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And that's just the hardware drama. The software hate against Nvidia is partially unwarranted too - Nvidia's Wayland issues mostly boil down to GNOME's refusal to embrace EGLStreams, which got whipped up into a narrative that Nvidia was actively working to sabotage the Linux community. The reality is that desktop Linux isn't a market (I say this as an Nvidia/Linux user), and they have no obligation to cater to the <.5% of the desktop community begging for changes. Honestly, they'd get more respect for adding a kernel-mode driver to modern MacOS.

In the end, Nvidia is still a business. Putting any money towards supporting desktop Linux isn't going to have an adverse effect on their overall sales. We're just lucky that they patch in DLSS/ray tracing support to Linux games and software like Blender.

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Nvidia doesn't need to offer full linux support, only the bare minimum to make the lives of those making their job a bit easier. Also, let's not kid ourselves, Nvidia has a lot to gain in the datacenter/AI business with proper linux support. Let's also bear in mind that Linus Torvalds said this: "they are the exception, not the rule". If that doesn't speak volumes, I don't know what does.

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> Nvidia has a lot to gain in the datacenter/AI business with proper linux support

They do, which is why they support CUDA and Docker. They have nothing to gain from supporting Wayland besides appeasing a bruised-and-battered bunch of people that don't really care anyways. Nvidia seems to be admitting as much by open-sourcing their drivers and letting us play with their Legos, since we're so smart.

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Well, the open sourcing part was due to them being hacked.