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

Their drivers are garbage to get installed and keep updated, especially when new kernels come out

Sure, but it's not the case for all Linux distributions? Whenever my Linux distribution have a new kernel it always takes care of the nvidia driver as part of installing the kernel and if there's a new nvidia driver it installs it after a few days, I never pay much attention to it except for noticing the output from the update.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

except when using newer kernels and the nvidia gpu not being updated enough