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6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? (lemmy.world)
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[-] Manticore@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Nope, will probably avoid 11 as long as I can though. I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux). And I need professional design software for work (as in, industry standard: Adobe or Affinity).

But I put 11 on my laptop to try it and I hate it. So many terrible UI changes, UX noticeably worse. Like they changed stuff just to say they changed stuff.

I considered going Linux for personal use and development, and then using another machine or dual boot for Mac for design software. But i learned about the Nvidia issues after I upgraded my card :/ and swapping to Mac's walled garden after avoiding it for decades is.... a sign of how bad W11 feels to use.

[-] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

If you have a newer NVIDIA, you should be good. It's a little rough around the edges here and there (steam overlay flickered for a friend, but that was months ago and could well be fixed) , but to my understanding, the worst issues have been solved. And having previously used an RTX 2040, it worke perfectly where it truly matters.

Like others have said, try a dualboot. It can't hurt.

[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux).

They haven't been for a while now. On some newer distros they'll install the Nvidia drivers at the same time as the OS itself.

[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux

I dunno man, Debian makes it pretty easy.

  1. Prerequisites

x64 Kernel headers:

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64
  1. Debian 12 Installation

Disable secure boot & add ‘Contrib’ repository to sources list:

sudo deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Install Nvidia driver

sudo apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree

Restart system.

Bonus points for optimal performance follow CUDA doc & OptiX doc for Ray-Tracing & utilization of Nvidia cuda cores.

[-] thepineapplejumped@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

On Ubuntu you can also just run:

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

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