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Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago

I'm sick of the proprietary driver. Especially if using Flatpak and even worse, if you have multiple Kernels installed, especially updating Kernels often on Archlinux. In Flatpak multiple driver versions need to be downloaded (each above 300 MB) and they are always fully downloaded, not partially. With an internet speed that was not too fast it took a lot of time just for Nvidia. And then each Kernel module had to be compiled and build with Kernel updates, which took time with each Kernel update.

Otherwise, running the gpu worked pretty good, that is not my issue with it. There were here and there stuff that was annoying, in example Wayland was not good supported back then.