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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by michaelmrose on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:07AM (#13627206)
I'm guessing you went with the open source drivers that have transitioned from horrible to merely inferior without much help from nvidia. The official drivers from nvidia, which you would install as a matter of course with windows, both work better and come with a gui to configure your settings and multiple monitors.
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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by danieldk on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:13AM (#13627223)
If (s)he uses the box for GPGPU computing, you can be pretty sure that they are using nVidias drivers. (CUDA doesn't work when the Nouveau drivers are loaded.)
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Re:Linux pioneer Munich poised to ditch open source and retu... by Eridrus on Sunday February 12, 2017 @11:45PM (#13633185)
Fwiw, I used the Nvidia drivers.

But the fact that users are presented with a choice and have the opportunity to screw things up sort of shows the misalignment between Linux and the general public.

The general public wants and needs a computer they can't screw up, not something endlessly configurable.

For most people, if things don't work out of the box, they might as well not work at all. Many people don't even know drivers exist because they've never had to manually install them.

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