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I want to switch back to Linux but I keep having gpu driver issues. Everything was fine until I got a 165hz monitor then had random crashes. If the fact I am using gnome on xorg vs Wayland was the problem (who knows, I gave up on debugging) then I'm all for it

I'd rather just use windows and run Linux in a vm then not use the features of the monitor that I bought.

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What GPU were you driving, and were your issues with Xorg or Wayland?

I'm running 165hz + 240hz on Xorg with i3vm or KDE Plasma (kwin). OpenGL compositor with Nvidias drivers. Everything works fine.

Using a rtx 3070 with the Nvidia drivers. It worked fine until some update but like I said, I gave up on debugging.

It goes to show that I got downvoted for my original comment. I used to use Linux as my main os for about 7 years, but now my free time is more limited. I don't care to debug these type of problems when I am trying to just use my computer.

At work I remote into a Linux vm, so I'll do that at home as well whether my host os is windows or mac. It works for me.

Weird, i run a bunch of weirdo displays from 25hz to 240hz and never had any issues, even with nvidia drivers. Tbh i have more bugs with AMD although I perfer their approach more.

Laptop at 165 hz, desktop monitor at 144 and second at 260. All work fine on linux mint x11 with nvidia drivers and kde. No hdr but that's fine.

The most fun thing about Linux is that everything seems to work fine for some people and be broken for others.

My experience is if you buy very common hardware, other people have already driven over all landmines.

I have a fairly typical AMD 3600 cpu and 5700xt with a mid tier common mobo. All stuff that's super consumer and a few years old now. And I still encounter tons of random issues. And updates that break stuff that used to work.

Sure, its a lot worse for brand new laptops. But it never entirely works to the level you'd get from macOS.

Well, macos only has to support a low-digit number of sanctioned configs, so that’s much easier. For whatever it worth, I found linux’s device support the very best — while windows does likely have some random binary for a given device laying around the internet, it is often borderline malware, and may not work too well on a newer windows version (though credit where its due, windows’ backwards compatibility is phenomenal). Linux has a vast amount of supported devices out of the box, no “windows is looking for a solution”.

That seems to be the case. But on hardware it works it’s awesome.

Windows has the advantage that there is only one desktop environment and display server, and you will use it.

This is also its disadvantage.

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