Nvidia have an open-source driver now too, but only for 20 series cards and newer, so I can’t use it with my 1080. We’ll see if that improves the drivers significantly.
The way they open-sourced it is by moving a lot of stuff that used to be in the driver into the closed-source firmware. AMD does the same thing though.
It’s because AMD went open source with it
Nvidia have an open-source driver now too, but only for 20 series cards and newer, so I can’t use it with my 1080. We’ll see if that improves the drivers significantly.
The way they open-sourced it is by moving a lot of stuff that used to be in the driver into the closed-source firmware. AMD does the same thing though.