• mortalic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I just installed fedora 40. Was absolutely amazed when my three monitors just worked. Installed some games and realized I had forgotten to install the Nvidia drivers. Installed them… Laptop locked up wouldn’t boot. Unplugged the third monitor and it started working. Screw Nvidia. Not buying another system with their trash. Fix your driver’s you selfish POS

  • palordrolap@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Debian has a .deb that does the job.

    Unless you have a really old graphics card anyway and then you have to use the .run installer from Nvidia. Pain in the a– sure, but still not Joker level hurt-the-world madness.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    “Do you want to know where I got these scars?! I found a handy guide to installing the Wi-Fi drivers I needed, but I couldn’t use it could I? Because it required that I already be online…”

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I always use my usb to phone cable in these situations. Basically any distro has a driver ready to see the phone‘s hotspot network. Saved me a lot of times, lol

      • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        I do the same. In case someone wants to know how it works with an Android phone, you connect your phone to your PC over USB and then you get a notification on your phone that says something like “Charging over USB”. If you tap on that, you can change the connection mode and one of the modes is “USB tethering”. If you select that, your PC will have an internet connection over the USB connection to your phone. It’s kinda like hotspot over USB.

    • FatCat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      😂🤭 true. This used to happen to me in 2021 with 11th gen Intel laptop and Linux Mint…

    • nelson@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      WiFi drivers… Bluetooth in general… Printers…

      It could make a grown man cry I tell ya. CRY

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I had to buy an Ethernet dongle for my Lenovo laptop for just such an occasion, and that was an adventure to get working.

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
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        1 year ago

        In my case, the Ethernet wasn’t working either.
        So I had to log into Windows, to try and find out the correct downloads. Failed that too.

  • seth@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I did it on Arch and no problems!

    Arch, BTW.

    Also, I’m told it’s going to really fail at some point, but so far, pacman -Syu has worked like a charm.

  • AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I installed Linux Mint three days ago. Nvidia drivers got installed automatically and I was able to load up steam and play right away. No idea what this meme is talking about

    • ture@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      I remember it being like that already in 2014. The only thing especially annoying I remember was having to use optimus to manually switch between the “internal” Intel GPU and the dedicated Nvidia GPU to not run out of battery within an hour. But the whole set up thing was never an issue for me on Mint and Ubuntu even 10 years ago.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I was considering eventually moving to Linux.

    Now I’ll wait till my current system gets an upgrade

    • Custodian1623@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s really not that bad, especially if you pick a distro like Pop that has the drivers bundled so you don’t even need to touch it

    • macniel@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Be happy that you live in the days where installing Nvidia drivers is as easy as it is right now… There were… darker times.

  • summerof69@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    pacman -S nvidia and I’ve never had any issues. I know that it’s not that easy in some other distros, but maybe stop using shitty distros.

    • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      This is the most Arch Linux comment I’ve read in a while. This is easy in most mainstream distros now, but there are exceptions like NixOS or Gentoo, which aren’t shitty but are just harder for specific reasons.

  • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m starting to think I’m some kind of Linux Genius because I’ve installed Nobara, clicked on “yes” when it asked me if I wanna install the driver and voilà. Never had an issue except steam flickering but I really don’t care.