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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's because out of the box there's often issues. For example, my setup with a 3080 booted to a black screen at login. Only futzing in the command prompt via grub let me install the correct driver, and it's been fine ever since then.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    All drivers have to deal with fbdev and EFI DRM shenanigans and there's no simple solution (if you insist on hiding boot messages behind pretty graphics, or having a graphical console, which most distros do unfortunately, God forbid you should kernel and system messages for 3 seconds).

    Until the ancient fbdev stuff will finally be completely obsolete it's all about compromise. Most often the distro will have a working default, in some corner cases it will backfire. Personally I set my console to text only so I don't have to deal with any of this.

    TLDR it can happen, and not necessarily on Nvidia.

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