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Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% by jabirali on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:24PM (#23529132)
> 3D graphics situation is not great thanks to NVIDIA and AMD.

AMD is now one of the good guys when it comes to open source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMDGPU

Basically, since 2015, AMD has offered an official driver under an MIT license for Linux and *BSD. Personally, I'm definitely choosing AMD for my next laptop :).

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Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% by davexunit on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:47PM (#23529456)
Unless things have changed recently, AMD GPUs still require proprietary firmware and thus do not work on a fully free system. I bought an AMD GPU a few years ago to try it out and it didn't work.
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Re:Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25% by tadfisher on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:59PM (#23530668)
As do Intel[1] and Nvidia[2].

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

[2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

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