Your info is out of date. Nvidia drivers on Linux are trivial to install these days. They provide a deb repo (and others) with both the proprietary and open source drivers. Add, install, done.
It has? My laptop and desktop haven’t had any problems with it. They’ve been suspending and resuming just fine.
I did have one problem where on my desktop, the latest version caused everything to go really slowly, but downgrading fixed it. But that’s part of using the latest drivers, instead of a stable version. You can get the same problems using the latest version of any in-tree driver, or the kernel itself.
I found the experience bad when i tried bazzite on a spare drive to test it out on my nvidia desktop. NVIDIA legacy gpus that stopped getting updates and included in distros also a pain when it came to laptops for me with bugs coming out of sleep.
Meanwhile AMD and Intel laptops been trouble free throughout the years, so I’ve avoided getting NVIDIA GPU laptops.
Your info is out of date. Nvidia drivers on Linux are trivial to install these days. They provide a deb repo (and others) with both the proprietary and open source drivers. Add, install, done.
“Done”, until the complexity of being an out of tree kernel driver causes yet another issue… suspend has been broken for months on 615+ series
It has? My laptop and desktop haven’t had any problems with it. They’ve been suspending and resuming just fine.
I did have one problem where on my desktop, the latest version caused everything to go really slowly, but downgrading fixed it. But that’s part of using the latest drivers, instead of a stable version. You can get the same problems using the latest version of any in-tree driver, or the kernel itself.
It doesn’t sound like you’re using your laptop for gaming
Nonetheless, having fixable problems are still problems that will be a hard barrier for prospective users to adopt.
I found the experience bad when i tried bazzite on a spare drive to test it out on my nvidia desktop. NVIDIA legacy gpus that stopped getting updates and included in distros also a pain when it came to laptops for me with bugs coming out of sleep.
Meanwhile AMD and Intel laptops been trouble free throughout the years, so I’ve avoided getting NVIDIA GPU laptops.