Have any brave souls out there been daily driving the open Nvidia driver on their gaming rigs?
These drivers are listed as "alpha quality", and they're not technically the full open driver, but how are they compared to Nouveau or the usual closed driver? How's the stability and performance?
I don't know anything about these myself really, but Greg Kroah-Hartman did an interview a few months ago where he was asked about the then recent nvidia open source effort and he commented that they are still nvidia, that the drivers are only for AI toolchains and that they were not some shift in nvidia's marketing stratagy, the effort is being forced upon them by large commercial customers. He expects no change in their nonchalant abuse of consumers, and that he avoids such companies.
Shitvidia will always be shitvidia with a number one rating from Torvalds and the majority of the Linux community. Proprietary hardware is theft of ownership and criminal exploitation.
I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I've been using this package: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia-open/
I haven't had any issues so far (Steam running Jedi Survivor & The Last of Us)
I've used that package as well for a while. And depending on ones needs it is perfectly usable even for gaming. In this regard noticing a difference to the closed variant is difficult. And they've recently added G-Sync support.
The only reason I switched back is that at the time sleep/suspend support wasn't implemented yet. I think it still isn't, is it? Granted waking successfully from sleep to a functioning graphical desktop is hit or miss for me even with the closed driver variant.