As someone who've played video games and obsessed over graphics cards long before this all started, don't get your hopes up.
replyas gamers, we got burnt by nvidia way too many times. I'm still holding grudge over shutting down 3dfx.
replyNvidia is indeed a terrible company when it comes to open source, etc. however, as someone who has been gaming on desktop hardware since the 6xxx card days, Nvidia hardware has always worked. I switched to Linux full time since the 2XX days (maybe it was the 280 gtx?) and never had a lot of the problems everyone else got on Linux (using only the closed source drivers).
replyNVIDIA introduced programs like The Way It's Meant to be Played, optimizing major game titles specifically for NVIDIA architecture, which made competitions like AMD cards underperform in critical releases.
replyI'm old enough to remember.
Likewise, their hardware has been rock solid and very performant for me. I bought most of my current setup second hand and they've been going strong for years now.
replyI think they will be, Nvidia has released open source model that also included the data it was trained on. I think they are the only ones that have done that.
replyHanding out digging spots if you are the shovel manufacturer sounds reasonable.
replyAs long as the spots continue to be compatible with shovels from other shovel manufacturers
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