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> making the situation worse for desktop Linux users and consumers

Most desktop Linux users don't need NVIDIA even a little, because AMD's GPUs will serve them just fine. They're not doing AI.

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There’s this bubble where people who work with AI seem to assume that everyone else also wants to work with AI on their PC. It’s strange. Let NVIDIA have their CUDA and their datacenter GPUs, most of us just want to put pixels on a screen.

And a decade ago most users didn't need a GPU at all because they weren't doing 3D. I still have a laptop with a Vista compatibility card in it that was outdated on release because the push for using GPU accelerated graphic back ends didn't stop at the OS and everyone's grandparents also wanted to have a look at things like google earth and street view.

If and when everyone is running AI workloads, then all of the competition will need to have proper support for it.

Or at least we hope Nvidia wouldn't be left as the only vendor of modern GPUs in that case. That would be very unfortunate.

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