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[–] woelkchen 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux and Nvidia don't mix well, at least not until Nvidia's official open source kernel module has been upstreamed to the Linux kernel which will take years.

Breakages, workarounds for breakages, etc. are common occurrences, especially when you want to use a modern desktop using Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Other than being completely unable to run Wayland, secure boot, and being forced to use a propietary driver what kind of things are specifically wrong with Nvidia on Linux? Maybe it's because I switched to Linux fairly recently but I haven't noticed many Nvidia specific issues yet.