Ask HN: Whats the story behind Linus showing middle finger to Nvidia?

2 points·mohitmun··4 comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ

> Torvalds publicly criticized the company last week during a question and answer session that followed a presentation. He called NVIDIA the “single worst company” that Linux developers have ever worked with, then pointed out that NVIDIA’s failure to work constructively with the Linux community is especially disappointing in light of the company’s large presence in the Android market.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/linus...

This was 5+ years ago; anyone from linux driver development community care to comment on situation nowadays?

My personal experience is that after some 20h invested in getting NVIDIA card running on Mint (ubuntu derivative) I just gave up. I remember trying official installer and unofficial packages, then both Optimus and Bumblebee. Each mistake in configuration would result in boot to black screen and time consuming revert to use Intel drivers. So I carry around useless piece of NVIDIA tech :/

The past couple of years that I've been using NVIDIA with Ubuntu the process was pretty much straightforward.

You can get Tensorflow and most Miners to work with just a ppa addition and apt installation.

Not sure how games and other 3D enabled apps behave though.

Sorry to be that guy, but why not just Google this?

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