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[–] quarterlife@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No they have CUDA. The open driver from Nvidia just means the kernel module has an open source license. They are still the same proprietary pieces of shit that you know and love from a user space perspective.