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[–] 31 points 11 months ago (7 children)
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    In a word - instability. Downgrading driver versions for Nvidia cards is not an uncommon troubleshooting step now, which is not ideal.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago

    That's binary blob drivers for you, you just try different versions and hope it gets better someday.

    One of the big advantages to open source drivers is that you can do a bisect to track some new breakage back to a specific patch. Sure, most people don't know how to do that, but there's a lot of people who can. And then the problem gets fixed for everybody.

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  • [+] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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