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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by lawn on Saturday January 03, 2026 @01:51PM (#46480142)
> Gaming is the biggest thing that keeps me on Windows, followed by the fact that I use an Nvidia GPU

The Nvidia issue is overblown IMO. If you use their binary blobs it works pretty well.

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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by tavavex on Sunday January 04, 2026 @05:59PM (#46493290)
This is just a personal anecdote, but I was speaking from past experience. Perhaps things have improved now, but back when I seriously used Linux on my own PC, the 2-3 times when the system randomly stopped booting properly and had to be tinkered with for me to be able to do anything with my computer, all of these issues were caused by something (Nvidia) GPU-related.
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Re:Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 wi... by digiown on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:10AM (#46573873)
The situation is much better now. I've never had any issues with using the proprietary drivers on Arch on wayland in the past few years. If anything, AMD's drivers are noticeably more buggy.
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