• IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

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

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        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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          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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            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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          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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      It’s SUPER hard to use. I had to download an .iso from my distro’s website, make a bootable USB drive, plug that into my computer and boot into it, answer a few questions and wait a few minutes, A FEW MINUTES… can you believe that??
      And then It had the audacity to give me a super easy, working, private OS! Like what the fuck!
      How bloody dare you make my life difficult. I was expecting to be TRACKED and EXPLOITED and BOMBARDED with ads all day.
      Instead I get all this calm and happiness??
      FFS!

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      The biggest strength is also its biggest weakness. Linux just has so many different ways to configure it