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Fuck nvidia. (mujico.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SinJab0n@mujico.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Thats why i never buy their shit after having one laptop with one of their graphics.

Worst part? I'm still using that laptop, im doing troubleshooting right now.

Anyone else?

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My last nvidia card (a 1050) had some weird non-obvious (likely hardware) issue that caused it to utterly lose its mind when faced with certain OpenGL shaders, but only when running the proprietary driver. It would throw bands of static on the screen or randomly drop the signal to the monitor. This persisted through several changes of kernel and driver version. It was solid under nouveau, but the performance suffered such that I noticed a lag even for just normal desktop use. In the end, I replaced it with an AMD card rather than attempt to troubleshoot it any further. My previous nvidia cards were solid, though.

[–] Hopscotch@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's ironic but unsurprising, and my experience too, that some functionality works better with Nouveau than with the proprietary Nvidia drivers.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why I haven't switched to Linux yet. I have a gaming laptop and a desktop pc is not an option at the moment.

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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is not accurate at all. It always works using Ubuntu's GUI and you don't have to reboot or anything. Only issues I had was that you have to reinstall those drivers each time you upgrade to a new version of Ubuntu

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