Free and non-free drivers

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I always wondered if it is normal I have repositories for the free and non-free drivers:

RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free                                                                            48 kB/s | 164 kB     00:03    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Free - Updates                                                                 105 kB/s |  74 kB     00:00    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree                                                                         16 kB/s |  69 kB     00:04    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver                                                        4.9 kB/s | 4.9 kB     00:00    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - Steam                                                                 27  B/s | 1.5 kB     00:54    
RPM Fusion for Fedora 40 - Nonfree - Updates                                                               17 kB/s |  26 kB     00:01

When I first installed Fedora, I did some removing too much and then reinstalling stuff, maybe I put back too may things?

EDIT:
I have a Framework 13, I don’t have a Nvidia graphics card I think!

16 × 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1340P
Mesa Intel® Graphics
Laptop (13th Gen Intel Core)

$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 04)

$ sudo lshw -C video
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics]
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 04
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: iomemory:600-5ff iomemory:400-3ff irq:155 memory:605c000000-605cffffff memory:4000000000-400fffffff ioport:3000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff memory:4010000000-4016ffffff memory:4020000000-40ffffffff
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Added repo and removed nvidia

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That is perfectly normal and happens when you install the repos.
The ‘Steam’ and ‘Nvidia Driver’ repos appear when you select to enable the 3rd party repos during the first boot setup process.
The others appear when you install them using the instructions at Configuration - RPM Fusion

Those repos are not exclusively for use with the nvidia drivers, though most seem to use them for that purpose. They also have software for multimedia and other purposes.

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Added rpmfusion