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Thanks for sharing that, even despite the uncontrollable facepalm that resulted. What's terrible is that despite the fact that this artist is so crazy and racist, his art is actually pretty good.
I thought I recognized the art style. They over exaggerate peoples facial expressions so much, yet somehow its always one of five faces
I have had to spend so much more time thinking about drivers on Windows than on Linux it's not even funny
And what are Nvidia users supposed to do?
I have never had problems with Nvidia drivers on Linux mint detects them and ask if you want to install the official drivers
LMDE didn’t install the DKMS modules on my kid’s PC, so the nVidia drivers never loaded after a new kernel got installed. I do enough tech support at work so we chucked Pop!_OS on the PC (and set it up with btrfs and timeshift-autosnap) instead. No more problems.
May not be a problem with mainline Mint, of course, but there are weirdos like me who prefer the Debian edition.
Don't be ashamed of using Debian!
...to let the distro pick the best driver for you? That's what I do at least.
They're supposed to buy an AMD card, obviously. /s
I wish AMD had a competitive 4090 alternative
I'm starting to wonder if this is a meme or if people are actually having problems.
It depends on your distro
Use POP OS which has NVIDIA Drivers in the iso
Or Nobara which has a dedicated Nvidia install tool in its welcome screen
I install Windows, everything works, I install PopOS, everything works. So yeah, an equal amount of time.
I don't know how Linux users are using Windows but whenever I see comments like these I'm surprised they aren't using OSX or a tablet instead of a computer by now because they clearly don't know what they're doing...
The problem is maintaining the os. Installing the drivers on windows is usually fine. Maintaining them is frustrating, because of how updates has to be done, and the dirty uninstall process, and the issues.
On many Linux distro it doesn't work perfectly, but maintenance is so trivial that people become used to it. And going back to a high maintenance OS is annoying. Like going back from a modern EV to ford model T. Some people like the experience of going back in time to the mid 90s with Windows, other prefer the simplicity of maintaining a Linux OS
I dont get it, can you provide some examples please? I installed windows 10 like 2 years ago on my “new” laptop. I have installed all drivers from my external hardrive. Since then I havent done anything related to drivers ever. If I plug something in, like an external screen, controller, mouse, headphones whatever, it installs itself automatically and just works. I havent done any maintenance either, except I will dust it off every other month or so. And thats pretty much the same with every PC I ever owned. What OS maintenance am I supposed to be doing? I sometimes do registry cleanup and disk defrags, but I thinks those are just placebos :D
There no real control of what and how you installed stuff. This create long term issues. This is why you perform registry clean up. But it is not enough, because of orphaned and conflicting dlls, inconsistent installation paths, conflicting versions. You probably don't see just because you are used to the issues and you think that's how things work.
If you install a better os, everything is accurately and centrally managed, making maintenance much more easy. Problem is with closed sourced software and drivers, because they break the normal processes of installation and maintenance, creating similar issues as in windows (not as bad because the os is better engineered)...
I've never done any registry cleanup for years now, ever since I know better than to think Windows need any of that. How many years ago have you used Windows? You're like that Windows user that keeps telling people you can't game on Linux. It's old news by now.
I unfortunately have to deal with it daily at work... With a premium laptop that cost thousands, and it is extremely less performant than much smaller and older machines with linux (I use linux at work as well).
I am not saying anything controversial. It is literally the reason why windows professionally is used for accountants, but it is practically never used for tasks that require performances, reliability, stability and long term maintainability.
Most casual users live with these issues, many move to mac, few move to linux. Victims of corporate IT like me must justify the budget to avoid the standard laptop and get the overpriced piece of extremely powerful hardware to have a daily experience slightly better than a raspberry pi running on respbian. Because outlook...
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I have spent very little time worrying about drivers on either.
On windows geforce came preinstalled and I just updated it occasionally when something didn't work
On NixOS I add one line to my config file and it handles Nvidia drivers for me and updates with the rest of my packages
How do you recognize a Linux user?
You don't. They'll tell you at the first opportunity.
I am a vegan, Linux, unsexual. Thanks for asking.
You forgot that you were using arch, btw.
Maybe for now, but as soon as more people switch to Windows 11 or Microsoft apps that constantly show you ads and are basically spam / adware themselves, Linux will get more appealing.
Microsoft is unfortunately learning from social media companies. Not only do you PAY for the product, you are also the product, and get your personal info stolen and get served ads even while you pay.
It's getting to the point where I'm seriously eyeballing Mint again, or Kubuntu. And I'm the kind of person that's generally too lazy to even dual boot anymore.
Sorry for the uncalled advice, but you might want to avoid Ubuntu. Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) is being rather obnoxious pushing for a technology called "snaps" that has a bunch of issues, among them performance.
Mint is fine. In fact I'm distro-hopping from Ubuntu to Mint again.
How do you even search for drivers in Linux? I thought this was a windows only thing
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I've blocked every Linux community I can find and I still can't get away from it
You cant escape the arch btw
Tux watches you sleep
I've been using Linux for almost 20 years, and I can't remember the last time I had to stress over drivers. Of course, I always check Linux compatibility when I buy hardware.
I'm embarrassed to say I'm a SE and don't know anything about Linux. What makes it worth using over windows?
Linux by itself is just a kernel, there's a whole range of operating systems using it. Most of them have some commonalities, but there are also huge differences. Most of them can run directly from a USB stick (or in a VM obviously), so you can try some out.
Some things that basically all of them do very well, compared to windows:
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mainly open source components (+- some proprietary drivers and apps, if you want)
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no ads in the OS
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support for very old hardware, being (depending on actual OS more or less) light and resource efficient
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very good package management
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customizability
There are many things that are specific to some OSes. I switched from Windows 10 years ago, and I can't see myself going back. Everytime I have to use it somewhere, I get annoyed quickly.
There are some drawbacks:
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software has to be built against a specific kernel, and some proprietary software is not offered for linux. There are compatability layers for running windows software on linux without emulation, but they are mainly optimized for games (I've had windows-only games run faster on linux than on windows!).
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some drivers are unavailable for linux, as the device manufacturers have to cooperate somewhat. However, almost everything will work.
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some drivers are available, but require binary blobs distributed by the manufacturer. The proprierary NVidia drivers, for example, are faster than the open source reimplementation noveau, but they can cause problems with some software like sway. If you have an AMD gpu, their open source drivers are great, so no problems.
Roughly all the servers (including Microsofts own cloud), half the mobile systems, lots of the larger embedded stuff and some small percentage of deksktop systems are using Linux. Again, just try something (maybe Pop!_OS or Mint) and see if you like it.
I love Foss and Linux, but to be honest I recently switched back to Windows 10 from Ubuntu and some other distros, cuz gaming issue and some hardware issue and nvidia issue. Linux needs lots and lots of improvements.
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What on earth are you guys doing having to search the internet for drivers for Linux??? You not buy things that have Linux support advertised? Not looking for good reviews by other Linux users?
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