short version: everybody got together and agreed on some standards, nvidia refused to show up, said fuck that, made their own shitty standard that would’ve caused a massive duplication of everyones effort, all so that they could keep their driver proprietary more easily, and they only recently gave up on this.
https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
short version: everybody got together and agreed on some standards, nvidia refused to show up, said fuck that, made their own shitty standard that would’ve caused a massive duplication of everyones effort, all so that they could keep their driver proprietary more easily, and they only recently gave up on this.
There’s a ton of other shit like this.
https://invidious.asir.dev/watch?v=Q4SWxWIOVBM
Welp, thats pushed me to go pure amd