4 reasons why NVIDIA's new FOSS drivers aren't what you think they are.

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Don't get me wrong. This is _really_ cool (and unexpected) stuff. But it took *many* attempts and years of work before AMD's FOSS drivers were accepted into the kernel. NVIDIA has a very long road ahead of them.

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00:00 - AMD & Intel are ahead of NVIDIA here.
01:15 - NVIDIA has been a notorious presence
03:23 - So they're changing their tune!
04:13 - 1 - It's not a candidate for upstream
05:57 - 2 - Many required components are NOT FOSS
06:21 - 3 - Still alpha for desktop and workstations
06:47 - 4 - Only supports Turing and Ampere cards



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