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Nvidia is singled out for hatred on desktop, because everybody else has cleaned up their act quite a bit. ARM is practically irrelevant on desktop, so the fact that ARM only has closed-source options is just not that big of a deal.

ARM is very relevant on mobile, and on that front so much is closed that basically everything deserves plenty of hate. The GPU is not a frontier there.

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nVidia is collaborating on their embedded Tegra driver. Rather, they are driving its open source development. nouveau is a viable option on the desktop GPUs, if not a performant one due to the lack of re-clocking, at least it works. LIMA, Panfrost, Etnaviv, freedreno, V3D... The last bastion is powerVR, but I am afraid that this might never happen.

https://web.archive.org/web/20181112100406/https://libv.live...

This article is describing Arm collaborating on development of open source drivers for its graphics architecture - none of the other mobile GPU architecture developers are doing that so I think Arm deserves some credit for that.

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