• uzay
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    1 year ago

    I have had to spend so much more time thinking about drivers on Windows than on Linux it’s not even funny

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        1 year ago

        I have never had problems with Nvidia drivers on Linux mint detects them and ask if you want to install the official drivers

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          LMDE didn’t install the DKMS modules on my kid’s PC, so the nVidia drivers never loaded after a new kernel got installed. I do enough tech support at work so we chucked Pop!_OS on the PC (and set it up with btrfs and timeshift-autosnap) instead. No more problems.

          May not be a problem with mainline Mint, of course, but there are weirdos like me who prefer the Debian edition.

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          Or Nobara which has a dedicated Nvidia install tool in its welcome screen

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          Unfortunately it has weird issues with my bog standard Intel HP Omen laptop and a 2060 GPU.

          Basically any kind of sleep mode kills the GPU. I have go into Display settings and force a re-detect to wake it. Kind of a pain when you use the laptop connected to an external monitor with the lid closed.

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        I’m starting to wonder if this is a meme or if people are actually having problems.

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          1 year ago

          Less about problems and more about performance/features in games. How much of a hassle is it to get dlss, ray tracing etc running? How’s the performance impact from not properly supported drivers.

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      I have spent very little time worrying about drivers on either.

      On windows geforce came preinstalled and I just updated it occasionally when something didn’t work

      On NixOS I add one line to my config file and it handles Nvidia drivers for me and updates with the rest of my packages