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[โ€“] 10 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

Don't get me wrong but installing Linux is easy but when new people try it, they run into hardware issue, and I know its no one's fault but new users spend a lot more time to troubleshoot those issue.

But also since people are switching to Linux, I think hardware manufacturers will support Linux so most of the things will be just plug and play.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    This feels like a 10 year old comment almost. Hardware issues with Linux must be super rare now except for Nvidia, which is because Nvidia has closed drivers and doesn't care about Linux.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Except even this is no longer an issue. There's nvidia-open driver, and, at least to my knowledge, it works without any problems.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Tell that to every one of my installs.

    Literally every time I try a distro, I have to hope the NVIDIA drivers download and actually work. Then I have to hope the distro actually switches between it and the integrated GPU.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 13 hours ago

    uhm... you don't have to hope..? You can literally check which driver is installed. You can even install preferable driver version via your package manager and delete mesa drivers if you don't want your system to ever use the integrated gpu.

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