NVIDIA are releasing open source kernel drivers

[Hoser Rob]

Just found this, looks like nvidia's open sourcing of their drivers was largely motivated by the fact that they were recently hacked and 75Gb (!) of source code was put inline: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-dlss ... ys-servers

[DisturbedDragon]

Well, just take a look elsewhere and note which brand of GPU generates the most issues posted here.

That's just it though. I've used just about every nvidia GPU imaginable over the past few decades on many flavours of Linux and can honestly say only encountered a minor issue, maybe two, in all that time. Not to say there isn't buggy software out there. There certainly is. I think many times it comes down more to user knowledge and not the hardware or software.

[rene]

I think many times it comes down more to user knowledge and not the hardware or software.

The issue with Nvidia hardware on Linux doesn't exist at the level of bugs-or-not but at the level of you being or not being okay with the company Nvidia through compatibility of their closed driver dictating which kernels you may run and/or with, quoting myself from above,

This is to say that the Nvidia closed, binary kernel driver can do literally any and all; interfere with any and all and for the paranoically inclined in theory even act maliciously and/or harness capabilities of all the rest of your computer. It's to say that at the very least conceptually the millions upon millions of lines of open, reviewable Linux-kernel code in the one fell swoop of loading the "nvidia" kernel module turns itself into a non-reviewable black box of Microsoft-esque proportions.

If/when as per this thread the kernel-level driver turns open enough to no longer have this knock-on effect then "all" will be fine from that standpoint -- but it's not now and then indeed specifically for those more invested in "Linux", i.e., in the kernel proper.