> Using any GNU/Linux with the free nouveau drivers will cause a performance
drop of 50% or more.
40% of performance drop with my GTX 650, thanks. But you can get only 20% of
performance drop with some older tesla GPUs. As you can also get 90% of
performance drop with some newer GPUs like the 750. There's some variables
that you need to take into account when you want to buy a GeForce and use it
with nouveau.
Like:
* The popularity of the GPU.
* How much time has been on the market.
* What performance has giving so far with nouveau (phoronix for example run
benchmarks using nouveau from time to time.)
* Is's new and cursed by Nvidia? See
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc5ODA
On the x86 side Nvidia is horrible, AMD is horrible, Intel is horrible. And
yet they are now days pretty much all the the choice. Got an Intel?
Congratulations, enjoy your new expensive CPU cracked by the NSA "for your
safety". Got AMD? Congratulations, enjoy your new cheap CPU cracked by the
NSA, you may need another Nvidia (also cracked by the NSA "for your safety")
if you want some graphics with that AMD.
At the end, you work to buy a computer that it's crappy, unsafe, and by all
means disrespectful to the user, so then you can keep working. If you don't
get a computer then you're "outdated" and starve to death because "you are
not competitive enough". If that's not slavery I don't know what is.
So please remember, it's not nouveau's fault that everyone sells freaking bad
hardware. But nouveau is trying to fix an already crazy world by tacking
other people hardware and make and example of how things should be. Trying to
send a message to Nvidia hoping they will listen sooner or later.
