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That said, I did just spend almost half a day trying to debug why SuSE couldn’t see my NVIDIA card. After giving up on that, I tried Fedora which forces Wayland

by ioands 1y ago

That said, I did just spend almost half a day trying to debug why SuSE couldn’t see my NVIDIA card. After giving up on that, I tried Fedora which forces Wayland on me and was stuttery for no obvious reason. Finally I tried Arch and it seems to work fine without much fiddling about. Meanwhile I can buy a Mac and use it immediately, and Windows is a pain but I never have to try 100 solutions before it works. That’s on me for using NVIDIA though, I’m sure it’s much smoother with Intel and AMD hardware.

simoncion 1y ago
> That’s on me for using NVIDIA though, I’m sure it’s much smoother with Intel and AMD hardware. Yeah, I can confirm that AMD on Linux just fucking works and has for ages. I've not used any recent Intel 3D accelerator cards, but if their new stuff is as solid as their stuff from like twenty years ago, then it'll also just fucking work.
- giancarlostoro 1y ago
  > Yeah, I can confirm that AMD on Linux just fucking works and has for ages. I've not used any recent Intel 3D accelerator cards, but if their new stuff is as solid as their stuff from like twenty years ago, then it'll also just fucking work. I've had the complete opposite experience. It's only now that I'm using Nvidia that Linux works for me... I hate to admit it, I'm an AMD fanboy.
  - simoncion 1y ago
    > It's only now that I'm using Nvidia that Linux works for me... I hate to admit it, I'm an AMD fanboy. Weird. I've been using AMD hardware on Linux for the past ~twenty years... since back when they were ATi. Aside from when one had to write one's own Xorg.conf [0], everything has just worked. Having said that, all of my laptops have used Intel graphics hardware, so perhaps none of my ATi- or AMD-video-card-bearing systems properly suspended to RAM or hibernated? I wouldn't know because that's not something I do with my desktops or servers. [0] Or whatever XFree86 called that config file
giancarlostoro 1y ago
I just use EndeavourOS which is Arch based, but has a simpler installer. I know its a meme that Arch people wont shut up about using Arch, but seriously, give it a shot. Pro-tip do installs / updates with "yay" and you will not want to pull your hair out, Pacman is too "low level" for normal use, yay is higher level and simple. How to update your system? just run "yay" no params. Comes out of the box on EndeavourOS. SteamOS is also based on Arch these days so it will always work the best with Steam. ;) I do miss openSUSE, but when they became a rolling distro it stopped supporting things like my wireless card OOTB so I stopped trying to use openSUSE.

by ioands 1y ago

simoncion 1y ago

> That’s on me for using NVIDIA though, I’m sure it’s much smoother with Intel and AMD hardware. Yeah, I can confirm that AMD on Linux just fucking works and has for ages. I've not used any recent Intel 3D accelerator cards, but if their new stuff is as solid as their stuff from like twenty years ago, then it'll also just fucking work.

giancarlostoro 1y ago
> Yeah, I can confirm that AMD on Linux just fucking works and has for ages. I've not used any recent Intel 3D accelerator cards, but if their new stuff is as solid as their stuff from like twenty years ago, then it'll also just fucking work. I've had the complete opposite experience. It's only now that I'm using Nvidia that Linux works for me... I hate to admit it, I'm an AMD fanboy.
- simoncion 1y ago
  > It's only now that I'm using Nvidia that Linux works for me... I hate to admit it, I'm an AMD fanboy. Weird. I've been using AMD hardware on Linux for the past ~twenty years... since back when they were ATi. Aside from when one had to write one's own Xorg.conf [0], everything has just worked. Having said that, all of my laptops have used Intel graphics hardware, so perhaps none of my ATi- or AMD-video-card-bearing systems properly suspended to RAM or hibernated? I wouldn't know because that's not something I do with my desktops or servers. [0] Or whatever XFree86 called that config file

giancarlostoro 1y ago

I just use EndeavourOS which is Arch based, but has a simpler installer. I know its a meme that Arch people wont shut up about using Arch, but seriously, give it a shot. Pro-tip do installs / updates with "yay" and you will not want to pull your hair out, Pacman is too "low level" for normal use, yay is higher level and simple. How to update your system? just run "yay" no params. Comes out of the box on EndeavourOS. SteamOS is also based on Arch these days so it will always work the best with Steam. ;) I do miss openSUSE, but when they became a rolling distro it stopped supporting things like my wireless card OOTB so I stopped trying to use openSUSE.