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GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support
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The solution is: stop making yourself dependent on proprietary companies. You always loose if you wait for someone else rather than taking action. If GNOME wants to improve then it's pointless for them to wait for Nvidia. Even if that means loosing some Nvidia fans
That sounds very idealistic, but not very practical. I use my computer for deep learning projects. Since AMD and Intel are way behind, I almost have to use Nvidia. How would I stop making myself dependent on Nvidia? Give up my hobby/interest in deep learning? Stop playing the games I like? Help with programming a CUDA replacement myself in the very limited free time coding that I have time and energy for? We don't live in some utopia, it's often not possible to ditch these companies even if they act like absolute cunts.
Okay, you have a specific case which makes it much harder to abandon Nvidia (although I believe there are always better solutions if one keeps looking).
I made the case that generally speaking, GNOME can't wait for Nvidia. Most people being negatively affected by this should should just switch away from Nvidia, but we can't let them slow us down.