• absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Yep, really new hardware is still an issue.

    My new Zenbook (AMD CPU/GPU) had pretty major issues until the chip family was around a year old.

    Previous to this laptop, I always got older hardware when it went on sale (usually from Dell), chip sets and CPU’s that have had a while to “mature” I never had any issues with. Except of course with Nvidia drivers, those are always shit.

    If you stick with older hardware, you very likely wouldn’t ever experience hardware issues.

    I’ve been running various distributions at my primary OS since around 2006. Hardware support these days is amazing.

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      1 year ago

      Except of course with Nvidia drivers, those are always shit.

      Doesn’t that depend on the distro? In most cases they should be supplied as a (meta)package and only require installation through the package manager, kernel modules should be built automatically then.

      While this is ofc only anecdotal evidence: I haven’t had problems with different models of Nvidia GPUs on different distributions (OpenSUSE, Debian, Pop!_OS, Elementary, EndeavourOS) in the last years. With a small workaround, even Wayland works flawlessly - the problem with missing GAMMA_LUT support and night light notwithstanding here.

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        1 year ago

        To be fair I haven’t had a Nvidia card in about 4 years.

        So things could have changed, but over the preceding 15 odd years, no other thing caused me more issues than Nvidia drivers. But I put up with it, that is what you had to do to get good graphics.

        The AMD GPU I have now, has been great, no issues at all. I had chipset issues mainly on the new laptop.