• ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world
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    Well, my brother installed linux (mint) on more than 30 laptops that we were fixing to reuse. Im pretty sure none of them had any driver problems.

    Tbh, unless you have a NVIDIA graphics card, or are using arch*, driver issues almost never happen.

    *my personal thinkpads wifi board didn’t work in arch, but that may be because I had already borked that install completly.

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      “Unless you have a computer in the 90% of users” is a hell of a dismissal.

      In fairness, thin-and-light media and web use laptops are a different story, but for desktop use? That’s a big stretch.

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      Even the Nvidia graphics card sentiment is becoming outdated. There have been sizeable improvements in their drivers over the past couple years.

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        In the last twenty years, I’ve pretty much only had nVidia hardware for graphics with very few issues.

        Of course that wasn’t in laptops. Having a GPU in a laptop is asking for trouble anyway in my opinion.

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        Correct. I’ve been rocking their open source driver on Wayland for about a year now, pretty smooth experience.

        Though sleep is still a neverending struggle.

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          You’ve been rocking it for what? Does it support the DLSS feature set now along with HDR and VRR? I mean, it sure did show me a desktop for the few days I spent trying to get a clean, working install of the proprietary driver, but I wasn’t under the impression that I’d have feature parity without doing that.

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          Yeah, I was having trouble with sleep, and kwin compositing (KDE), so I switched to proprietary drivers and X11, its working pretty well.