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Keeps jumping to the latest kernel instead of the latest stable release.
Blames nvidia for not keeping up...
I've been on Manjaro for years and have literally NEVER had your issue. Why, because I don't just automatically change to the latest kernel and then wonder why shit doesn't work.
After an update, it'll tell me if a newer kernel is available, I'll look at it and if its a new stable release I'll change to it with no issue because an NVIDIA update was likely included with that update.
Stop forcing early adoption on your computer and then blaming others when it fucks up your shit.
Assumptions... Assumptions.
Not an assumption.
I freely admit that it's an anecdotal fallacy in that it's based entirely on my own experience and may or may not reflect the larger reality. But it would only be an assumption if it's something that I was just guessing was true, whereas I've been around the Linux world long enough to see it first hand.
You have adapted your way of working around the fact that it can break:
I call that way of not updating "annoying" and insecure IMO.
Other vendors don't have this issue.
My conclusion: steer clear of Nvidia.
Didn't say anything about auto-updating. Just can't be bleeding edge and use proprietary drivers, that's all. Other (AMD) use the open source drivers, so they don't have that issue. And that's great. But if you use the NVIDIA propietary drivers, you can't race ahead of them.
That doesn't make the drivers bad; they work perfectly fine; and have far far far better performance than AMD. There's just the trade-off that you can't be bleeding edge when using them.
You take the good you take the bad you take them both and there you have...the facts of life.
You're argument that drivers are bad because you can't fuck around with your system without them breaking is disingenuous. If you buy a brand new Wacom tablet, and it turns out that it's too new and the Kernel doesn't support it yet, or no one has written a patch to get it working, you don't claim that Wacom is a shit company. It's just a fact of life that you have to wait for either the kernel to update or for someone to get a patch working.
But when it comes to NVIDIA...holy shit... WORST, period, COMPANY, period, EVER!!!! And that's just hypocritical.
Bleeding edge in Debian? I was not even using the "testing" release of Debian.
If your point is that it's fine for a company to get their stuff out there in a timely fashion, that company just sucks balls in my opinion.
Just FYI I am perfectly fine with you having your workarounds and (apparently different) opinion.
I expected some basic civility and more constructive tone of words. But if you start blaming me as a user for something basically ALL other vendors are coping with just fine, thats where the discussion stops with me.
I am definitely not against linux (daily user myself). And honestly, people like you don't make Linux more attractive of an option.
Have a good one.
I agree. User is probably doing unsupported options. If they want to live on the bleeding edge, that is fine, but dont blame the hardware if something does not work.