I never planned to mine cryptocurrency but such a move sends a very bad message to me as an end user.
Fine, NVIDIA. I planned to have a dedicated Win10 gaming PC with an RTX 3090 and a separate Linux workstation but I guess it's better if I just get the Threadripper Pro workstation and equip it with an AMD 6900XT and do both my work and gaming under Linux. Will spend 40-50% less money, too.
And Steam is getting better and better at gaming under Linux with each passing week so the Linux users automatically get in a better position with time.
If that's how you want to play, good luck to you, NVIDIA. You just lost a future customer.
Why would them diminishing a certain aspect that you admittedly never planned on using in the first place affect your decision? Does your work involve computing millions of hashes, but isn't cryptocurrency?
No, my work doesn't involve that at all. It just sends the signal to me as a customer that they can limit what I do with something that I bought and is supposedly now mine. It's a slippery slope kind of situation where you don't know what else they might figure they'll want to limit in the future.
I am not okay with that so I'll vote with my wallet.
Nvidia never applied those mining limitations rectoactivelyl they only announced for newer cards. Still they crippled VFIO capabilities with driver updates in past so they had bad track of record years ago.
Yep, that's what worries me. They are cautious for now but if they don't meet pushback (or a financial hit) they might get bolder and start applying more and more restrictions.
This is likely too paranoid for many but the technical possibility is there and believing in the good heart of a huge business is to me not a sound strategy.
Fine, NVIDIA. I planned to have a dedicated Win10 gaming PC with an RTX 3090 and a separate Linux workstation but I guess it's better if I just get the Threadripper Pro workstation and equip it with an AMD 6900XT and do both my work and gaming under Linux. Will spend 40-50% less money, too.
And Steam is getting better and better at gaming under Linux with each passing week so the Linux users automatically get in a better position with time.
If that's how you want to play, good luck to you, NVIDIA. You just lost a future customer.