• lemmyvore
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    7 months ago

    That’s a feature, stop buying hardware from vendors that treat GNU/Linux and *BSD users as second-class citizens and locks them into proprietary drivers.

    Nowadays I buy a new graphics card maybe twice a decade. I’m not changing the card for software.

    Also, we’re all using proprietary hardware. Be serious. If you tried to never use anything proprietary you’d never use anything. You’re using like a dozen of them right now.

    • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      Also, we’re all using proprietary hardware

      Sure, I have proprietary bits on my kernel and my AMD GPU needs proprietary firmware loaded to work, but that’s a hell lot different than the situation NVIDIA shoves users into. It’s one thing to have small proprietary components that don’t bother me or break my workflow, it’s another to have black box drivers that can bork my setup if I dare to update my packages.