Linux Voice Introduction

Article from Issue 257/2022

This month in Linux Voice.

It would be an understatement to say that Linux and NVIDIA have had an uneasy relationship. The massive NVIDIA, famous for graphics cards and other computer hardware components, has a long history of recalcitrance when it comes to Linux compatibility. Things are a little better than they were – at least some Linux drivers exist today – but most of those drivers are proprietary, and the company doesn't invest much in showing Linux users how to work with their hardware. In this month's Linux voice, we'll help you swim through the NVIDIA driver soup using tools and resources available through Ubuntu. Also inside: You'll take your first steps with Matplotlib, an open source Python library for graphing and other data visualization tasks.