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Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> skribis:
> I do have a problem with someone saying 'it's time for everyone to
> give up nvidia-drivers' without demonstrating they know the full
> impact of what they are suggesting. Had Cheng Renquan suggest 'Maybe
> people who don't need anything other than basic X capabilities should
> consider running nouveau' I wouldn't have even chimed in.

Sage Notebook (sage-on-gentoo overlay) can use CUDA as well. I think
you don't have to worry that nvidia-drivers would go away; in the
worst case it would end up in a good overlay. That's unlikely IMO, and
would mostly likely be if there were an established alternative
implementation of CUDA.