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[–] gpstarman 37 points 4 months ago (34 children)

Does this mean upcoming distros can have the drivers inbuilt? NVIDIA Cards working out of the box? I'm Out of the Loop.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago (22 children)

This has never been an issue. Nothing stops any distro from installing the DKMS drivers at install time. You also have the nouveau driver that can be installed by default if you don't want to ask users to agree to Nvidia's license for proprietary driver use.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

You also have the nouveau driver that can be installed by default...

And pretty soon, NVK!

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

NVK is already usable, performancr isn't 100% of the proprietary driver but I play Overwatch on NVK at 165FPS on my RTX3070 laptop a lot, low settings but very playable. This is with an Optimus configuration (VRR Freesync panel on AMD iGPU) in GNOME Wayland.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

oh wow, I have a 3080 TI desktop GPU, I should try it with Overwatch 2 + NVK.

Also: Thanks for OpenRGB. I love it.

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