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Originally posted by bug77 View PostNot relevant, unless you want to contribute and/or test. Or if you think installing a piece of software has something to do with asserting a certain philosophy.
When Nvidia releases new driver and it turns out they used sharp axe to cut "extra" monitors support, to make it on par with windows, there is nothing you can do. You can rollback to old driver, but its a dead end. Over time, new kernels, Xorg, etc... would be released and your old version of driver would not work with these. So either you have to stick to ancient software forever, or you have to face unpleasant change. That's what we dislike about proprietary software. Not sure if this qualifies as phylosophy or not. IMHO its rather pragmatic approach. If opensource code faces some change I do not like, I can go and roll it back, or even patch my newer version of code to match old version behavior. So making "unpopular" or "nasty" changes happens to be hard and rather pointless thing to do. Somehow, recently some companies got idea its okay to treat customers like a shit, and nvidia is clearly one of such companies.
Then, even if you do not want to test, modern hardware and software are complicated and you can count there are going to be some bugs. Some of these are insignificant, but you can alsway encounter some pest which makes your life worse than it should be. In case of opensource driver it is rather pleasant and efficient process when you can report annoying crap and take some part in eliminating this pest (as much as your skill and knowledge permits). But in case proprietary software is just does not works. You just hit some dead end. And, uhm, replacing hardware after facing each and every bug is costly, and you'll go this way you'll end up ditching ALL hardware. So being able to report bug to adequate bug tracker and follow its fate is a really nice bonus.
The proprietary driver can emulate most things KMS does.
Basically, opensource got its own advantages, and if you do not want these, why not just GTFO and use windows? Sure, MS would pwn you. Nvidia would pwn you. You'll be unable to deal with even most annoying bugs. And if you'll read EULA you'll get idea how exactly you're being treated. But you deserve such treatment for sure. Because you're dumb enough to be "agree" with it. So it happens.
And the one that don't work are purely cosmetic, won't break your workflow.
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