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> the general state of nvidia drivers on linux ... is great? They have been well supported for decades, has working drivers for every GPU on release day and ev
by calcifer 6y ago
> the general state of nvidia drivers on linux
... is great? They have been well supported for decades, has working drivers for every GPU on release day and even 10+ year old cards get updated drivers for new kernels / X servers whereas AMD takes months/years to have usable drivers in a stable kernel.
- dtx1 6y agoIs that so? I always here: stay away from nvidia on Linux, especially but not limited to using Wayland. Is that truly not the case?
- calcifer 6y agoWell, my experience [1] has been nearly perfect, certainly much better than what I've had with AMD. Nvidia has been pretty much plug&play for me for a long time, with very few issues. For Wayland yes, Nvidia is using a different approach than AMD/Intel so most desktop environments don't support the Nvidia way, resulting in a poor experience. That said, Wayland desktops as a whole are still quite some time away from reaching feature parity with X, so I'm not too worried just yet. [1] For reference, I've been using Linux (and only Linux) on the desktop for ~18 years.