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as an nvidia user, how hellish would using linux be?
| It depends of what you want to do, if you're a gamer, you'll struggle because Nvidia kill itself every update, if you aren't, just use Nouveau (open source, less performant drivers) and enjoy an easy life.
| I haven't had any problems with nvidia drivers for like 8 years or so.
| I have Nvidia card and run proprietary driver's, if it kills itself you basically just launch with nomodeset from grub and purge the old driver then install new one but I haven't really had to do that recently... I also don't run Linux daily driver though so
| Also of note if your card doesn't get a picture use nomodeset and then install proprietary drivers nouveau sometimes doesn't support newer gpus (I had that issue when I got my 970 originally) because Nvidia gives them 0 help
| It's been a nightmare for me trying to get legacy nvidia drivers working. I wanted to turn my old laptop into Retroarch machine, but I'm this close to giving up. Grain of salt though, since I've only ever used dummy-friendly distros like Pop_OS. My modernish card (2060) has no issues.
| >>826795 >>826752 did you actually mean "kills itself" literally, as in they are programmed to have planned obsolescence?
| In my experience no it just sometimes through updates manages to put itself in an unusable state
| So you have to nomodeset and purge all Nvidia stuff then reinstall
| Just install proprietary drivers and you will be fine.
| I see. Thanks for the help
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| I'm not getting another graphics card in this Economy™