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Fuck nvidia. (mujico.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Thats why i never buy their shit after having one laptop with one of their graphics.

Worst part? I'm still using that laptop, im doing troubleshooting right now.

Anyone else?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This reminds me of the nightmare of those laptops with intel and nvidia gpu so you could switch to nvidia if you wanted to game. And what a nightmare it was to even get the nvidia gpu working in linux.

When I'm buying new hardware I'll make sure never to buy nvidia again. However sometimes I am gifted things and it would be rude to refuse to accept.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As I mentioned in another comment, in my experience Nouveau does a much better job with multi-display and multi-GPU systems than Nvidia's proprietary drivers. Unfortunately Nouveau's actual hardware support is somewhat limited, so that is only relevant for a subset of Nvidia GPUs.

I, too, don't want any more Nvidia hardware.

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

Thanks for the info!

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