• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Fucking with display drivers to get your shit to boot is several magnitudes harder than ignoring an ad.

    Found the Nvidia user.

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      6 months ago

      Nah, the last time this user tried Linux was probably 2005. You can get to a desktop and install proprietary drivers from the app store relatively painlessly on most distros.

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        Nope, last Christmas I struggled to get Linux Mint to play a Steam game using Proton. Booting would lead to a crash, adding some flags would lead to the game being incredibly laggy. Mint had an option for proprietary drivers, but the game would crash regardless of the flags. In the end, turns out Mint was downloading the wrong drivers, and I had to manually download the correct ones from Nvidia’a website to finally get the game to work with average performance.

        It took multiple hours of troubleshooting during my one Christmas vacation of the year. Meanwhile my brother, who had an identical laptop playing the same game on Windows, ran it flawlessly with great performance.

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          I’m sorry to hear that, dual graphics can be a pain. If you feel like trying it again I’d love to recommend pop os, it should handle dual graphics out of the box. It’s just something that isn’t well supported thanks to Nvidia’s proprietary graphics.

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        It is interesting how many people reports that distros does not work out-of-the-box. While for me, most things work. It’s hard to partition things correctly but that’s that…

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        Commits to tf, open tofu, CNCF, Apache. You’ve used my code today in all probabilty. You ain’t got shit for an answer to the constant support questions for Linux desktop so you back to baseless claims.l on my resume.

        Now, send me the copy pasta with do you know who I am as if you weren’t the one making up crap for karma points.

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          What ever makes you feel like the bigger man. The most annoying thing I run into are distros not supporting proprietary codecs and formats out of the box.

          If that’s where we’re at right now I’m pretty happy with the state of Linux, especially since it’s only a couple of distros that intentionally do that.

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            What ever makes you feel like the bigger man.

            But that person claims to have contributed some code to server software, so he’s clearly super qualified to comment about 2005 desktop stuff!!11!1

            The most annoying thing I run into are distros not supporting proprietary codecs and formats out of the box.

            It’s not like Windows supports all the codecs out of the box either. Downloading something like VLC (or insert your competing favorite playback thingie here) is pretty much required when dealing with offline media files.

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              Your post is confusing friend. Also if you can figure out how to get heic image formats working on fedora I’d love to know. I fixed it by SSHDing into my mother’s desktop and converting everything heic into jpeg from my arch instance.

              I wanted her to have a good experience with Linux so I avoided Ubuntu.

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      6 months ago

      And? Oh look at me I bought the best product in it’s price class, I’m a niche user or something.

      Year of the Linux desktop 2024.

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          Valve invests billions of dollars and loses money on 4M decks and everyone is screaming success 🤷‍♂️

          EA resold more copies of Skyrim on switch.

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            Valve invests billions of dollars and loses money on 4M decks and everyone is screaming success 🤷‍♂️

            You’re the one who bought the wrong tool (NVidia GPU) for the job. Blame nobody but yourself. Intel and AMD is fine since at least 15 years.

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              No, I didn’t. I have a faster GPU at a lower price with my timing and I can play every single one of my games. It’s easy and I don’t have to do shit. I don’t have to make sure drm doesn’t work and I don’t have to find some utility it script to get DPI resolution scaling working. You’re just pouty because Linux isn’t a good solution for a large chunk of users.

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        If it weren’t Nvidia’s fault, like, as in they don’t support linux on purpose “because fuck you, you do not matter, you’ll use the OS we choose and like it,” maybe you’d have a point. They could do it, easily, but they don’t because they do not care about their users.

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            Doesn’t change the fact that those hurdles are caused by nvidia on purpose and they could fix it tomorrow if they wanted, either. Don’t be mad at linux about falling victim to it, be mad at nvidia for doing it. That matters to the users, even if they falsely blame linux about it.

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                  You’re the one angry and completely ignoring the thread 🤷‍♂️ raging over the popularity of Windows making up excuses for third parties that don’t make a difference for end users.

                  Windows is popular. It will be popular until Linux desktop gets its shit together and gets rid of it’s compatibility issues.

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                    Well, if you’re complaining about how nvidia doesn’t support linux, seems like it matters to their customers to me. Stop your crying about it then if you don’t care so bad.

                    nvidia gets its shit together and gets rid of it’s compatibility issues.

                    FTFY chump.

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      Yep. I have a PC that was given to me by a friend, we aren’t all able to afford the most FOSS hardware and software…

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      I don’t even know what my display drivers are.

      They’re handled and updated by the operating system.

      Once a week I check for updates, and click a button to install anything I want updated.

      I literally have no clue what you’re talking about.