Chromium blacklists Nouveau
For anyone interested, the link really should be the full bug report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=876523The current link says it as if Chrome was not being fair, but reading their reasoning it makes total sense. Key quote from said bug report:> We thought about blacklisting nouveau driver long time ago, and decided to let more adventurous users to play around. Now that Ubuntu ships with nouveau on default, maybe it's time to blacklist it in Chrome.> We received quite some bug reports on other rendering issues with Nouveau, and this bug is just one of them. So we will disable all GPU acceleration by default. If someone wants to bypass that, there are two options: 1) install proprietary NVidia drivers (see #24) 2) run Chrome with --ignore-gpu-blacklist, but be aware you are taking a risk here> Unfortunately we don't have the resources to test every variation of every GPU/driver combination on linux, let alone investigate & fix bugs in drivers.
We want a stable & secure browser first, a GPU-accelerated one second, only if possible.> The default driver on Ubuntu LTS has severe issues, asking non-technical users to update their driver is just not acceptable as a prerequisite to use Chrome.> If someone is interested in well-scoping the brokenness (version range and/or devices affected), we're happy to take a patch to the blacklist.So the driver fails in some (common enough) cases, they let it run anyway but now it's default on ubuntu so a lot of non tech users are/will be affected, so they block it but you can still bypass the block if you want. And if newer version fix it and someone can help them figure out which versions work for what, they are willing to limit the blocking.