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Mesa 25.1 to Replace Nouveau Driver with Zink/NVK by Default for NVIDIA GPUs

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Marius Nestor
Mar 14, 2025

Until now, the Mesa graphics stack defaulted to Nouveau as the open-source graphics driver for NVIDIA GPUs, but starting with the Mesa 25.1 series, the old OpenGL driver will be taking a backseat in favor of a combination of the Zink Gallium driver and the NVK open-source Vulkan graphics driver, both developed by Collabora.
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