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Comment by nvm0n2

The NVIDIA proprietary driver is about the same size compiled as the Linux kernel, iirc.

The reason is, GPU drivers are basically complete operating systems, just for the secondary computer we call the GPU instead of the CPU.

parent nvm0n2 3 years ago

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