I want to make the move to Mint at the end of Win10 in a week or so, but I’ve heard some horror stories about how tough it can be to get Nvidia GPUs working with them. As it is I have a 4060TI and no money for an AMD GPU. If I can’t get my GPU working with Linux I’m probably gonna end up having to stick with Windows untim I can afford an AMD GPU, the thought of which doesn’t exactly excite me.

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
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    11 hours ago

    I have been dual-booting Arch and Debian with an NVidua Gforce-759 Ti since say, 2015 and had several problems, in spite of having an otherwise totally vanilla PC system:

    • in Arch, automatic compile of kernel module on update not working
    • updates breaking grub because of missing kernel modules
    • Arch no longer booting after an Debian upgrade
    • Wayland in Debian not working properly.
    • Provlems with running Arch in VMs.
    • Guix System not supported.

    Yes, all that was solvable with some effort, and with experience from 25 years of using Linux.

    So, in sum it was perhaps costing one full week, or ten days time.

    But I decided that all that hassle and breakage was simply not worth my time, and swapped the card for an AMD Radeon.

    No problems since.

    The morale is: If you want to use Linux, make sure you use fully supported hardware, with open source drivers from the main kernel. Including laptops.

    Everything else is probably not worth the time.

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