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>Oh cool there's a .001 version bump on the graphics drivers, let me spend all day recompiling that and tweaking my awesomerc. That's a you problem, not a Linu
by midoridensha 4y ago
>Oh cool there's a .001 version bump on the graphics drivers, let me spend all day recompiling that and tweaking my awesomerc.
That's a you problem, not a Linux problem.
I haven't compiled any drivers for Linux in many, many years, probably decades even.
It helps to avoid Nvidia GPUs however, but even here I haven't seen a big problem in ages (my work computer unfortunately sticks me with an Nvidia, but Debian updates seem to work as normal).
- smcl 4y agoThat's true in some cases, but remember hardware support can be a little bit mixed, particularly closer to the bleeding edge. So you could be happy enough most of the time, but if you encounter an issue that is annoying and disruptive but obscure enough that 90% of your day-to-day is OK, then you could definitely find yourself rebuilding and using kernel point-releases
- midoridensha 4y agoI'm sorry, this is just wrong. I've never heard of anyone absolutely needing to compile anything, especially the kernel, on a mainstream Linux distro (e.g. Ubuntu) in ages. Plus, if your graphics card is Nvidia, you don't get to compile anything: the driver is a binary blob (only the shim is compiled).
- smcl 4y agoI have literally experienced this, I'm not sure how you can dismiss it as "just wrong"
- midoridensha 4y agoWhat, exactly, have you experienced?
- AdamJacobMuller 4y agoI ran gentoo, from stage1 ~amd64. I compiled everything from scratch. I know I did it in hard mode.
- midoridensha 4y agoGentoo is NOT a mainstream distro.