> On Mar 18, 2021, at 12:16 AM, Matthew Gillen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/11/2021 5:44 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: >> I left fedora around 5 when they purposely broke proprietary video >> drivers. Are they more stable now? > > I would characterize the situation a little differently; the distro had > rules about mainline, and for kernel modules that couldn't be in > mainline (I would lay the blame here on hardware manufactures rather > than the distro) there were not great solutions. > > If you're referring specifically to nvidia, I don't use my laptop with > an nvidia card for much these days except zoom/jitsi/teams, but I've > been very happy with the nouveau driver in the last couple fedora > releases and just ignoring the mess of trying to keep up with nvidia's > broken process for linux driver management (e.g. remembering which magic > three digit number corresponded to the proper legacy driver for my > hardware after they stopped supporting my card with new releases) and > figuring out whether I need to use Xorg or wayland or whatever. That > box has a pretty old nvidia card though, YMMV. > > Matt > _
That's good to hear. I took notes during the very informative BLU meeting. Inspiration to catch up on RedHat's offerings. Thanks, Eric C _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
