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Same story: 16 core, 64GB ram, 6900xt. And nothing crashes because even when being ridiculous I knew better than use Nvidia on Linux

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Meanwhile, my Linux partition is rock solid and I cannot for the life of me figure out random hangs and crashes on clean Windows installs.

It is an Nvidia GPU. Honestly, they’re rarely the problem in Linux. Not in practice anyway.

Any hardware diag I try passes. Drivers? Tried both manufacturer and Windows Update. Always ends the same.

The mouse driver BSODed the machine one time. That was a new one.

I’ll stick with a Linux distro for real work, thanks.

Aren't we all using libinput now? I'm shocked the mouse driver BSODs Linux these days.

I've been using Linux as my primary OS for around 3 years now with an nvidia GPU and haven't had any issues. I don't run Wayland for obvious reasons, but otherwise the system is rock solid. I have not had anything resembling the nightmare experience people claim with Linux and nvidia GPUs.

Linus Torvalds giving the finger to Nvidia should be required reading for all new Linux adventurers.

I'll take "Sentiments from the Linux Community that Actively Drive Users Away" for 300.

Yeah, there's a huge problem in the community where every problem is the user's fault.

Like, using the most popular graphics card provider on Linux shouldn't be some outlandish idea that should be ridiculed.

I think it will change in a few years. There's been a lot of cool stuff added to Linux over the past few years. You can even use peripherals like hardware fan controllers or RGB hubs. With Nvidia open sourcing their drivers I'm hoping that wayland issues get ironed out sooner rather than later

In reality it's more like a sentiment of a certain hardware manufacturer towards the Linux community. The best the community can do is make it known.

Good, too many people are using Linux.

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