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Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April (www.theverge.com)

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nvidia is fine and has always been fine, it just hasn't been ideal. I've used Nvidia GPUs on Linux for >10 years, and it has worked well.

The main issues are (and have always been):

kernel/driver mismatch - pretty much only an issue on rolling releases
late support for new Linux graphics stack features - Wayland recently, but that's a bit better now

If you use a release based distro and don't need to be on the bleeding edge (describes pretty much everyone), Nvidia is fine.

I switched to AMD a couple years ago because they offered better value and I needed an upgrade anyway, Linux compatibility was a nice value add.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Back before AMD bought ATI (and during the transition) nvidia was actually much better than ATI. For my previous desktop I specifically bought an nvidia card for the better Linux support.

I also wasn't so worried about my laptop having an nvidia GPU either. And then it kept crashing after being suspended to RAM. Stopped after switching to the integrated Intel graphics. Sadly nVidia doesn't care about old or laptop graphics.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 4 points 1 day ago

Absolutely! I remember having ATI embedded graphics on my motherboard and it was more annoying than Nvidia's drivers. Nvidia didn't really change since then, it's just that AMD submitted their driver to the kernel, so newer software tends to work better with it.

dGPUs on laptops have always sucked on Linux, this isn't new, nor is it necessarily a problem specific to Nvidia. Graphics switching on Linux just isn't smooth, which is why I haven't bought a laptop with a dGPU since switching to Linux. I hear it works, I just don't see the point. Get a cheap laptop with an AMD APU and you can play casual games on it, and then build a cheap desktop PC with the savings and your experience will be much better. It'll probably cost a bit more at the start, but your laptop will last much longer and you can upgrade the desktop more cheaply.