Linus Torvalds - Nvidia F*** You! #Shorts [V237]

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Cites gameoverhumans · 2023-08 · on “Linux 6.6 to Protect Against Illicit Behavior of Nvidia Proprietary Driver”

If Linus is happy to literally give NVIDIA the finger [1], then maybe he/Linux Foundation would be willing to give NVIDIA the legal spanking they deserve (IMO)? We can only dream :) [1]: [this video]

Cites candiodari · 2023-10 · on “Six Great Features with the Upcoming Linux 6.6 Kernel”

That's 100% intentional. In any case, non-GPL modules cannot be upstreamed (except with a license that is compatible with the GPL, e.g. BSD is okay), and cannot touch a lot of parts of the kernel. Also, loading a non-GPL module "taints" your kernel (this cannot be undone except through reboot) and tells everyone on the support mailinglists that you've loaded proprietary code. [LINK] And there is much hating on Nvidia, for using a "workaround". Including, famously: [this video] Also famously, this is the reason ZFS is not in the linux kernel.

Cites ho_schi · 2025-02 · on “AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards”

Buy AMD or Intel. Not Nvidia. Rationale: Both AMD and Intel provide well maintained open-source drivers for many years[1]. Nvidia doesn't. You need to use closed-source drivers with Nvidia in practice, which causes issues with kernel upgrades, various issues (for which you don't get help, because the kernel is now marked as tainted) and problems with Wayland. The later are caused by the fact, that Nvidia refused[2][3] to support Wayland for a long time. Blaming that implicit sync was a disadvantage for Nvidia is not appropriate. They could've participated a long time ago and either adapt to implicit sync or help adding explicit sync years ago. Furthermore: * AMD gave us Vulkan as standard, w

Critical gondo · 2024-12 · on “Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger”

> Nvidia and their amazing software stack and support for their hardware. Linus seems to disagree [this video]