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[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It means it will break less on kernel updates. I don’t think it fundamentally changes much else for gaming.

[–] prole@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Does it mean Nvidia support on par with that for AMD?

I'm probably not the right person to answer this, but my immediate thought was no. I believe AMD allows for open source drivers on Linux, which this specifically states Nvidia won't be doing.