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NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules (developer.nvidia.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It's not fully transitioned. Older GPUs, eg. Pascal, have to use closed source shit. Even if you have a newer and older GPU, you have to use the closed source modules. It's far from actually open source, or even AMD-level.