Desktop users should keep the champagne on ice, but data centre GPU users will have full functionality out of the gate.
It would be useful for someone to do a temperature check of Hell because after years of queries and requests, Nvidia has released on GitHub the source code for its GPU kernel modules. Long suffering Nvidia desktop users wishing to ditch the binary driver should temper their excitement though, with Turing and Ampere data centre GPUs being the first architecture deemed production-ready and supporting features such as multiple displays, G-SYNC, and RTX ray tracing in Vulkan, and OptiX. Nvidia said that desktop support was alpha quality, and users could opt in if they wanted to. The driver package released by Nvidia will have both the binary and open source driver, with the decision on which to use made during driver installation. The GPU company admitted its driver was not ready to be upstreamed into the Linux kernel, but it would work on it with Canonical, Red Hat, and Suse.
