Linux

48044 readers

758 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

120

[Solved] Sorry if this not related to this community because I don't know where to ask, but should I buy this laptop? and does it play nice with Linux. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

102 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Price: 370$
Model: Asus ROG Strix G15 (G531GV)

CPU: Intel I7 9th Gen
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB
Ram: 16GB
Storage: Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB (NVME)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I suppose if you don't know what you're doing - that's true. It's not something unique to nvidia either - it's true of any drivers outside the kernel source. But that's what dkms is for - it automatically handles it for you when you update your kernel.

If you don't want to learn how the system you use works then you suffer the consequences. Or you just continue to blame nvidia for your own ignorance as I'm sure you will.

[+] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

[deleted]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No consequences here. I’m perfectly happy continuing on using AMD.

Sure - and you're limited to systems that use an AMD chip. Consequences. I'm sure you justify this to yourself though.

Why do you think AMD always work out of the box and people constantly have problems with Nvidia? Is it because they’re “ignorant” or because it’s unnecessarily convoluted?

I don't think - I know. Because one is integrated with the kernel and built and distributed with it and the other is a separate module. This isn't something unique to nvidia either - my system has modules from system76 as well as v4l2loopback that are also compiled separately.

But since I install my packages using "apt" they are all managed by dkms and I don't need to worry about it. Because I took a few minutes to learn about how my computer works.