any of yall been using it? the open nvidia driver + nvk?
how well is it working these days?
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nvk looks promising but there's still a lot of work to do. it's getting better, still it's nowhere near the NVIDIA's proprietary drivers in terms of performance: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-70-nouveau
i see no mention of crashing and such, so i assume it's already good for just outputting display?
afaik it is. I haven't tested it thoroughly but it looks stable enough for general use. some games don't work though, so I don't know if maybe some applications might have the same issues