RetroGoblet79@eviltoast.org to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 4 months agoNearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approachingwww.pcguide.comexternal-linkmessage-square306fedilinkarrow-up1582arrow-down17cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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minus-squarespooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI don’t know, the last time I tried Linux the fucking Nvidia driver fucked my system a couple times before I said fuck it and went back to 10. Going to try again with my amd card at some point
minus-squaremoleverine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-24 months agoAMD support is baked into the kernel, so you really don’t have to do anything unless you’re on bleeding edge hardware and the drivers are in a version of the kernel your distribution doesn’t ship yet.
minus-squarespooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoThat’s fantastic news! Nvidia drivers are literally the reason I’ve abandoned Linux easily a half dozen times.
minus-squaref4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoLinus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, can’t control what support Nvidia offers for their own products, but he often shows his opinion of them:
I don’t know, the last time I tried Linux the fucking Nvidia driver fucked my system a couple times before I said fuck it and went back to 10.
Going to try again with my amd card at some point
AMD support is baked into the kernel, so you really don’t have to do anything unless you’re on bleeding edge hardware and the drivers are in a version of the kernel your distribution doesn’t ship yet.
That’s fantastic news! Nvidia drivers are literally the reason I’ve abandoned Linux easily a half dozen times.
Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, can’t control what support Nvidia offers for their own products, but he often shows his opinion of them: