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Re:Post-Open Source by electricant on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:13AM (#24418983)
Which is not actually a bad thing per se.

Those drivers do work better than their free/open-source counterpart but are hard to install (especially if secure boot is enabled) and do not play nice with the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem.

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Re:Post-Open Source by AstralStorm on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:23AM (#24419052)
No, it would be illegal to install those drivers. Not hard at all.

Radeon drivers specifically play nice with the ecosystem, but they feature crypto firmware blobs.

Network drivers tends to be good neighbors too.

Nvidia drivers cause more of a problem, as do ugly smartphone GLES drivers. (Not to mention very custom network chipsets there.)

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