My dad used to say "It's easy to be generous and kind when things are going well for you. You can only tell what a man is worth during hard times". Nvidia is at it's high financially. When shit hits the fan, things will start looking very differently. You only have to look at what kind of people Jensen is bffs with.
replyIt is also a company with a terrible history regarding open-source. AMD is much better from every point of view.
replyNVIDIA 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.
replyQuality? 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.
replyEven 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.
replyUnless it's a 24 hour clock. Then only once.
replyWhat OS and whose drivers are running on all these NVIDIA-equipped computers today?
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