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to be fair Nvidia drivers are also a nightmare under linux



Not anymore


Until they are. When the system breaks it breaks real bad. Nvcc/gcc/cuda/kernel mismatches are a pain to match up right. It gets gnarly super fast.

All systems hit snags. In most, you skid the tires a bit, maybe lose balance. With nvidia you're flying over the handlebars on to the asphalt.

I got snagged by this just about 2 weeks ago. It gets nasty. Not as bad as CUPS, but probably #2.


Eh, depends what you want out of them.

Do you want solid dependability and settings that are right first time, because you've only got one PC and if the graphics get broken you've got no browser to google for a fix?

Do you want the absolute most up-to-date drivers, to support the very newest GPUs, while running an LTS version of your OS?

Do you want to always run the latest driver version and upgrade without testing or worrying, like we do for web browsers?

Do you want to run CUDA and ML stuff, but also want to run Steam which for some reason wants 32-bit support available?

Do you want to run on a laptop with hybrid graphics, and have suspend/resume work reliably every time?

Do you have a small /boot/ partition, because you expected initrd.img to be 50MB or less?

Do you want to support Secure Boot?

If you want to achieve all these things at once, it'll take you a few tries to get it right :)




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