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The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns ( www.phoronix.com )

Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA's GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 'Ada Lovelace' GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties.

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I haven't had good experiences with it, but nor have I tried it for quite a while having switched to AMD.
My gut feeling is that it's going to be even tougher than it already was, assuming nvidia's continued lack of cooperation. With DLSS and other proprietary technologies becoming increasingly mandatory for nvidia card users, keeping up is going to one hell of a ride.

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I get the opinion - but it isn't always the distro owners... developers can upload their own versions to AUR if they want to. But it is a fair comment that even a keen developer is going to miss at least a few possible package formats.

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Thankfully, even with IBM playing tricks like that, there's enough linux distros around these days that killing them all feels unlikely.

Though, that said, it's certainly not a trend I want to see continue either. It does feel conflicting to be cheering on oracle though...

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Do you know if they're going to fix the "bug" where applications don't realise you're running a dark theme?

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Interesting. What version are you running?

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Same. That's surprising. Was there an extra setting you changed (instead of just selecting a dark theme in the plasma settings)?

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Entirely plausible... though I note that pacman has gone light in the recent manjaro update :(

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