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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by lmm on Friday March 04, 2022 @04:58AM (#30552647)
The binary driver made me a big NVidia fan FWIW. It works, consistently and easily, on both Linux and FreeBSD. The unified release makes both of those feel like a first-class citizen alongside Windows. It's always been more reliable than the ATI/AMD drivers, even when the latter are notionally open-source. (I will say that Intel video drivers have also always been good).

Sure, it'd be nice for it to be open-source too, but frankly if the software is good enough that I never want to fix bugs in it then it's a lot less important whether it's open-source.

Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by hsbauauvhabzb on Friday March 04, 2022 @07:19AM (#30553658)
So long as you don’t mind getting wayland 6 years late.
Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by lmm on Friday March 04, 2022 @08:10AM (#30554173)
I use FreeBSD now so it was however many years late for me already. And even when I was using Linux, the benefits seemed extremely marginal - like, sure, in theory I can see some situations where using two screens with different DPI settings would be useful, but it's rarely something I've wanted or needed in practice - when I got a laptop with a 4k screen I did try using it with an old 1080p monitor for a little while but it looked so bad in comparison that I replaced that with a 4k monitor as soon as I could.
Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by hsbauauvhabzb on Friday March 04, 2022 @07:16PM (#30562428)
BSD makes you a minority of a minority, so that’s probably to be expected. Afaik it offers sandboxing and a better security model, reduced screen tearing, etc. Nvidia dragging their feet has surely impacted on the early adoption of the project.

It’s also created painpoonts. I’d be using fedora, but there’s no assurance on the content within the fedora community repos. I don’t really want to apply trust there, so I stick with Ubuntu for better or worse, all because of nvidia.

Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by andi999 on Friday March 04, 2022 @06:10AM (#30553168)
Which card do you use?
Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by lmm on Friday March 04, 2022 @08:05AM (#30554119)
I've had several over the years; I'm currently on a GTX 1060 (this machine is getting old, but I don't game anywhere near as much as I used to, especially not AAA).