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installation/musl: add specific note about nvidia.
The question is asked often enough on IRC that it makes sense to document it explicitly. Suggested by feranur from #voidlinux. Since we are here, also move the text around a bit and point flatpak to our flatpak page.
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developers work to patch such software and hopefully get portability/correctness
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changes accepted into the upstream projects.
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Proprietary software rarely supports non-glibc libc implementations, although
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sometimes these applications are available as [flatpaks](https://flatpak.org/),
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which provide their own libc in the image.
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Proprietary software usually supports only glibc systems, though sometimes such
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applications are available as
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[flatpaks](../config/external-applications.md#flatpak) and can be run on a musl
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system. In particular, the [proprietary NVIDIA
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drivers](../config/graphical-session/graphics-drivers/nvidia.md#nvidia-proprietary-driver)
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do not support musl, which should be taken into account when evaluating hardware
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compatibility.
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### glibc chroot
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