• ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Well, my brother installed linux (mint) on more than 30 laptops that we were fixing to reuse. Im pretty sure none of them had any driver problems.

    Tbh, unless you have a NVIDIA graphics card, or are using arch*, driver issues almost never happen.

    *my personal thinkpads wifi board didn’t work in arch, but that may be because I had already borked that install completly.

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      3 days ago

      “Unless you have a computer in the 90% of users” is a hell of a dismissal.

      In fairness, thin-and-light media and web use laptops are a different story, but for desktop use? That’s a big stretch.

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        3 days ago

        My man, you think 90% of pcs have a graphics card at all? I live in a poor country, so does the majority of the worlds population, and almost no one has a graphics card here.

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          No, I think 90% of the ones that do have a dedicated GPU have a Nvidia one. That’s not an opinion, it’s data that’s widely available.

          It’s also, incidentally, just an example of one of the more egregious issues with the current state of Linux. It doesn’t mean it’s the only one.

          In any case, that’s not typically the space being discussed here. The advice generally is “get an AMD GPU”, not “we are assuming you’re on integrated graphics”.