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NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 5 months ago by vividspecter@lemm.ee to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There it is folks! The predication has come true.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What prediction?

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The prediction that NVIDIA's open GPU Linux kernel driver would be the default for Turing and newer GPUs, I assume.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't Nvidia always notoriously bad with their driver support on Linux?

[–] mihnt@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago

For 20+ years now, yes.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes. Some people will come out and say that no they used to be good, but it's not really true, they've always been iffy.

It's just that ATI's used to be even worse until AMD bought them up and moved Radeon to being much more FOSS-friendly.

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The prediction that we will have decent open source NVIDIA drivers this year.

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

So running games in Linux using my 3080 is going to work better now?

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more like small bugs in the kernel portion will be fixed faster. There are a lot of small patches needed to build the dkms module against the kernel as mainline and stable evolve - they're often carried in various distro packages until upstream (Nvidia) picks them up for a future release. The open driver should speed that cycle along.

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

😁 ok thanks. I get the speeding the cycle up bit! Makes sense that it'll be easier to fix bugs if the code is open.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

At first, it will be more stable but less performant. Performance will come with time.