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I don't understand your comment regarding Nvidia. I have Ubuntu with Nvidia propriety drivers. How is Pop OS any different?
by aero-glide2 5y ago
I don't understand your comment regarding Nvidia. I have Ubuntu with Nvidia propriety drivers. How is Pop OS any different?
- beermonster 5y agoI know Ubuntu works with the nvidia-* drivers but does it detect and select them for use by default or does it use nouveau until a (knowledgable) user reconfigures which driver is in use? And with legacy nvidia such as 340 there isn’t Wayland support and so enabling by default could lead to a broken system. Same with a kernel greater >= 5.10 and that particular driver series. So would be nice to hear what Pop OS is doing here that Ubuntu isn’t. If the rumours of nvidia open sourcing their drivers are true (sorry no link - just something I heard) they’ll all work out of the box one day (hopefully !).
- opheliate 5y agoIf, during the Ubuntu install process, you check the box to install proprietary drivers, it will automatically detect & install the nvidia-* drivers. You can also do this from the settings post-install. No Linux knowledge required really, it’s easier than the state of things on Windows.
- beermonster 5y agoNice :)
- thom 5y agoNone of the solutions for switching between discrete and integrated graphics cards on Linux are particularly great (compared to Windows where it just works automagically). Pop OS at the very least has some nice UI to switch modes, and doesn’t default to Nouveau etc. Nothing you can’t achieve elsewhere but nice that they’re thought about it.
- michaelmrose 5y agoI believe cinnamon has integration where you can right click on the launcher and run with discrete GPU.
- aero-glide2 5y agodefault Ubuntu has the same. (Make sure you are in on-demand mode in Nvidia).