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[–] -2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

since you're on a laptop with a dedicated nvidia GPU DO NOT use Mint, Ubuntu, or hell anything Debian based. it won't go well for you.

As other's have said Nobara, Bazzite, Cachy, or Pop

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't know why people keep saying this. I wonder if it's an old thing? I've got three people with dedicated Nvidia gpus on mint and they're just fine. The driver manager just works.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Well Mint is technically fine, right? Their Nvidia support is 1st party, so it should work out of the box.

    Pretty sure Ubuntu does too.

    Debian, specifically, does not though. And I'm not sure how 'behind' Mint and Ubuntu are on their DE and Nvidia driver packages these days, which could be an issue sometimes. But I think many remember Ubuntu/Mint from older days when they were worse in this regard.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Deb based on nvidia always went well for me.

    * Shrug *

    I ran pure Devuan for a couple years on such hardware. (Besides that, all Suse, Sabayon, Gentoo, BedrockLinux, VoidLinux, all happy, did go well.).

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