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Default the most effective non-linux system for 3D?

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i was wondering, eg to use blender3D or general 3D software, without windows, macos, linux nor freebsd, what would be the best system, unix-type, to do run some 3D application?

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Sadly you may need to use the Nvidia driver. If that is the case, FreeBSD may be the only option.
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@hd77 "blender3D or general 3D software,"

Can you be more specific as to whether you're interested in creating Animations or CAD drawings? The next question is whether you want Open Source applications or Closed source proprietary applications? Finally, In the world of CAD, there are web based applications, eg Fusion360, Solidworks web option or applications that process on your local system; FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, LibreCAD, QCAD ...

I'd also like to push back a little bit on Nvidia. AMD graphics are capable particularly if you want an Open Source OS.

I setup a dual boot system running ArchLinux for CAD and OpenBSD as the primary web interface. Just had an ArchLinux update to FreeCAD and its computational tool OpenCascade this morning.
Someone is looking at porting FreeCAD in OpenBSD and it is already ported in FreeBSD and most linux distributions.

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For your purposes, it's going to be difficult to avoid Windows, macOS, Linux or FreeBSD. As you've said "unix-type", then it's likely that Linux is going to suit your requirements best, as the support for newer hardware is there.

(In case it's an issue - there really is no "open source" hardware 3D acceleration. Both AMD and Intel depend on proprietary firmware - and of course the hardware is proprietary anyway. Nvidia uses a completely proprietary driver, but do provide a working and well supported FreeBSD and Linux driver at least. But if your aim is to avoid running a closed source kernel module, then you should avoid Nvidia products.)
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There is now an open source NVIDIA kernel driver for Linux: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

But this requires non-free firmware and userspace drivers.

+1 for AMD though, OpenBSD uses the Linux DRM stack so supports relatively recent hardware from that manufacturer (Linux v6.1.55 with OpenBSD 7.4).
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