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>which is simply that Nvidia refuses to do a good job of supporting Linux in any way. I really dislike the way Nvidia makes it difficult for projects like Nouv

>which is simply that Nvidia refuses to do a good job of supporting Linux in any way. I really dislike the way Nvidia makes it difficult for projects like Nouveau to reverse engineer an open driver, however I don't understand what you mean by poor support for their Linux driver, it's probably the one thing I can't fault them for as it is performing very well and stable. I'm with you on not buying NVidia products though, that is the best way to send a message.

apatters 8y ago
YMMV I suppose. Some people seem to have good experiences with their driver but mine have been terrible. I've used Ubuntu as my daily driver for 7 years now and Nvidia's driver has been the #1 source of crashes and configuration problems (half of the time I can't even get 3d accel working with it turned on, spend hours trying different versions that are reported on some forum to have fixed some problem but they don't, can't figure out why things aren't working, upon upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04 it borked the whole system and I had to switch to Nouveau, this list of Nvidia driver pain goes on forever, this is across multiple installs of Ubuntu). All my experience has been on laptops and there are lots of reports of Optimus related problems on Linux so there's that. I gave up on the hope of having Optimus actually work years ago. I would like to just be able to enable the latest version of Nvidia's driver and see my laptop start using the discrete gpu. That would be a big step forward from the past 7 years. FWIW there's Linus' famous Nvidia F-bomb :) "Nvidia has been the single worst company we ever dealt with" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw
- rincebrain 8y ago
  FWIW it's quite possible that's not Linux-specific, a bunch of people have problems with NVIDIA driver crashes on, say, Windows too. There's a reason Microsoft shimmed the ability for the display driver to crash and restart without taking out the rest of Windows...
- Doxin 8y ago
  You should give the SGFXI[1] script a try. it's a bit of a hassle to use video drivers from outside the apt-repos but that script basically always manages to set up a working driver for me. [1] https://smxi.org/docs/sgfxi-manual.htm https://smxi.org/docs/sgfxi-manual.htm

apatters 8y ago

YMMV I suppose. Some people seem to have good experiences with their driver but mine have been terrible. I've used Ubuntu as my daily driver for 7 years now and Nvidia's driver has been the #1 source of crashes and configuration problems (half of the time I can't even get 3d accel working with it turned on, spend hours trying different versions that are reported on some forum to have fixed some problem but they don't, can't figure out why things aren't working, upon upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04 it borked the whole system and I had to switch to Nouveau, this list of Nvidia driver pain goes on forever, this is across multiple installs of Ubuntu). All my experience has been on laptops and there are lots of reports of Optimus related problems on Linux so there's that. I gave up on the hope of having Optimus actually work years ago. I would like to just be able to enable the latest version of Nvidia's driver and see my laptop start using the discrete gpu. That would be a big step forward from the past 7 years. FWIW there's Linus' famous Nvidia F-bomb :) "Nvidia has been the single worst company we ever dealt with" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw

rincebrain 8y ago
FWIW it's quite possible that's not Linux-specific, a bunch of people have problems with NVIDIA driver crashes on, say, Windows too. There's a reason Microsoft shimmed the ability for the display driver to crash and restart without taking out the rest of Windows...
Doxin 8y ago
You should give the SGFXI[1] script a try. it's a bit of a hassle to use video drivers from outside the apt-repos but that script basically always manages to set up a working driver for me. [1] https://smxi.org/docs/sgfxi-manual.htm https://smxi.org/docs/sgfxi-manual.htm