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I'll match you anecdote for anecdote -- one of the machines at work only works with Nouveau and locks up hard if you try the proprietary driver. Another works
by sevensor 8y ago
I'll match you anecdote for anecdote -- one of the machines at work only works with Nouveau and locks up hard if you try the proprietary driver. Another works only with the proprietary driver and locks up hard if you try nouveau. A third one is flaky either way, unless you're running KDE. In which case it locks up hard. We've had no trouble at all with Intel or AMD.
Even under Windows, we've had trouble with NVidia drivers randomly crashing and taking the system down with them.
- drewg123 8y agoThe problems I always had with the Intel drivers in the past is that you often needed to be running a bleeding edge kernel to get support for them. This is less of a problem on Ubuntu now with the hw enablement kernels. I honestly stopped using AMD for graphics a decade ago when I had a card that was too old for the proprietary flglrx driver, but not old enough for the (at the time) feeble, community supported open source drivers. Maybe I should take another look at them. Amusingly, I'm typing this from an AMD Threadripper2 running with Nvidia graphics.
- lasagnaphil 8y ago2 years ago I’ve started using Arch Linux for my laptop because of slow nvidia graphics driver updates from Ubuntu... Don’t know how things are nowadays Arch, being a rolling-release distribution, can always get you the latest driver updates with the package manager (but with the cost of being a little bit more work to maintain)
- sevensor 8y agoI also use Arch, so I can't speak to the Ubuntu situation. I'd certainly hate to have to stay abreast of drivers on any other distribution. For all that Ubuntu promises that it Just Works, it seems like way too much trouble compared to Arch.