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[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 3 points 1 month ago

On Ubuntu you can also just run:

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

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