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Only sort of, quoting this article

much of the important graphics code isn't actually open-source. Nvidia appears to have moved much of its proprietary code into the firmware on its graphics cards, which the open-source code interacts with.

So while they did 'open source' their drivers, theyre also not accepting contributions that aren't in house. The codebase is too locked down to benefit other projects like NVK, as a true FOSS project would be.

Bit of misinformation on this thread, but generally the only thing that can actually get in the way of someone dedicated enough will be compatibility and security systems.

You probably won't have any luck getting nvidia drivers on android for example, nor take the time to back port those drivers to an outdated kernel.

I suppose you could also have an OS that takes most your system resources for non-gaming tasks, making games unplayable. Something like nixos is non-gaming centric and could reasonably be more optimised than bazzite, less background processes making games actually run better on it.

That being said if youre looking for performance, the last thing you'd want is open source nvidia drivers; theyre built entirely off reverse engineering, which takes time. This allows for large performance gains like those of late.

The proprietary stack hasn't had much change in performance over the last couple updates, a couple have even result in a performance regression to push new features. As of the latest preview driver (565.77) the minimum kernel supported goes back to the 4.15 Linux kernel release. This technically means you'd be able to run the latest nvidia drivers on anything newer than Debian 10 buster, which went out of support in September 2022.

Sounds like you might have gotten some of your info sources crossed - but thats exactly why distros like Bazzite exist, you dont have to worry about any of this background compatibility bs.

Theres a difference between stable and outdated. Generally bleeding edge will introduce many more vulnerabilities than will go unnoticed in stable.

Debian is known (almost exclusively) for only updating their repo when they're certain it is safe, but also rapidly pushing security patches; its a server oriented distro where security is paramount.

Can't speak for any other distro but android's winulator (under the hood wine and box64/86) runs pretty well

And even then you could make Ubuntu the most privacy focused, secure distro ever with a little work - just as you could rip tails open and allow access to the world.

So yeah if they were regulated as the other commenter said, they'd essentially becomd illegal to use cause what system is 100% secufe

Kinda think this would be entirely dependent on the imaginary regulations, so comments like this are essentially nonsense.

Just look at the bastardisation of current regulated terms

I'm curious what type of workflow you have to utilise mainly the sane data consistently, I'm probably biased because I like to try software out - but I can't imagine (outside office use) a loop that would remain this closed

Currently have 2 1tb NVME's over around 6 tb of HDDs, works really nice to keep a personal steam cache on the HDD's in case I pick up an old game with friends, or want to play a large game but only use part of it (ie cod zombies).

Also is super helpful for shared filesystem's (syncthing or NFS), as its able to support peripheral computers a lot more dynamically then I'd ever care to personally configure. (If thats unclear, I use it for a jellyfin server, crafty instance, some coding projects - things that see heavy use in bursts, but tend to have an attention lifespan).

Using bcachefs with backups myself, and after a couple months my biggest worry is the kernel drama more than the fs itself

Probably should have elaborated more in the original comment, but essentially I'm not a professional so the freedom of creating custom UI + having some standard variable structures like 2d and 3d transformations are worth it.

It also has a python-eqsue language, good build in ide, documentation, generic GPU access, and most importantly personally is extremely cross platform.

Mostly visualisations though, with rust doing the actual legwork

Mostly for visualisations, but having a standardised reference for 2d and 3d transforms has come in handy too.

Admittedly, visuals aside, rust does most of the mathematical heavy lifting

Edit to note I'm not employed in data science, so I have a lot more wiggle room for things to go wrong

Ive had surprising luck with Godot for basic things, complimenting it with rust or opengl for higher performance