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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.
All AMD hardware, Bazzite was killing my GPU as soon as there was load on it and WiFi that worked intermittently, Mint had non working WiFi on a USB antenna that is supposed to be 100% Linux compatible.
So yeah, I would love it if Linux fanatics stopped pretending that Linux is just as plug n play as Windows, it isn't and solutions rely on trusting random people on the Internet.
I don't pretend anything, I commented my personal experiences. So I guess we both shouldn't expect our experience to be the norm...
And tbh, statistically you have the upper hand, most people do use windows after all. (76% or something like that?)
Even the Nvidia graphics card sentiment is becoming outdated. There have been sizeable improvements in their drivers over the past couple years.
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.
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.
I've defaulted to enabling the X reset on mine, just because waking from sleep is such shite.
Yeah, I was having trouble with sleep, and kwin compositing (KDE), so I switched to proprietary drivers and X11, its working pretty well.
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.
"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.
My man, you think 90% of pcs have a graphics card at all? I live in a poor country, so does the majority of the worlds population, and almost no one has a graphics card here.
No, I think 90% of the ones that do have a dedicated GPU have a Nvidia one. That's not an opinion, it's data that's widely available.
It's also, incidentally, just an example of one of the more egregious issues with the current state of Linux. It doesn't mean it's the only one.
In any case, that's not typically the space being discussed here. The advice generally is "get an AMD GPU", not "we are assuming you're on integrated graphics".