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๐ŸชŸ Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable (gamesbymason.com)
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[โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Counter to the experiences I usually read about here, I put an Nvidia GPU into my Linux box over the weekend and it just worked immediately.

Now I have no idea if I've been reading the troubles of a vocal minority, or if I should go buy a lotto ticket this weekend. Haha.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 7 months ago

    Same boat here, just works, both on my laptop and deksktop.

    In fact most of our company runs linux on laptops with nvidia gpu..

    The biggest problem i can think of is a distro that doesn't ship the drivers in their package manager. and then it's just following the description on the nvidia website how to install them for your distro.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 7 months ago

    There's three types of NVIDIA failures on Linux:

    A- The niche thing that doesn't work for the group of people who use it.

    B- The specific card model that doesn't work.

    C- The distro that for some reason is a nightmare to install the drivers.

    Each motive individually is not a lot of people, but all together it is way much more than AMD. Hence the difference.

    Also, if you have a type A failure card, there's a probability that maybe it will be fixed eventually. But for type B, you're out of luck. There's a non-zero chance that your card will never work.

    Type C is entirely up to user error and distro effort. But it won't help with type A and B. If NVIDIA of fails you, whether you can install the drivers on your distro or not, is irrelevant.

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