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AMD has much better open source drivers. nvidia gives you a binary blob... but it works better.

That's out of date, I believe. Nvidia went open source last year, though they did that by moving a lot of code from the drivers over to their firmware (in binary blob form).

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-sourc...

Those open source kernel modules are not usable in any practical sense for consumer hardware in their current state.

From the repo readme[1], "GeForce and Workstation support is still considered alpha-quality."

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

Another limitation was in the GPUs supported - only the latest generation is supported, so no support for common consumer level cards - (1050, 1080 etc).

That’s only for the kernel part, not the userspace part

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