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OUR EXPERT
Neil Mohr
remembers the delights of playing Tomb Raider on SLIed Voodoo 2 cards through OpenGL-based Glide back in the day.
OUR EXPERT
Neil Mohr remembers the delights of playing Tomb Raider on SLIed Voodoo 2 cards through OpenGL-based Glide back in the day.
It seems fair to say that Nvidia doesn’t have the I best reputation among Linux fans. If one picture could sum up a thousand words of the detest some developers have felt towards Nvidia, it would be the classic photo of Linus Torvalds middle-finger gesticulating to a crowd while uttering a favourite four-word profanity. Somewhat ironically, it’s Nvidia’s sheer success as a peddler of AI-powering GPUs that has forced it to soften its proprietary approach to its driver distribution – the issue being that nearly the entire AI world runs Linux servers and having to constantly post-install proprietary Nvidia drivers after kernel updates was costing time – and as we know, that’s money. So now even Linus says they’re not all bad…
But you don’t have to be a server-farm-running sysadmin to fall foul of Nvidia driver issues – plenty of home users have suffered problems post-system upgrade for similar reasons, although getting drivers in the first place can be befuddling. This is partly due to multiple sources being available, different install routes being offered by different distros, not knowing which driver version you should be running and, of course, Wayland sticking its oar in.