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Re:Free user space for non-graphics drivers by wmf on Saturday June 06, 2020 @04:17PM (#23441926)
Red Hat and Canonical aren't suckers; if you dump an infinite maintenance burden on them they will think very hard before accepting it.
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Re:Free user space for non-graphics drivers by chrisseaton on Saturday June 06, 2020 @04:27PM (#23441982)
What are they going to do? Ship a distribution without proper graphics support?
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Re:Free user space for non-graphics drivers by wmf on Saturday June 06, 2020 @04:35PM (#23442023)
Basically yes.

Note that most of the GPU driver problems are on phones and neither RHEL nor Ubuntu officially support phones at all. And there are also many PC components that RHEL/Ubuntu don't support either, although usually that's just because the hardware is too new.

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Re:Free user space for non-graphics drivers by CoolGuySteve on Saturday June 06, 2020 @04:39PM (#23442052)
The wayland login in Ubuntu 18.04 already broke Nvidia's proprietary driver.

So yes.

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Re:Free user space for non-graphics drivers by bonzini on Saturday June 06, 2020 @06:31PM (#23442885)
Red Hat ships nouveau. Nvidia is the one that chooses which distros to support (in addition to upstream kernels) and adapts their driver shim if needed.
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