So running games in Linux using my 3080 is going to work better now?
I think it’s more like small bugs in the kernel portion will be fixed faster. There are a lot of small patches needed to build the dkms module against the kernel as mainline and stable evolve - they’re often carried in various distro packages until upstream (Nvidia) picks them up for a future release. The open driver should speed that cycle along.
At first, it will be more stable but less performant. Performance will come with time.
There it is folks! The predication has come true.
What prediction?
The prediction that NVIDIA’s open GPU Linux kernel driver would be the default for Turing and newer GPUs, I assume.
Wasn’t Nvidia always notoriously bad with their driver support on Linux?
Yes. Some people will come out and say that no they used to be good, but it’s not really true, they’ve always been iffy.
It’s just that ATI’s used to be even worse until AMD bought them up and moved Radeon to being much more FOSS-friendly.
The prediction that we will have decent open source NVIDIA drivers this year.
