What if Nvidia provided good ⋆BSD drivers? According to the answers from Greg Lindahl and Eugene Miya on Quora to the question &quot;Why is the OS landscape of Supercomputers dominated by Linux instead of BSD?&quot; [1] the Linux dominance is largely an historical oddity rather than due to some inherent superiority of Linux.<p>If for some reason supercomputer builders could no longer use the best GPUs in supercomputers, would they stick with Linux or would they follow the hardware and switch to a ⋆BSD on the compute nodes?<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qr.ae&#x2F;RUortF" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;qr.ae&#x2F;RUortF</a>