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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

"nouveau" != "Nvidia open source drivers". Nouveau was community made by reverse engineering. Nvidia has released their own open source drivers now.

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

thanks, this explains my confusion, I recently lost half a weekend to this distinction !

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