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NVIDIA created quality (but proprietary) drivers for Linux early on, when supporting Linux at all was not a given. They should get at least a tiny bit of credit
by xyproto 1mo ago
NVIDIA created quality (but proprietary) drivers for Linux early on, when supporting Linux at all was not a given. They should get at least a tiny bit of credit for this.
- iwjxjwjdjw 1mo agoEven a broken clock is right twice a day. They’ve all but abandoned these so called quality drivers since, so no, no credit is deserved.
- robotresearcher 1mo agoWhat OS and whose drivers are running on all these NVIDIA-equipped computers today?
- throw1234567891 1mo agoUnless it's a 24 hour clock. Then only once.
- xyproto 1mo agoAchtually... if it's a 31556952 second clock, it's only right once a year.
- axegon_ 1mo agoQuality? Calling those "quality" is a bit of a stretch. Installing was and still is a gamble and so is every tiny system update. That hasn't changed a bit. And I'm saying that as someone who was first introduced to Linux on a Matrox GPU.
- xyproto 1mo agoAs long as one didn't have to downgrade X11, they were straightforward to install. You are right that upgrades was a pain, but I believe the drivers themselves were on-par with the Windows drivers.
- seba_dos1 1mo agoTo be fair, those were the best that were there back then. But that was more than 20 years ago. Since then Intel came to work on Mesa, later AMD and various embedded GPU vendors, and now Nvidia is one of the worst options out there.