Demi Marie Obenour <demioben...@gmail.com> writes: > On 4/6/22 16:59, Robbie Harwood wrote: >> Demi Marie Obenour <demioben...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On 4/5/22 12:29, Michael Catanzaro wrote: >>>> On Tue, Apr 5 2022 at 11:56:07 AM -0400, Robbie Harwood >>>> <rharw...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>>> Users wishing to use NVIDIA hardware have the following options: >>>>> >>>>> - Use nouveau (free, open source, cool) >>>>> - Sign their own copy of the proprietary driver (involves messing with >>>>> certificates, so not appropriate for all users) >>>>> - Disable Secure Boot (note that this is still UEFI) >>>>> >>>>> The NVIDIA driver is proprietary, so of course it's not going to get >>>>> signed. >>>> >>>> The user experience requirement is: user searches for NVIDIA in GNOME >>>> Software and clicks Install. No further action should be >>>> necessary. We didn't make the NVIDIA driver available from the >>>> graphical installer with the intention that arcane workarounds would >>>> be required to use it. >>> >>> Bingo. None of the three options Robbie suggested are reasonable for >>> non-technical users. >> >> No, I don't think that's right. It's been a bit since I've run nvidia >> hardware, but I'm pretty sure using nouveau is the default. It's less >> powerful than the proprietary driver, but if it works out of the box, >> it's really difficult to argue with that user experience. > > Nouveau does not support any graphics acceleration on Ampere, and its > performance is very poor on Maxwell and later.
That may be true, but that has nothing to do with what non-technical users are capable of doing to their systems. Be well, --Robbie
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