Linus Torvalds - Nvidia F_ck You!
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as shorthand for the long-running frustration of the Linux community with Nvidia's drivers, often as a joke or background.
What it is
A two-minute clip of Linus Torvalds at an Aalto University talk telling Nvidia "F_ck you" over its poor Linux support. It is an excerpt of a longer talk.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2013 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Cites kleiba · 2013-10 · on “Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows”
NVidia has a history of not playing nice with Linux. Allow me to point to a small comment Linus Torvalds made on Nvidia a while ago (NSFW): [this video]
Cites squarefoot · 2016-11 · on “Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers”
Some background. [this video] Shouldn't be a problem anymore under Linux as most distros today install Nouveau drivers by default. [LINK]
Cites bostik · 2016-12 · on “AMD responds to Linux kernel maintainer's rejection of AMDGPU patch”
You're asking a question with a very complex answer. I'll start with a short answer - AMD wants to have at minimum a reasonably good baseline functionality on linux, out of the box. If that answer doesn't make much sense, please read on for the complex bits. To provide some historical context, Linus gave a VERY public, VERY brutal rant on NVIDIA and their drivers four years ago.[0] At the time, NVIDIA's closed drivers were an opaque blob which basically reimplemented the entirety of OpenGL. These collided with everything else. The open drivers (nouveau) were slow and far behind in features. The situation was bad enough that you couldn't necessarily even install a linux distro on a system wit
Cites erikb · 2017-07 · on “What happened to Steam Machines?”
What's really stopping us here? For quite some time it was graphics drivers support: [this video] Is this still the case? I hear from many people that at least on Ubuntu that's no problem anymore. Are the graphics cards still overheating? Any experience in that area? And yes, Valve could've done things better, but it's not that bad, that you couldn't do anything with at. As said, at least on Ubuntu with Steam gaming should be fine. And if we got one thing from Steam it's that more and more games are deployed for Linux as well. Really, why hasn't it lifted off now? Is it really that users are so stupid that they don't see a $0 offer is better than a $100 offer for an OS? Hard to believe.
Cites syshum · 2020-09 · on “SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B”
You are not wrong "Nvidia has been the single worst company we have ever delt with so Nvidia F_ck You!" -- Linus Torvalds [1] [1] [this video]
Cites lucideer · 2022-05 · on “Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules”
This is a good technical summary of the impact but I think misses the somewhat emotive history here. See things like this infamous clip from Torvalds[0] for more context on the community sentiment around nvidia in general. [0] [this video]