alt Hacker NewsModern GPU drivers are a nightmare for open source. Wifi no better but slightly less critical. Power management. Forget Linux this should be the year of the NetBSD desktop but we can’t have nice architectures bc of economics in computing. The whole scenario makes sense but the emergent result sucks.
> Modern GPU drivers are a nightmare for open source.
Modern NVIDIA drviers. Let me fix that for you.
Intel and AMD has their full stack in mainline already, and AMD made great effort to enable their cards fully under open source drivers, as their agreements and law allows. You can even use HDCP without exposing sensitive parts, if you want.
Intel also works completely fine.
However, NVIDIA's shenanigans and HDMI forum's v2.1 protectionism is something else completely.