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[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 87 points 1 year ago

carefully select hardware

lmao, i've exclusively run linux on franken pcs cobbled together out of mostly second hand parts

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

The first thing I installed windows on was an discarded office tower that I had to put new memory And hard drives in. Shit was ancient and specifically did not want anything but windows installed on it. Installed Linux anyway. Works great. No specific hardware

[-] Washburn@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Pop OS has native drivers for nVidia GPUs even 😎🐧

[-] Audacity9961@feddit.ch 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this is a bit misleading.

Most or at least the majority of distros offer the proprietary nvidia driver.

Pop, Zorin, Ubuntu, Garuda, etc just bundle it in the install media as an option.

[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 points 1 year ago

I definitely had much less issues with my Nvidia card on pop os than I did with any of the other like 5 distros I tried.

[-] pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

have been using various distros over the years and never had issues with the nvidia driver on any of them 🤷‍♂️

[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 2 points 1 year ago

Elementary OS didn't work for me (broke during install -- people online said it was video drivers), and on mint and Ubuntu gaming wasn't working exactly right. In pop os 85% of my games run though

[-] SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 points 1 year ago
[-] pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I did back then. Not such much these days.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Linux has always been my go to for that specific use case as well, and I honestly have very little Linux experience. Linux just makes bizarre half broken hardware, like bad ram, work.

[-] Trebach@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I have a Jellyfin server running in the office. The video card is about 6 months old. The CPU, case, and motherboard are going on 12 years old.

[-] kaba0@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

That’s much easier grounds then.. checks notes.. a modern laptop straight from the factory.

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