Hi, On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:09 AM, Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 16 July 2018, Alex sent: >> I believe the open source support for NVIDIA is better than for AMD >> these days, correct? > > I don't know about AMD, but there is no real open-source driver from > NVIDIA, just some reverse engineered thing (Nouveau). Yes, they've > made an open-source driver, but they don't have the information needed > from the manufacturers to do create a completely functional driver. Yes, thanks, that's what I remember as well. I'm considering the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING 6GB GDDR5. Any thoughts or recommendations for/against this board? I don't think I'll be using it for games, but will probably be doing some photo editing in the Windows VM. There used to be a Hardware-Compatibility-HOWTO many years ago :-) Thanks, Alex > > NVIDIA provide a closed-source driver for Linux. But if you get it > from NVIDIA, it's great at stuffing your operating system installation > up, by stomping all over other things it has no business touching. > > There's a reasonably well packaged installer for it, that you do NOT > get directly from NVIDIA, you get them from a repo such as RPM Fusion > (there may be other repos, too, but I can't recall at the moment). It > installs NVIDIA's closed-source drivers, but in a sane manner. > > https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp > Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 > > Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. > There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see > the messages posted to the mailing list. > > Damn, I didn't mean to press *that* button! > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/L3UBE4VY7NOTHJENROSQY466NIOU4UXH/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/3XQKDZRSXECV3XEKCRJ6RADZAJRPIRIF/
