Mesa 25.1 will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old Nouveau OpenGL driver for NVIDIA on Linux

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Mesa 25.1 will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old Nouveau OpenGL driver for NVIDIA on Linux

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Time for a bit of modernisation. With the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release, Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand announced a big change for NVIDIA GPU users. If you're not using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, that is.

Some good news for Nvidia folks! https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mesa-25-1-will-default-to-zink-nvk-instead-of-the-old-nouveau-opengl-driver-for-nvidia-on-linux/

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