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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by murgindrag on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:13PM (#24347755)
NVidia has always been a headache for me. I run ATI on Linux. I use xmonad as a window manager, and NVidia's proprietary drivers just didn't handle multiple screens correctly. I switched to free drivers, and they did one fewer monitor than I was driving. I switched to ATI, and then things just worked.

What's more surprising is that ATI doesn't take this opening.

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by trissylegs on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:29AM (#24352984)
At some point Nvidia crippled their drivers if you didn't have a Quadro on Linux. Eg: No multi-monitor. Not sure how of that they do now. So some guy resoldered some resistors on a GTX 690 (at the time the highest spec card they sold). To make it identify as the Quado with same specs.

https://hackaday.com/2013/03/18/hack-removes-firmware-crippl...

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Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs by distances on Friday September 04, 2020 @02:11AM (#24372190)
AMD purchased ATI in 2006, and the brand hasn't been in use since 2010..
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