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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by kmeisthax on Monday August 15, 2022 @03:35PM (#32474252)
> No they don't. The Linux kernel ABI doesn't really ever break. Any open-source driver shouldn't require any knowledge of internals from user-space.

[laughs in Nvidia]

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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by anon291 on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:42PM (#32475086)
NVIDIA is not an open-source driver [1], and if you look in your dmesg logs, your kernel will complain about how it's tainted. That doesn't change the truth value about what I said about 'open-source' drivers.

[1] I think this may have changed very very recently.

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