<story><title>A Nouveau graphics driver update</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/953144/b85b695d0c760692/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fny</author><text>I still don’t understand why it’s so damn hard to use a NVIDIA GPU on Linux vs Windows. The NVIDIA drivers are closed source for both. Once deep learning took off, I expected things to change, but  the other day I tried to install drivers for a new card and my Bluetooth and WiFi stopped working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bayindirh</author><text>NVIDIA’s main target on Linux is data center cards (Teslas). Desktop is just happen to be supported for the hobbyist market.&lt;p&gt;This was not like that before their Tesla series took off with such momentum.Currently, X11 and display support is provided at the barely minimum level which doesn’t piss off the people.&lt;p&gt;I think some parts of their drivers do some black magic, because if that was not the case, there should not be a tug of war about the technical details for providing Wayland support.&lt;p&gt;Monitor power management and related display parts of the driver break constantly, but not the CUDA parts, because it’s the money making part.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Nouveau graphics driver update</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/953144/b85b695d0c760692/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fny</author><text>I still don’t understand why it’s so damn hard to use a NVIDIA GPU on Linux vs Windows. The NVIDIA drivers are closed source for both. Once deep learning took off, I expected things to change, but  the other day I tried to install drivers for a new card and my Bluetooth and WiFi stopped working.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>The driver API in the windows kernel changes about once a decade. And they&amp;#x27;re not actively hostile to loading closed source drivers.</text></comment>