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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Did you use your package manager and dkms? You need to recompile the driver hook with each kernel update.

I've had Nvidia cards since the Riva TNT2 and it's been reasonably smooth sailing... 🤷‍♂️

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That doesn't sound remotely like "smooth sailing"...

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I suppose if you don't know what you're doing - that's true. It's not something unique to nvidia either - it's true of any drivers outside the kernel source. But that's what dkms is for - it automatically handles it for you when you update your kernel.

If you don't want to learn how the system you use works then you suffer the consequences. Or you just continue to blame nvidia for your own ignorance as I'm sure you will.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 2 hours ago

If you don't want to learn how the system you use works then you suffer the consequences.

No consequences here. I'm perfectly happy continuing on using AMD.

you just continue to blame nvidia for your own ignorance as I'm sure you will.

It's nothing to do with my ignorance and everything to do with me simply not want to spend hours upon hours digging through forums and entering commands that do nothing.

Why do you think AMD always work out of the box and people constantly have problems with Nvidia? Is it because they're "ignorant" or because it's unnecessarily convoluted?