Over the past weekend, Fedora project leader Matthew Miller slammed NVIDIA's proprietary driver software stack in multiple tweets , saying the company should learn from Intel and AMD when it comes to open source driver support.
Matthew Miller started by expounding his views on Fedora and other Linux distributions, arguing that everyone is "building a shared, common good -- something that belongs to us all" and is actively building a "digital public good." Both Intel and AMD are supporting open source drivers and making significant contributions to upstream Linux components, but NVIDIA is an outlier. This caused Fedora/Red Hat and others to do "a lot of compatibility work" to optimize the Linux experience with NVIDIA's proprietary drivers, but it didn't work very well.
Miller said that for NVIDIA's behavior, they could do some special processing by detecting NVIDIA hardware, such as hiding NVIDIA's lack of support. This way the limited time of open source developers can be better spent researching Intel and AMD graphics cards.
He also called on NVIDIA engineers to contribute to the open-source Nouveau driver, which is pretty useless for their modern GPUs due to the lack of support for re-clocking (re-clocking) and the hurdles associated with signing firmware images. " If you work at NVIDIA and Happened to see here, maybe you can make a difference. Come on, join us! Work directly for the Nouveau driver, it only works on new hardware, let it have the best performance! "