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0 pointsdirewolf205mo ago0 comments

No, that's a copyright violation, and it won't run on AMD or Intel GPUs, or kernels with a different Nvidia driver version.

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amelius5mo ago· 3 in thread

But this ruins the entire idea of packaging software in a self-contained way, at least for a large class of programs.

It makes me wonder, does the OS still take its job of hardware abstraction seriously these days?

The OS does. Nvidia doesn't.

It does, and one way it does that is by dynamically loading the right driver code for your hardware.

That’s a licensing problem not a packaging problem. A DLL is a DLL - only thing that changes is whether you’re allowed redistribute it

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