• WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Or maybe the one that I had to reinstall every other month because it kept failing to boot (probably because I broke something because I had no clue what I was doing and trying to get stuff working).

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      7 months ago

      Or maybe the one that I had to learn how rollback graphics drivers because I bought wrong brand of graphics card.

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        This doesn’t make any sense. Drivers only get loaded if a device matching the correct device ID is plugged in. So a wrong driver won’t, can’t, load. So why would you need to rollback?

        If you don’t have the correct drivers, it’ll still work, just poorly. And from there you can get the correct ones.

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          Maybe wrong terminology? Or hopefully not an issue.

          Nvida released a new driver. The driver crashed my Linux every time put on load. Had to uninstall with command line. Install old instead.

          With the replays on how that common with Linux and how I should brought amd. I assumed was Common frustration with new nvidia.

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            Oh. Nvidia. Right.

            I admit Nvidia software is horrible, mainly because it’s proprietary and refuses to be nicely integrated. I’m not surprised they broke it. If only they’d at least release full documentation and then we could write good drivers for them.

            The nouveau drivers don’t break, and are free as in freedom, but they don’t support “reclocking” for any of the RTX cards, so they’re stuck running at a lower speed. I think the 10-series got support though so they should run fine under it.

            AMD support is a lot better than proprietary Nvidia, but it has it’s own freedom pitfalls (functionally, it’s fine on most distros).

            Nvidia drivers are definitely an outlier in GNU+Linux, most drivers are free and so they integrate very nicely with the rest of the system and don’t randomly break.