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[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

NVIDIA is only open-sourcing the kernel module. User-space librairies and firmware remain closed source and proprietary.

For comparison, AMD and Intel provide both open-source kernel module and libraries while firmware remains closed and proprietary.

User-space librairies also have a major impact on performance, NVIDIA didn't make a move towards making these open-source. Also, GPU older than RTX 20xx will not benefit from the new open-source kernel module.

While it will certainly improve things for using NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, it's nothing revolutionary.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 15 points 3 months ago

Yes, it is! All of the issues people on Linux have with nvidia come from the binary blob kernel module.
Philosophically, it might not be a huge difference, but it solves the Problems end users had.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

I just want nvidia Hybrid laptops to work properly