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Fortunately, this fucking windows partition I only keep for VR with my shitty Oculus Rift CV1 reminds me how fucked up the alternative is. I can't fucking wait to get a Steam Frame and ditch it.
Out of curiosity what were the old and new GPUs?
That's a particularly lengthy effort, even for Windows, so I'm wondering if you switched from nvidia to AMD or something major like that. Only thing I would have done differently is uninstall the old graphics driver before switching the hardware - but that is perhaps a very old expectation, so I don't know that it'd be reasonable in your case
The one time i borked the graphics wss the arch firmware thing.
1 weekend away arrived back late sunday to show my daughter her new graphics tab did an update rebooted like aclown and voilla no display.
After that i got rid of arch (endeavour) then in stalled arch (cachy) and life has been good.
Stuff can break and firmwsre changes do it beautifully.
Read the docs
The one thing I have to adjust to is the fact that my drivers just update with regular system updates. What do you mean I don't have to open the card software and check for drivers all the time.
That will be $6000, please.
When stuff goes sideways it's annoying regardless. In Linux it feels easier to really get in deep and fix what needs fixing, but windows has its registry and you often end up using some random utilities that may or may not work correctly to get what you need installed.
Unless you buy the newest Nvidia, and then have to wait half a year for the drivers
Glad that I'm so poor this will never be an issue in our household.
Gret greeted is my new favorite thing to say.
Im not on Linux yet, unfortunately, but I don't get it? Linux doesn't require drivers?
On AMD no, on nVidia if you want to game you need their proprietary drivers AFAIK, but I've always been on AMD so....
Drivers are part of the kernel.
But if you want to manually install your own drivers (say Nvidia proprietary ones) god forbid that’s an obnoxious process. It makes windows driver hell look quaint.
You don't want that. Never install the drivers from the nvidia website on linux. The distros always ship their own and those usually get updated regularly as long as you aren't using Debian
I had the exact opposite experience on Mint when I changed from Nvidia to AMD. Switched the GPUs and only my main monitor in my multimonitor setup was outputting signal. That lead to annoying rabbit hole and I still haven't finished after several months (suspend still doesn't work every time)
That is one of the first things I noticed when I've switched between ATI/AMD and Nvidia early in my Linux usage time. Now I've swapped between Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with problems in the past few years
I’m happy to see that your experience was troublefree, but I wouldn’t want people to think that Linux is always smooth sailing as it clearly isn’t always the case.
To be honest, even if I love my Steam Deck and my other computers, nothing beats a Playstation when it comes to easy gaming.
Monado and envision will run a cv1 on Linux.