Atemu to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months agoFormer Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driverwww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down12cross-posted to: news@lemmy.linuxuserspace.shownvidia@lemmy.worldlinux_gaming@lemmy.mllinux@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareOnno (VK6FLAB)linkfedilinkEnglish30•8 months agoThe solution is simple. Fork the code and maintain your own fork. … or … You could say thank you and enjoy the fact that a person is being paid to write and maintain open source software. If it all goes to shit, you can still fork the code.
minus-square@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish6•8 months agoThat really depends on if NVIDIA pulls some nonsense and makes the driver somehow worse. I’m hopeful, just a bit skeptical due to the decisions they’ve made in the past.
minus-squareRustmilianlinkfedilinkEnglish6•8 months ago …and makes the driver somehow worse. Just revert the commit history.
minus-square@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish0•8 months agoYeah, I’ll get right on that and resolve conflicts and maintain my own driver… I honestly just gave up on NVIDIA and bought AMD. If this ends up working out well, I’ll consider NVIDIA the next time I need a GPU, but the GBM nonsense drove me away.
The solution is simple.
Fork the code and maintain your own fork.
… or …
You could say thank you and enjoy the fact that a person is being paid to write and maintain open source software.
If it all goes to shit, you can still fork the code.
That really depends on if NVIDIA pulls some nonsense and makes the driver somehow worse.
I’m hopeful, just a bit skeptical due to the decisions they’ve made in the past.
Just revert the commit history.
Yeah, I’ll get right on that and resolve conflicts and maintain my own driver…
I honestly just gave up on NVIDIA and bought AMD. If this ends up working out well, I’ll consider NVIDIA the next time I need a GPU, but the GBM nonsense drove me away.
Are you sure you replied to the correct comment?