ripping out nvidia …. again
I’ve been thinking about getting rid of the nvidia kernel graphics driver from my desktop at home for a while now. I hardly ever play games, I’m certainly not an eye-candy whore in the least, and the only thing I run that needs GLX is Neverwinter Nights. Even that, I only play every once in a while. So after I read about the security advisory, that nudged me in the direction of getting rid of it for good. I’ve already got a Windows box dedicated just to playing games and besides, when I’m booted up into that one, I’m already expecting to get rooted at any moment.
What I found really interesting though is this — I’ve been reading the comments on the news sites that published the story, and the comments from the readers are largely indifferent. I think that’s kind of odd, but it certainly goes along with this quote from the article:
“It seems that the majority of Linux users are perfectly willing to accept bugs in binary blob drivers from hardware vendors, so there is little incentive for NVIDIA to change their process.”
Craziness.
P.S. Aaron wrote up a better blog post than I did about the whole thing.