ongoing work porting Wine to Wayland. I'm also too broke to upgrade from my Nvidia card so the efforts improving Nvidia on Wayland are greatly appreciated.
Gotta save up for an education somehow.😄
Yes, "just buy new hardware" is not a solution.
But dont let some news fool ya. NVIDIA already won the AI race, so their "new open source driver" will only benefit their newly sold products
Yeah, thankfully I've got a turing card (2000 +)which is said to be the cutoff for the open source drivers.