Why does the folding software for Raspbery Pis contain NVidia bloatware (GPU drivers or something)?
No Raspberry Pi could run a GPU, could it?
F@H v8.4.9 for RPi contains NVidia bloatware (SOLVED)
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F@H v8.4.9 for RPi contains NVidia bloatware (SOLVED)
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Re: F@H v8.4.9 for RPi contains NVidia bloatware.
Ask our distinguished developer at GitHub 
I asked the same question for AMD systems, but I cannot repeat the answer to that
I asked the same question for AMD systems, but I cannot repeat the answer to that
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Re: F@H v8.4.9 for RPi contains NVidia bloatware
It turns out linux installed nvidia-opencl-icd during the fah-client install. That was a whooping 28 packages using 363.2MB in total.
Only do this if you DON'T have a NVidia GPU
Run to remove nvidia-opencl-icd and the other 27 packages that were automatically installed with it.
That will remove all the packages and the kernel customisations that they created.
Only do this if you DON'T have a NVidia GPU
Run
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sudo apt remove nvidia-opencl-icd --purge -y && sudo apt autoremove -yThat will remove all the packages and the kernel customisations that they created.