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Yes Nvidia is still a shitty company like every other. But their open source drivers run pretty well by now.
Assuming you're talking about Nouveau, it's pretty hit or miss depending on what card you have. My previous laptop had an MX330 and it couldn't do hardware acceleration stuff and 120Hz via HDMI, not to mention screen sharing on Wayland was wonky.
Oh, and it's worth to mention that "their" open source driver had nothing to do with Nvidia themselves; they absolute do not care, as opposed to AMD.
I'm not talking about Nouveau. I'm talking about the Open Source drivers from Nvidia. They released them a while ago and they've gotten pretty good lately.
The driver you're likely referring to is NVK, which is also not developed by Nvidia, check out the annoucement post by Collabora, it says:
And also
So they're developing a driver based off headers made available by Nvidia and some of the reverse engineered code from regular Nouveau. In fact, it seems to be a branch of Nouveau as it stands:
So the "OSS drivers from Nvidia" aren't what makes it work, it's the whole community effort to build NVK from scratch.
Regardless, it only supports the most recent cards using Turing architecture. From mesa3d docs:
And still I'm not taking about nvk nor am I taking about nouveau. I'm taking about the open source drivers from nvidia. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
The kernel driver isn't all you need, you still have to pair it to their closed-source drivers or Nouveau/NVK, which are the device drivers