Nationalism is stupid, and every time it is utilized it is to tug at your tribalistic instinct and fool you into supporting something.
Indeed. The problem is that nationalism is all that the mediocre have: I may be good for nothing, but at least I belong to a great tribe. Nationalism and mediocrity go hand in hand.
Are you suggesting that everyone should work extra hard, entirely on their own, to get some closed source crap working because you like Nvidia?
More likely because the support provided by the open source nouveau driver is so bad for so many Nvidia devices as to be practically useless, and also the fact that many systems out there ship with Nvidia hardware.
Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem. -- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"