Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch"

Re:Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call thei... by esperent on Saturday October 18, 2025 @07:50AM (#45626599)

This is good advice and I should have done that. However, most of the issues I had only showed up after some time of using it. For example, a big was wifi and it was very intermittent and hard to debug. I think it was going into low power mode in some circumstances and my wifi speed would randomly drop to 100kbs or less. Sometimes turning wifi off and on would fix it, sometimes a restart was required. Thankfully I did fix it eventually but I have no idea which of the many things I tried ended up working.

One thing I didn't have major issues with was my Nvidia graphics card, which was a surprise.

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Re:Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call thei... by Yohvee7u on Saturday October 18, 2025 @08:21AM (#45626774)

Ah, the issues you mentioned are the top 3 nvidia issues :P

- wake from suspend - laptop power consumption - poor wayland support - sudden desktop restarts - hidpi, external monitors, virtualization

Nvidia's proprietary crap has always worked badly, the re-implement everything and put all their development effort into NIH syndrome instead of playing along with the already existing open source stack.

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Re:Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call thei... by CaptainOfCoit on Saturday October 18, 2025 @09:00AM (#45627007)

> - wake from suspend - laptop power consumption - poor wayland support - sudden desktop restarts - hidpi, external monitors, virtualization

Now I'm a desktop user, so the first two don't really impact me, and the rest has been working fine for the ~2 years I've been in Wayland+Arch+Gnome across 3 different NVIDIA GPUs. Not sure why virtualization is there, but it also seems to work, although via WSL2 is slightly buggy, but I blame that on Microsoft rather than Linux/NVIDIA.

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Re:Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call thei... by esperent on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:28AM (#45632055)

I don't know about that. If you search around you'll find that the two most common problems people have even installing linux (any variety) on a laptop is wake from suspend and power consumption. Very few of these laptops have discrete GPUs.

As to sudden restarts, this has never happened to me.

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