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Buy a different GPU
I'll let myself out
He said X, not Wayland.
Ah yes, a perfectly normal thing to do after I've previously spent thousands on my NVIDIA GPU and am just getting into Linux. Love this comment when it comes up.
This is complicated. Firstly outside of Wayland Nvidia works pretty great and has worked great for me 21 years on the other hand the amount spent is kinda irrelevant using different hardware is often actually the correct advice. Often though the logical move is use Windows on your effectively Windows only laptop and if you want to run Linux buy something compatible next go round.
Some hardware just isn't supported and given hostile to indifferent oems it will always be so
I agree, and it's been a fine experience with nvidia on Xorg. "Buy new hardware" is not what someone getting into Linux should hear though if we want to increase the number of Linux users.
If your hardware isn't supported what are people supposed to say? Gosh I'm sorry volunteers didn't donate more free work to make that shitty laptop work let me now assemble a strike force of expert programs to crack that problem by next week? Labor is a finite resource especially free labor.
I mean, you wouldn't buy a sports car and then a month later post to a forum asking questions about how to tow a 40 foot camper with it, would you? You would research this stuff beforehand, or deal with the fact that it's not compatible for that job. We can't put Nvidias thumbs into a thumbscrew and force them to offer more Linux support, so that's what we're stuck with.
The problem is that a lot of users aren't building a new machine for Linux, but converting an existing Windows laptop or desktop. In my case, I'd already bought an Nvidia card about a year before I decided to switch to Linux for gaming. Not ideal, of course, but it work a good 95% of the time and I can't really afford to get a different card right now. I'll definitely keep it in mind for my next pc upgrade, though.
It isn't wrong though. Don't give Nvidia your money
This has been a trope since Linux existed.
"Linux doesn't work with my hardware*
"Well, just spend hundreds or thousands on new hardware so you can run this free OS!"
Dude I had a bunch of people tell me to install mint OS on an older intel MacBook Pro and no one told me that out the box your Wi-Fi doesn’t work, the keyboard doesn’t light up, the touch bar doesn’t work, etc. lol
I don’t even like the Touch Bar but I need F keys so…
Then when I asked what to do they all said “well that’s your fault for using a Mac.” Most unhelpful shit ever. One guy said “well use an external keyboard and Ethernet chord then. I’m on a tower what’s the issue here?”
It’s a laptop. Sometimes I move around with it. I travel a fair bit too.
Idk honestly it’s not just a Linux thing. Any technical community you’ll often find a lot of people who hand wave away very reasonable issues instead of either suggesting a solution or, I don’t know, just not saying anything? Like they have to chime in and call you a whiner.
Did you ever get everything working? I don't have a Mac, I'm just curious.
Not with mint no. I think I’m going to try and boot pop or mint on my wife’s old X1 carbon. Specs aren’t remotely as good but it’ll be sufficient for a Jellyfin server