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[–] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Assuming the graphics drivers baked into the installer work in the first go - ask me how my weekend went.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    This is why I swapped my RTX 4070 with my brother for his 7700 XT. He offered me some money on top of it. I told him happy birthday because it matters more to me that it just fucking works instead of requiring a blood sacrifice every six weeks to not boot into a void.

    Or, as Linus put it, fuck you NVIDIA.

    Edit: No problems at all since I swapped the 7700 into my machine, by the way. Getting GPU drivers on my brother's Win 11 machine was a whole task by itself. Even on Windows, getting NVIDIA drivers to work isn't a painless experience.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I know right. I had a right game reinstalling Win 10 on a lenovo netbook - I had to put a supported, unmanaged version on it for installing lenovo dock firmware updates. For some reason, the default graphics mode was totally corrupted - almost unreadable, and rotated 90 degrees. Once the installer had finished, I had to manually install the right driver for the graphics hardware, and that fixed it. Took hours - total amateurs. For shits and giggles, after I'd finished with with the firmware updates, I installed Mint on it - and it was flawless, and done in half an hour. This is the way to do it!

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