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Things are changing fast. Nvidia has their own "open source drivers" that are almost identical to the proprietary ones and the NVK project has open source drivers that might outperform the proprietary drivers in most games.
Now the only reason you might install the property drivers by the end of this year is cuda and potentially open CL.I think they're protective of their drivers because about the only thing separating their rt cards from their quatro cards are their drivers and software locked features. Quartos probably get put in more Linux systems than any other type of system.
Open source driver is maintained by the community and spend a long time just to get over the man-made barrier posted by nvidia.
If you think locking down hardware is a practice against the spirit of open source, don't throw money at them.
So, it works don't it. Your literally alienating anyone who just switched to Linux and is trying out open source software for that?
Nvidia is the best graphics card you can get on Windows and your saying instead of keeping your hardware longer, throw it out and spend almost 1k on a new graphics card? If you didn't pay attention to the state of Linux drivers before you decided to flip Microsoft the bird your saying "too bad go back to windows or get a real graphics card"?
That's a shitty take and if I'd listened to people like you without testing the waters myself I'd have never left windows because I happen to use my graphics cards for at least five years. In that time period I'd probably have forgotten why I wanted to switch in the first place.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be impatiently & excitedly waiting for the open source Nvidia drivers get good enough for me to switch. I do afteral have at least 4 more years of life in my card.😜