[slizard]

Your story sounds very familiar. Add to that list the regular regressions in new driver release that require rollback, but the binary blob drivers sometimes forget to clean up properly and you can end up in a library mixup hell... no fun.

On the other hand, in terms of robustness and reliability on the compute side of things, the NVIDIA drivers are decent. I've only experienced 1-2 hard kernel crashes the last year -- which used to be an at least weekly event 5+ years ago.

I still wish they'd split their driver and contributed upstream parts of it if for nothing else, to make compatibility layers and shims more robust, but knowing NVIDIA I doubt that's on their roadmap for the coming century. :)

[steve_musk]

> I doubt that's on their roadmap for the coming century

I'd bet on seeing open source drivers in the kernel at least within the next 5 years, probably sooner