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For over two decades the Linux community has watched from the sidelines as Nvidia offered marketleading GPU and compute performance, but only through a proprietary driver stack. Yet ever since AMD moved to an open source driver with much success, the pressure has been growing on Nvidia to do the same. Finally the company has decided to do the smart thing and transition to an open source kernel driver.
There have been indications in recent years that Nvidia was finally succumbing to pressure and developing open source components. Such signs include an Nvidia Tegra driver in early 2022 and being more helpful towards the open soure Nouveau Nvidia driver project.