On Nov 28, 2021, at 05:00, Tim via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
That wasn't my point, though I do feel that way (about stingy bastard
chipset manufacturers). I'm well aware that driver creation is a lot
of guesswork. But once drivers are available, the computer should be
able to pick the right one for you.
It does! Just not the closed source ones. The nouveau driver is automatically used, and
where support is good, it just works. You’ll notice that the good AMD GPUs run out of the
box (for the most part) because their driver is part of the kernel.
Nvidia doesn’t share their closed source drivers, and often drops support for older (but
common) GPUs. There’s no legal way that Fedora can distribute the closed source drivers,
except to make a repo available to add. It’s up to the user to install and configure the
third-party driver.
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Jonathan Billings