[Discuss] bluetooth

[eric.chadbourne at icloud.com (Eric Chadbourne)]

> On Mar 18, 2021, at 12:16 AM, Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote:
> 
> ?On 3/11/2021 5:44 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>> I left fedora around 5 when they purposely broke proprietary video
>> drivers.  Are they more stable now?
> 
> I would characterize the situation a little differently; the distro had
> rules about mainline, and for kernel modules that couldn't be in
> mainline (I would lay the blame here on hardware manufactures rather
> than the distro) there were not great solutions.
> 
> If you're referring specifically to nvidia, I don't use my laptop with
> an nvidia card for much these days except zoom/jitsi/teams, but I've
> been very happy with the nouveau driver in the last couple fedora
> releases and just ignoring the mess of trying to keep up with nvidia's
> broken process for linux driver management (e.g. remembering which magic
> three digit number corresponded to the proper legacy driver for my
> hardware after they stopped supporting my card with new releases) and
> figuring out whether I need to use Xorg or wayland or whatever.  That
> box has a pretty old nvidia card though, YMMV.
> 
> Matt
> _

That's good to hear.

I took notes during the very informative BLU meeting.  Inspiration to catch up on RedHat's offerings.

Thanks,

Eric C