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Fuck nvidia.

Thats why i never buy their shit after having one laptop with one of their graphics.

Worst part? I'm still using that laptop, im doing troubleshooting right now.

Anyone else?

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  • first thing i faced while distrohopping before i settle with fedora, is the instability of nvidia on linux.

    it was short path to decision to spare myself of waiting for driver fixes, googling for driver statuses, waiting, posting questions, messing around, switching this and that in hope for better stability, getting frustrated in the end because wherever i search for fixes, there were posts about same problems with same subject: nvidia.

    stable system throughout distro/kernel/driver/system updates is hugely more valuable than having GTX Ti 90000 inside my system and it was a very short bye bye.

    since i ditched nvidia card and went for amd one, my system just works, it's been years, I've never looked back and very honestly, i couldn't care less about never ending stubborn struggle with nvidia.

    • Same, I'm still using my powerful rx 490 in desktop and not even once has gave me problems.

      I bought this laptop back when I was still using windows, a really good Asus x450LN, wich still allows me to play battlebit, xcom, openxcom, sunless sea/sky, and so on. Not even talkin about office work. So yeah, I'm gonna change it in maybe 2 or 3 years.

      For now ? Dealing with nvidia shenanigans. I have a GUI again wich is good, but steam is fricking dead, so yeah, hopefully I'm not gonna need to reinstall.

  • Sauce?

    • Linux mint forum, and my own laptop with plasma.

      Steam still dead, and the nvidia config got fuck up, gonna try reset xorg and then launch nvidia settings later

      • is there any possibility to lock the nvidia version to make this not happenning instead of having problem with every update each time?

  • I use Linux at home but as an IT technician have experience with Nvidia in the Windows world. And it was pretty terrible there too.

    You have to create an Nvidia account just to get the latest driver (🤦‍♀️) and despite its supposed prowess Photoshop struggled. Solidworks (CAD Software) also had issues with Nvidia and would only work with specific driver versions.

    Overall a real pain.

    I would only recommend AMD especially on Linux as they say least provide open source drivers. Plus their CPU's are actually very good. I've seen some ancient pcs running Windows 10 on AMD CPU's.

  • This is why I haven't switched to Linux yet. I have a gaming laptop and a desktop pc is not an option at the moment.

    • It has been pretty stable, this is the only issue I have got since last year, but yeah I can understand ur reasons.

      Just buy/use AMD and get rid of problems, in pc I'm still using my rx490 and never got any problem since I bought it.

    • If your laptop is on Nvidia then it might be a problem, just stay away from that brand going forward, and from online games with bad anticheats, and you're golden to go full Linux.

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