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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know, the last time I tried Linux the fucking Nvidia driver fucked my system a couple times before I said fuck it and went back to 10.

Going to try again with my amd card at some point

[–] moleverine 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

AMD support is baked into the kernel, so you really don’t have to do anything unless you’re on bleeding edge hardware and the drivers are in a version of the kernel your distribution doesn’t ship yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's fantastic news! Nvidia drivers are literally the reason I've abandoned Linux easily a half dozen times.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, can't control what support Nvidia offers for their own products, but he often shows his opinion of them: