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Ah yes, Nouveau drivers. The thing that crashes immediately and prevents Linux from booting when you try to set up a fresh install on an Nvidia machine, leading to a short scramble to blacklist it with launch options until the actual drivers can be installed.

I sort of don't really know why they even bother. The only reason to have an Nvidia card is to use their CUDA toolkit, which isn't even supported by Nouveau.

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I admire the Nouveau people, lots of hard work with blocks nvidia is happy to throw in front of them. I have had no issues with Nouveau on the one system I have with an nvidia GPU.

With that said, I wish Linux would do what OpenBSD does, do not support nvidia GPUs until it is opened up. Maybe this will make nvidia smarten up.

I think plenty of people (myself among them), have used Nouveau without issues.

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