For newer GPUs from the Turing, Ampere, Ada Lovelace, or Hopper architectures, NVIDIA recommends switching to the open-source GPU kernel modules.
So 20-series onwards.
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Yes. Everything older is unsupported in terms of the new Linux stuff anymore. Planned obsolescence yk?
My ol' 1070 doesn't make the cut hey... ;-;
Maybe it's just because I'm older and more jaded, but that really feels like the last truly good era for GPUs.
Those 10 series cards had a ton of staying power, and the 480/580 were such damn good value cards.
It's more that back then was a better time for price to performance value. The 3000 and 4000 series cards were basically linear upgrades in terms of price to performance.
It's an indicator that there haven't been major innovations in the GPU space, besides perhaps the addition of the AI and Raytracing stuff, if you want to count those as upgrades.
It feels like the crypto mining goldrush really changed the way GPU manufacturers view the market.
I feel like AI has changed the game. Why sell retail when people are paying you billions to run LLMs in the cloud.
Does this mean upcoming distros can have the drivers inbuilt? NVIDIA Cards working out of the box? I'm Out of the Loop.
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.
But apparently people always had issues with NVidia graphics cards on Linux, no matter what driver it is. And the fact that even Mint and Ubuntu don't install the drivers by default tells that there indeed are some legal issues with it.
Ubuntu is also stale old software, and shouldn't be a distro anyone wanting a functional box running new hardware/software should use. Valve realized this and moved SteamOS to Arch so they would have a current stack not constantly 6+ months behind upstream, needing to backport everything to an outdated stack.
Lol, WTF are you talking about? Every bit of this is ignorant. Let me correct you so you're not running around embarrassing yourself:
- SteamOS was based on Debian. Never had anything to do with Ubuntu. The reason they switched was because it was easier to use an Arch build system to make their own base OS image immutable, but still build native modules to include as well as BSP drivers. Simple.
- Ubuntu is the most widely used base of Linux on the planet, desktop and cloud included.
- Valve writes their own modules for their drivers. This is the dumbest thing you've asserted so far in that Ubuntu somehow is responsible for drivers. Because you seem to know nothing about Linux in general, I'll just let you know the kernel handles the detection and loading of modules and drivers. Any distro on 6.8 has the same ability to detect and load drivers for any other distro running 6.8. I have no idea why you thought this had something to do with packaging in distros lolz.
- Do you know what a backport is? It seems you do not.
Anyway, your entire understanding of how everything works is wrong. You should read more.
No blobs?
Use this bro 
nvidia transitions fully? that's all i need to hear, good job nvidia 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Forgive the stupid question, but what does this mean, exactly? Does it mean Nvidia support on par with that for AMD? Will this enable a release of Bazzite that supports Steam Gaming Mode for Nvidia cards?
It means it will break less on kernel updates. I don’t think it fundamentally changes much else for gaming.