From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:49:48 -0000 (UTC), Gremlin wrote:   
      
   > CrudeSausage    
   > news:6974cd0d$4$19$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:45:49   
   > GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >> I'll say this much: as nice as Fedora was, it was an absolute disaster   
   >> on NVIDIA GPU. Every time I would install the driver, following the   
   >> instructions exactly, it would break the moment the system was updated.   
   >> The problem is that it was _always_ updating.   
   >   
   > Running MXLinux distro here. It doesn't keep me on the bleeding edge of   
   > tech - but - it's very reliable and stable. Those are two things that   
   > are very important to me. I prefer not to find myself in a situation   
   > where applying updates breaks the entire system or breaks something   
   > specific that's important for either me or a client that I switched over   
   > to Linux.   
   >   
   > Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Acer Incorporated   
   > ALI driver: i915   
   >     v: kernel arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports:   
   > active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2   
   >     bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a60 class-ID: 0300   
   >   Device-2: NVIDIA GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] vendor: Acer   
   > Incorporated ALI driver: N/A   
   >     alternate: nouveau non-free: 530.xx+ status:   
   >   
   > Those are the video details on this rig. I've had zero problems with it   
   > since I installed Linux on it in August of last year.   
   >   
   > Some years back when I was running Mint (17.3 KDE edition) I did run   
   > into some issues installing the NVIDIA driver for the card that was in   
   > it. It was years ago and NVIDIA has made some progress with their   
   > drivers. I haven't run into any issues with this distro...   
      
   Linux has come a long way with NVIDIA. For a good decade, getting my   
   computer to wake from suspend on a 970M was chaos. It always necessitated   
   a hard reboot. Similarly, the computer would often refuse to shut down. As   
   a result, I'd get home to an overheating computer because it was still on   
   while in my backpack (even though I had shut it down and it looked like it   
   had succeeded) and not getting any kind of airflow. Nowadays, it wakes   
   from sleep as expected, works in both X and Wayland and does not force me   
   to compromise on anything. However, all of that is out the window if I   
   decide to use the hardware encryption of my storage device. Waking a   
   computer if you have hardware encryption enabled will restore most of the   
   problems I used to have, particularly the refusal to wake from sleep.   
      
      
      
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