about once a decade i get this morbid curiosity to install some relatively vanilla linux distro on my windows desktop (as opposed to WSL or remote AWS boxes, where i normally encounter it). i feel it rising again… should i cave… or will i accidentally reformat my hdd/waste days
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On nVidia laptops, I have had numerous install failures, dist-upgrade failures, failures to actually get hardware acceleration, etc. It is extremely unreliable, and Ubuntu is actually the best here - most distros fail to even install on nVidia laptops without user intervention.
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I definitely have had to futz more than i would have liked on Ubuntu on my Thinkpad, but my latest GPU related breakage happened when windows auto updated the driver, but forgot to update the control panel shell extension, causing a black screen post login
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You assert that like I'm just wrong lol, like I say, ubuntu LTS is a lot better now than it used to be, nvidia drivers included
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Because you are? It is not "solid", period. It may be _better_ than it used to be, but it is absolutely not solid, even if "solid" just means "as likely to install properly as Windows".
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