>My understanding is that Nouveau has been working on this for some time so
that may be why it works for you on that particular card.
Yes, Nouveau is great. Almost all Nvidia gpus I tried so far work beautifully
without installing proprietary firmware/drivers thanks to it. Problem is you
WILL have almost every time a significantly worse performance compared to the
proprietary driver. We have to thank the Nvidia chaps for this :/
>The card itself still has proprietary software inside of it though so you're
not entirely free of proprietary junk though.
You are referring to the proprietary firmware embedded in the chip. Isn't
this the case with ALL GPUs? (Intel old and new included)