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465 points susanthenerd | 2 comments | 26 Aug 25 15:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bodge5000 ◴[26 Aug 25 16:12 UTC] No.45028546[source]▶
I'm glad the AMD GPU option still exists, I don't have great experience with NVIDIA on Linux. The rest of the upgrades, like the new top cover and keyboard, are very welcome
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fooker ◴[26 Aug 25 21:49 UTC] No.45032760[source]▶
FYI All current and future Nvidia drivers are open source, since blackwell.
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1. mdaniel ◴[27 Aug 25 01:46 UTC] No.45034549[source]▶
Saying "and future" is like taunting fate

Anyway, in case someone was interested it seems the code itself is cited as MIT, however it has a "when it becomes a Linux .ko it becomes GPLv2" clause https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.7... and they do go out of their way to say "lol, needs binary blobs" https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/580.7...

That XFree86.run has always struck me as "you're gonna what*?"

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2. account42 ◴[27 Aug 25 11:54 UTC] No.45038397[source]▶
To be fair, AMD's driver also needs proprietary firmware blobs. This is still infinitely better than having mistery sauce running in kernel space directly. A bigger problem is that there is no performant open source user-space counterpart like there is for AMD (Mesa with radeonsi for OpenGL and radv for Vulkan).