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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

Once you get it all setup and proud of your work, make a fucking backup image, because a single update that changes an obscure library in some forgettable package that was part of your install will break everything and you will be pulling your hair out kludging a CLI script to unfuck some other binary that was unimportant, but now has affected another thing that was crucial for a graphics card or network adapter to function.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

i dont know what you are using but the general linux experience hasn't been like this in years. and even if there is a problem now and then a bit of googling generally is all it needs. the one thing you cannot get around is malware like kernel level anticheats. that's windows only.

having a backup is good advice no matter what system you use

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't know, the last time I tried Linux the fucking Nvidia driver fucked my system a couple times before I said fuck it and went back to 10.

Going to try again with my amd card at some point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

AMD support is baked into the kernel, so you really don’t have to do anything unless you’re on bleeding edge hardware and the drivers are in a version of the kernel your distribution doesn’t ship yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's fantastic news! Nvidia drivers are literally the reason I've abandoned Linux easily a half dozen times.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, can't control what support Nvidia offers for their own products, but he often shows his opinion of them:

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