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by pipio21 3157 days ago
Well, it depends on how long ago it was.

When I went to engineering school I used Nvidia with linux and worked flawlessly. It was the best vendor by far, because they needed to support Linux for Pixar and other guys.

Now it is the other way around, basically because of Nvidia success. They have a monopoly on practice and could do whatever they want.

They only care about Windows. We have Vulkan, Metal, OpenGL and DirectX backends for our software. We only debug in DirectX with Nvidia because it is the only thing they support well.

If we could get rid of Nvidia for most of what we do, like Apple did, we will without a doubt.