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Totally agree. For all the non-Mac laptops I've used, nouveau is never a problem. And Ubuntu default setting is pretty good nowadays. I'm suprise that those point make it to a "2020 Edition" list.

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Have you tried it with Pascal cards and later? It simply doesn’t work at all, with my experience.

I don't have any experience with Pascal cards. My ones are usually the consumer laptops from Dell (Inspiron, Vostro, XPS, Precisions), Lenovo Thinkpad, HP...

Pascal works [1], later cards indeed do not work well, but this is due to NVIDIA's hostility and not something the community can easily fix. Not a Linux problem, but an NVIDIA problem.

1 - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau-...

NVIDIA has taken an indifferent / hostile approach for a few decades, and only now is it changing. So, the easiest fix is to ditch NVIDIA because it doesn't play well with Linux.

If you don't want to ditch NVIDIA then ditch Linux, but don't blame Linux because NVIDIA doesn't want to play ball.

AMD on the other hand supports open source (not just Linux), and has made a fair amount of it's hardware documentation available (unlike NVIDIA). On my workstation with an AMD card it runs the same games about 5% quicker under Linux than it does under Windows (and other benchmarks back that up).

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