• obnomus@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    17 hours ago

    Don’t get me wrong but installing Linux is easy but when new people try it, they run into hardware issue, and I know its no one’s fault but new users spend a lot more time to troubleshoot those issue.

    But also since people are switching to Linux, I think hardware manufacturers will support Linux so most of the things will be just plug and play.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      15 hours ago

      This feels like a 10 year old comment almost. Hardware issues with Linux must be super rare now except for Nvidia, which is because Nvidia has closed drivers and doesn’t care about Linux.

      • HouseWolf@pawb.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        14 hours ago

        super rare now except for Nvidia

        Which for PC gamers holds the majority of the market…

      • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        14 hours ago

        Except even this is no longer an issue. There’s nvidia-open driver, and, at least to my knowledge, it works without any problems.

        • SarcasmIntended@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          12 hours ago

          Tell that to every one of my installs.

          Literally every time I try a distro, I have to hope the NVIDIA drivers download and actually work. Then I have to hope the distro actually switches between it and the integrated GPU.

          • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            11 hours ago

            uhm… you don’t have to hope…? You can literally check which driver is installed. You can even install preferable driver version via your package manager and delete mesa drivers if you don’t want your system to ever use the integrated gpu.