By on 19 Jun, 2012 at 3:30 PM
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Nvidia, F*** You

It’s not unusual to wonder onto an Nvidia forum and see a fair amount of rage regarding compatibility and service issues. It’s a known fact that Nvidia often forces you to constantly update your graphics cards, but being a sole Nvidia user I am glad to say that I’ve never experienced a problem that could not be solved. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for Linux users.

Speaking at a speech in what seems to be a university in Finland, Linux mastermind Linus Torvalds was told a story by one of the attendees about how she struggled to get her Nvidia graphics card to work with her Linux system. Apparently, Nvidia replied to her by saying that they do not provide support for Linux, and practically never will. This prompted a, well; let’s call it an entertaining response from the Linux head honcho.

After basically calling Nvidia the worst hardware company to work with, Torvalds decides to publically make his opinion of Nvidia known. To be honest, I kind of sympathize with Linux users and Linux as a whole, as not having support from one of the industry’s largest hardware manufacturers is a massive downside when considering Linux.

Then again, who in the hell would consider it in the first place?

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  • http://egamer.co.za/author/cavie Caveshen “CaViE” Rajman

    Well as Legion says: “Windows are a structural a structural weakness.”

    <3

  • http://egamer.co.za/author/cavie Caveshen “CaViE” Rajman

    Actually, on a more serious note, when you get to second year in my degree you’re almost expected to be using Linux and in third year programming it is the only way in which you may program, so if you’re doing anything involving current-gen graphics using Linux programming modules, then… well, cue South Park skiing instructor meme. 

  • kluch

    Feels good bro

  • KaFiE

     
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  • PsiCoRe

    Sorry to say it, but you need to be a little special in the head if you can’t operate a modern Linux distro… :-p The lack of Optimus support is a f*** you from Nvidia so it’s only fair to retort in kind. I have an Optimus laptop and I’m well aware of the issue and the annoyance. The linux communities haven’t had these issues with ATI.

    The choice to ignore Linux as a gaming platform is absolutely absurd. Thanks to the open source nature of the operating system you don’t have issues like memory addressing being hidden by the operating system through a stack of API’s and developers can code much more efficiently for it. The operating system as a whole isn’t a resource hog which also leaves more resources available for the game to run. Unfortunately since Linux support is an afterthought by many manufacturers it can be a pain for developers to work with due to the lack of well written proprietary drivers.

  • Trebzz

    Yeah fuck you guys

    • http://egamer.co.za/author/cavie Caveshen “CaViE” Rajman

       Trebley dear, did you know that your beloved PS3 is powered by Nvidia? <3

    • Trebzz

      Get the fuck out for real?

    • Alessandro Barbosa

      Treble, what the hell did you think it ran on :P Toast? :P

    • AG_Sonday

      PS3: powered by POTATOES!!!

    • AG_Sonday

      Fuck us or fuck them? Actually, fuck you :P

  • GJ Ram

    hahaha :-) wat a video !! and wat a feedback to Nvidia from Linux!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/nanonyous Theo Lubbe

    http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/45533

    I don’t get it? As the average guy at home I’ve had more issues getting drivers for ATI cards than I have for nVidia cards (though I last used an ATI card with any unix distro years upon years ago, so this could quite obviously have changed drastically). My most recent experience was with the Mobility X200 that for some strange reason causes the latest Ubuntu distro to crash, yet earlier versions work fine.

    So there aren’t drivers from the manufacturer for your specific distro – boo fuckin’ hoo – this is like crying when Subaru doesn’t want to provide support for installing a VW engine into one of their cars’ chassis… “we don’t support VW engines and don’t plan on supporting VW engines, and so won’t make our cars’ engine mounts compatible with them”.

    You suck it up and find an alternative that is supported.

    disclaimer: don’t know whether Subaru and VW have, like, a thing or anything like that, so I’m just pulling random names out of the air here for the sake of example