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    [–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Nah, the last time this user tried Linux was probably 2005. You can get to a desktop and install proprietary drivers from the app store relatively painlessly on most distros.

    [–] knexcar@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Nope, last Christmas I struggled to get Linux Mint to play a Steam game using Proton. Booting would lead to a crash, adding some flags would lead to the game being incredibly laggy. Mint had an option for proprietary drivers, but the game would crash regardless of the flags. In the end, turns out Mint was downloading the wrong drivers, and I had to manually download the correct ones from Nvidia’a website to finally get the game to work with average performance.

    It took multiple hours of troubleshooting during my one Christmas vacation of the year. Meanwhile my brother, who had an identical laptop playing the same game on Windows, ran it flawlessly with great performance.

    [–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

    I'm sorry to hear that, dual graphics can be a pain. If you feel like trying it again I'd love to recommend pop os, it should handle dual graphics out of the box. It's just something that isn't well supported thanks to Nvidia's proprietary graphics.

    [–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

    It is interesting how many people reports that distros does not work out-of-the-box. While for me, most things work. It's hard to partition things correctly but that's that..