Honestly, when was the last time you had massive device driver issues on your Linux desktop? 🫵
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@nixCraft Well, I can't get a decent driver for my ancient AMD card, but that's more AMD dropping support for it TBH.
The system dual-boots to Windows. AMD still dropped support for the card but the AMD-signed driver from Windows Update works great.
So I can play some games on Windows but the same games are really choppy/laggy on Linux. 🫤
@nixCraft One computer the monitors don't stay off after inactivity and the other computer crashes after suspend 50% of the time. So... 0 seconds?
@nixCraft when was the last time you installed Nvidia drivers?
@nixCraft Long time ago! Last 10 years from Lenovo to Assus to System76, never had massive issues with drivers.
Hot topic to me was always hibernate/suspend. My guess due to GPU.
it has been around 16 years and I remember that vividly @nixCraft
@nixCraft Every day. Qubes OS and Nvidia are no friends and a nice(!) fanless AMD does not seem to exist.
Worth it.
@nixCraft I have two issues that I can think of.
When I use my bluetooth headphones on my HP laptop they work fine at first. I come back after some time, and Firefox and or the audio system no longer functions. Wired earbuds always work, so I've quit using wireless.
On another system the amdgpu will not render colors correctly to an external monitor. Using the proprietary OS I can force the driver to use 442 RGB, and colors work fine. I can't figure out how to get the FOSS driver to work.
@nixCraft thus far? Never 😊
@nixCraft yesterday, when amdgpu and/or gnome shell randomly freeze and crash in games.
@nixCraft About 20 years ago, IIRC.
@nixCraft I have a Lenovo laptop (not a desktop) where the onboard WiFi was completely absent on Debian 12, making a dongle necessary.
However, after updating to '13, onboard WiFi works great.
I have an MSI gaming desktop where everything works perfectly.
Depends on your network adapter. 😉 There is some often used hardware where the updated drivers are not automatically included in the kernel. And its not easy to find the download location (often result of some research) without internet connectivity. ;)
@nixCraft Last time I rebooted with a new kernel [checks uptime] 47 days ago. Rebooted with the old kernel to get the network driver back, and I think I've built the module for the new kernel but not yet rebooted, so it should work when I reboot unless yet another new kernel has appeared. I should get the DKMS working or something shouldnt I? (88x2bu network driver if you must know...)
@nixCraft 5 years ago I guess. A graphic card.