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this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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Just wait until driver support is ended by nvidia. I have two P40 which are powerful and work well but nvidia just ended support (for compute) but I think the point still stands. Maybe it will be better with the new oss drivers
Isn't there a useable open source driver these days?
Noveau drivers are useful in a "render my desktop on my privacy-centric distro" kind of way, not in the "I'd like to play games released after the 2000s and actually do serious modelling work" kind of way. At least for now.
I think NVK is the default implimentation these days
I haven't paid much attention on the matter, but how are the official open source drivers for the 2000 series and newer?
Functional. NVIDIA didn't truly "open source" their drivers to anywhere near the same degree as AMD (AFAIK they didn't give much for the community to work with), so you're forced to use the proprietary ones in most cases. That might change over time, though.
Unfortunately Linux open source driver for Nvidia is extremely underdeveloped. If you want Linux machine with super long term support, go either with AMD or Intel
Perhaps that will change as a result of NVIDIA's shift. Then again, optimism has yet to pay off in my lifetime.
Just use the last supported driver then
Well that works until all frameworks like pytorch and co drop support for the compute level because the cuda libs drop them. Good luck compiling everything from source yourself.
I use Linux for fun
Amen