nvidia open/not
I'm new to Bazzite (and Linux) and some things have left me a bit puzzled.
What is the difference between bazzite-nvidia and bazzite-nvidia-open? The Bazzite download page does suggest the open variant for my RTX card, but I'm curious what the actual difference is.
I ran into some crashing issues with a newer game, which is why I started looking into it. Rebasing from open to not didn't fix that particular issue, I guess I should go back to open. The game also complains about the drivers being out of date; but it seems nvidia is at fault for, as of writing, their Linux drivers being almost three months behind the Windows counterpart. Yay.
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One uses the open driver which is what Nvidia now supports and is only supporting in the future
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One uses the open driver which is what Nvidia now supports and is only supporting in the future
The other uses the proprietary driver which supports only up until the 4xxx cards
There is no performance difference, the open driver should always be used on cards it supports
I see. I have a 3000 series, I guess that's why rebasing to not-open made seemingly little difference. But I'll be sure to stick to open.
Thank you for the info.