• Price: 370$
  • Model: Asus ROG Strix G15 (G531GV)
  • CPU: Intel I7 9th Gen
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB
  • Ram: 16GB
  • Storage: Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB (NVME)
  • Anti-Face Weapon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    NVIDIA drivers are notoriously bad. They break and WILL depreciate your card eventually, forcing you to switch to the slow open source drivers.

    I have had two cards lose support. It’s absurd.

    But for 370 it’s kinda a steal honestly.

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      2 months ago

      I would love to here more info about your issue, I bet there was just a misunderstanding 😇

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        2 months ago

        I have Nvidia gt210 in office, and latest Linux mint installed, no proprietary drivers for my GPU is installable, they exist, yes, but you can’t install them on latest Linux mint

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          2 months ago

          That seems like old nvidia card (shortly googled). For those, nvidia deserves all the fuck you it gets 😂 they don’t offer proprietary drivers for legacy card on newer kernel. For most, there exist community patched versions, but nouveau is often more feature rich (and works with wayland!). Many legacy nvidia cards require you to boot from legacy BiOS and won’t work from UEFI -> is is especially infuriating on old Mac, since those need to boot from a CD in order to be able to easily install Linux using legacy bios (there are ways to convert a EFI install, but I, till now, always failed that approach…). At least, as soon as you have grub2 and legacy bios set up, you can use grub to boot feom a iso file on your harddisk without switching back to EFI)

          This card in the laptop is not legacy and even “works” with wayland on proprietary drivers

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            2 months ago

            Thank you for your reply) most of the negative opinions people have about proprietary drivers is exactly this, they become obsolete, open source drivers on the other hand, does not, you and me agree on this, love your positive outlook on everything, feels refreshing, thank you)

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          2 months ago

          Probably still for some time. I have a laptop with a NVIDIA Optimus 1050ti from 2016 or so and it’s still going strong 8 years later. It starts getting a bit tricky (but not impossible) at 10+ years old cards

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        2 months ago

        I have a quadro k2000m in my laptop. Cannot use modern drivers, and old drivers slowly have their support dropped by everything else. If the chip works then the drivers should as well.

        AMD does not have this problem. AMD has open source drivers. If NVIDIA made their drivers open source then it would not be a problem.