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[–] 2 points 1 day ago (3 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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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 child)

    Yeah but when you buy a gaming laptop like I didn't know anything about that, and when I moved away from I learned a lot of things. Now I have a laptop with only one gpu and which is RTX 3050 and no igpu and guess what sleep doesn't work. I haven't tried nvidia-open but I'll give it a try because a comment reminded me of that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago

    Yeah I understand. It really is Nvidia holding Linux back and still the usage is growing every year, so not bad. It would be nice if the most popular graphics card maker could make drivers that work well with Linux but even people who worked on the drivers are admitting they are hell to work with.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day 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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  • [–] 1 point 22 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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  • [–] 2 points 21 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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