• @derbolle@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    i dont know what you are using but the general linux experience hasn’t been like this in years. and even if there is a problem now and then a bit of googling generally is all it needs. the one thing you cannot get around is malware like kernel level anticheats. that’s windows only.

    having a backup is good advice no matter what system you use

    • @someacnt@sh.itjust.works
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      11 month ago

      Yeah, same in my experience: updates do not breaks things in debian-derivatives at least. That’s how I managed “well” without backup. That said, linux support is certainly hit-or-miss, which is usually the bigger problem.

    • Coelacanth
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      11 month ago

      Isn’t best practice to install your system on a different partition than /home anyway? Back when I used Linux (and the experience was a bit like they described) I’d just nuke the system partition and reinstall if I fucked something up.

    • @spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 month ago

      I don’t know, the last time I tried Linux the fucking Nvidia driver fucked my system a couple times before I said fuck it and went back to 10.

      Going to try again with my amd card at some point

      • @moleverine@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        AMD support is baked into the kernel, so you really don’t have to do anything unless you’re on bleeding edge hardware and the drivers are in a version of the kernel your distribution doesn’t ship yet.

          • @f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz
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            31 month ago

            Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, can’t control what support Nvidia offers for their own products, but he often shows his opinion of them: