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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Replying to @mmalex
It is fraught with peril on laptops, and I would absolutely not recommend it there. Desktops may be better.
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Replying to @cmuratori @mmalex
Been running (L)ubuntu LTS on many laptops for over 5 years, it's pretty solid these days
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Replying to @BR15370086 @mmalex
No, it isn't. If you happen to have a non-nVidia-GPU laptop, perhaps. But most game development laptops are nVidia laptops.
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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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My going hypothesis for a decade or so has been that Linux will never actually get more reliable drivers, but Windows will continue to get less reliable drivers, so sometime around 2030 Linux will be equivalently stable on average without ever having improved :(
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