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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 15:37:50 JST

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    翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 15:37:50 JST 翠星石 翠星石
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    • EdBoatConnoisseur
    • Maija
    @maija @EdBoatConnoisseur >support a company with broken open source drivers
    Nvidia has never released a free software GPU driver.

    The closest they have come is a GPU driver with obfuscated sources.

    Another group has developed a free software driver without Nvidia - Nouveau (which is fully free software, with free peripheral software and free VBIOS init up to the 780 Ti).

    >even though their official drivers are free
    Nvidia's official drivers are clearly nonfree proprietary malware and aren't even gratis, as you pay for them as a percentage of the hardware cost.

    >use a company that supports free software more like amd you hypocritical proprietard
    As I pointed out, ironically AMD is worse.

    Every driver AMD has ever provided has been proprietary software.

    As for the AMDGPU driver, half of it is proprietary peripheral software that that runs on the GPU that you're not allowed to understand or modify.

    There is a nasty hack available where you go get the radeon driver and hack it up to not load proprietary software and force it to load for AMD GPUs and you at least get native resolution, but not ACPI S3 suspend or 3D acceleration (but there is no free VBIOS init for AMD GPUs, thus that's less free than using a older Nvidia card with Nouveau, that also offers full 3D accell and suspend support).

    If I was to use AMD, I would be hypocritical.
    In conversation 2 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink

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