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I wanted to comment on/respond to both sibling posts to mine (by pjmlp and witty_username), but you seem quite knowledgeable so I'll ask you in reference to them:

I have run desktop Linux across a dozen (maybe slightly more) machines over a decade, and friends will ask me for advice stepping into that world. On graphics drivers, my safest recommendation has always been:

- If AMD, use the open source version.

- If Nvidia, use proprietary.

- If Intel integrated, thank whatever god you believe in for Mesa.

What about Nvidia's GPUs, community relations or [insert other topic] hobbles their open source one so thoroughly compared to AMD? Or alternatively: Why is AMD's (presumably) deeper knowledge of their graphics hardware unable to be more stable than the open source equivalent when Nvidia's is?

[Nullabillity]

> What about Nvidia's GPUs, community relations or [insert other topic] hobbles their open source one so thoroughly compared to AMD?

AMD provides public documentation for how the driver should interact with their GPUs, Nvidia does not.

Oh, and AMD employs some of the people developing the open Radeon and AMDGPU (non-pro) drivers, while AFAIK Nouveau is a pure community project.

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No idea if it's still the case, but at least Ben Skeggs and might be one more developer worked on Nouveau full time for Red Hat.