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[–] cogman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does mean you are more likely to get eyeballs on your driver from other people doing graphics card driver work. That usually results in higher quality and a higher likelihood of catching issues.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Only if they know about the repo, and apparently the Nvidia employee responsible for submitting patches upstream didn't.

Maybe that's why their drivers are so bad? /s