Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On 4/6/22 16:59, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> On 4/5/22 12:29, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 5 2022 at 11:56:07 AM -0400, Robbie Harwood 
>>> <rharwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Users wishing to use NVIDIA hardware have the following options:
>>>>
>>>> - Use nouveau (free, open source, cool)
>>>> - Sign their own copy of the proprietary driver (involves messing with
>>>>   certificates, so not appropriate for all users)
>>>> - Disable Secure Boot (note that this is still UEFI)
>>>>
>>>> The NVIDIA driver is proprietary, so of course it's not going to get
>>>> signed.
>>>
>>> The user experience requirement is: user searches for NVIDIA in GNOME
>>> Software and clicks Install. No further action should be
>>> necessary. We didn't make the NVIDIA driver available from the
>>> graphical installer with the intention that arcane workarounds would
>>> be required to use it.
>>
>> Bingo.  None of the three options Robbie suggested are reasonable for
>> non-technical users.
> 
> No, I don't think that's right.  It's been a bit since I've run nvidia
> hardware, but I'm pretty sure using nouveau is the default.  It's less
> powerful than the proprietary driver, but if it works out of the box,
> it's really difficult to argue with that user experience.

Nouveau does not support any graphics acceleration on Ampere, and its
performance is very poor on Maxwell and later.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)

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