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by pineapple_guy 1010 days ago
And they are simply unable to reliably release Linux drivers
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m00x 1010 days ago
Linux graphics you mean? The compute ones are fine.

It's not as much of an issue about supporting old versions, it's just that new versions of Linux breaks the drivers since they don't know what's in it.

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MenhirMike 1010 days ago
> unable

Correction: unwilling, not unable

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redox99 1010 days ago
Almost 100% of their datacenter GPUs are used on Linux. Do do think they run without drivers?
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michaelt 1010 days ago
They run with drivers, of course.

But such servers have no need to, for example, suspend and resume correctly. Or handle hot-plugging of displays correctly. Or install updates in a completely reliable manner. Or include the 32 bit support needed for Steam to work.

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alecco 1010 days ago
Or support Wayland.
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heroprotagonist 1010 days ago
That driver also costs $450 per GPU per year..

Source:

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-vi...

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