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by dikei 2509 days ago
Linus Torvalds's kernel developer point of view might be very different from the majority of users'. For the end users, they just need to install Nvidia's proprietary drivers and everything just works.

For a long time, Nvidia was the best option for 3D graphics on Linux. ATI/AMD had terrible drivers (fglrx/Catalyst), Intel had abysmal performance.
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Xelbair 2509 days ago
>For the end users, they just need to install Nvidia's proprietary drivers and everything just works.

And that's the crux of the issue. proprietary drivers.

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pjmlp 2509 days ago
Hollywood and other 3D heavy creation studios are pretty fine with it.
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orbifold 2509 days ago
The proprietary drivers are pretty nice and performant and have been for a long time. The same can’t be said about Intel (they don’t produce comparable hardware) or AMD (until recently their drivers were garbage, at the moment their best graphics card is worse than the best NVIDIA one)
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