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Re:Linux on the Mac – state of the union by CountSessine on Monday December 12, 2016 @04:10AM (#13156730)
What's NVIDIA's secret sauce? Being able to build great silicon.

NVidia's defining characteristic has been designing good drivers.

Even when they've been behind ATI/AMD in hardware, they've been ahead in driver stability and performance. Especially on Linux where they largely own the CG/post/design market (which mostly uses Linux workstations) and they are the only GPU vendor that has somehow squeezed Windows-competitive performance out of Xorg.

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Re:Linux on the Mac – state of the union by coredog64 on Monday December 12, 2016 @10:21AM (#13158616)
> NVidia's defining characteristic has been designing good drivers.

This. When shopping for discrete video cards, I no longer look at AMD's offerings because I'm not willing to fight with their driver, fret over whether or not I should apply updates, etc.

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