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NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024 (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So that sounds all nice, why the change from the yesteryears?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI processing is a moneymaker for them. It runs on Linux, usually, so they want to ensure they are not leapfrogged. They are not supporting Linux, they are trying to make more money. However, it happens to benefits Linux.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Also windows is getting more and more unusable for productive/commercial/government use, so if they want to keep selling to that market, they will have to make their hardware work on linux too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

becoming production capable and ready for prime-time use from Linux gamers to workstation customers and data centers.

I would bet on it being the boom in AI increasing demands for Nvidia GPUs in data centers which largely run Linux wanting better support. Bet they don't care at all about workstation users and Wayland support is a by product of making it work better with the kernel overall.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not so sure. The drivers already do a good job with CUDA. Data centers and AI certainly don't care about Wayland support.

I think this has more to do with seeing Windows 11 get worse and Linux handhelds grow. Letting AMD take share can only be allowed for so long without greater risk.