My Weekend Linux Misadventure
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@Dashrender said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
@kamidon said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
Ah though then again, I don't think it matters which option you choose for nvidia drivers, every install seems to be the exact same size and then the application chooses a driver for you based on your driver ID...or something like that.
Damn - that's what I would expect. that's how Windows generally works - you don't install a 100% specific driver for your 'exact' card - you install a driver that has dozens if not hundreds of cards supported, and it installs the bits needed upon detection of the hardware.
Of course JB will call me a moron now for thinking this is acceptable.
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@Dashrender said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
@Dashrender said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
@kamidon said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
Ah though then again, I don't think it matters which option you choose for nvidia drivers, every install seems to be the exact same size and then the application chooses a driver for you based on your driver ID...or something like that.
Damn - that's what I would expect. that's how Windows generally works - you don't install a 100% specific driver for your 'exact' card - you install a driver that has dozens if not hundreds of cards supported, and it installs the bits needed upon detection of the hardware.
Of course JB will call me a moron now for thinking this is acceptable.
He's really just flirting though
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This may have been mentioned, but make sure your laptop doesn't have an Intel GPU and an NVIDIA one. That gives me fits every time.
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@JaredBusch said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
@kamidon said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
What if...Linux was choosing a mobile driver and not the full version?
That's not how anything works on any OS.
Oh operating systems don't install incorrect drivers from time to time?
Heh, I beg to differ.
Now maybe Linux is better about it, but I've had plenty of Windows f-ups of wonky driver installs.
However, it's incredibly unlikely and I realize that. I'll admit I've reached a bit too far there. -
@dafyre said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
This may have been mentioned, but make sure your laptop doesn't have an Intel GPU and an NVIDIA one. That gives me fits every time.
Nah just nvidia, I double checked during troubleshooting.
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This thread brings to mind Linus Torvalds when asked about Nvidia "F*** Nvidia" was his response. He doesn't like Nvidia and what they pull with their proprietary drivers. Most linux users don't, because of these same sort of issues @kamidon.
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In my experience ATI / AMD isn't any better. I've got an older HP Probook with ATI/Intel switchable graphics that was removed from support in the proprietary drivers a couple of years back.
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@notverypunny said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
In my experience ATI / AMD isn't any better. I've got an older HP Probook with ATI/Intel switchable graphics that was removed from support in the proprietary drivers a couple of years back.
I though the ATI/AMD GPUs had decent open source drivers?
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@travisdh1 said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
This thread brings to mind Linus Torvalds when asked about Nvidia "F*** Nvidia" was his response. He doesn't like Nvidia and what they pull with their proprietary drivers. Most linux users don't, because of these same sort of issues @kamidon.
Yeah I guess Nvidia's a real as$hole when it comes to their drivers huh...
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@dafyre said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
@notverypunny said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
In my experience ATI / AMD isn't any better. I've got an older HP Probook with ATI/Intel switchable graphics that was removed from support in the proprietary drivers a couple of years back.
I though the ATI/AMD GPUs had decent open source drivers?
Might the case in general, but in my specific case the manual control / switching has been depreciated in the closed source and was never cleanly implemented in the opensource ones that I've seen. But to be perfectly honest I haven't put a whole lot of time into seeing if I can get it to work. The guides I've skimmed all seem to reference scripts and rebooting the x server... I'm not using that machine for anything that needs that level of tweaking so it's nothing more than an example of discontinued hardware support....
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@kamidon said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
@travisdh1 said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
This thread brings to mind Linus Torvalds when asked about Nvidia "F*** Nvidia" was his response. He doesn't like Nvidia and what they pull with their proprietary drivers. Most linux users don't, because of these same sort of issues @kamidon.
Yeah I guess Nvidia's a real as$hole when it comes to their drivers huh...
They are a bit. Even on Windows their driver situation is pretty awful.
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@kamidon said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
@JaredBusch said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
@kamidon said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
What if...Linux was choosing a mobile driver and not the full version?
That's not how anything works on any OS.
Oh operating systems don't install incorrect drivers from time to time?
Heh, I beg to differ.
Now maybe Linux is better about it, but I've had plenty of Windows f-ups of wonky driver installs.
However, it's incredibly unlikely and I realize that. I'll admit I've reached a bit too far there.No, an OS never installs the incorrect version of a driver.
It 100% installs the driver it is instructed to install for the hardware it detected, by the reference information in the driver files provided by whoever creates them.
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@JaredBusch Yeaaaaaaaaaah, good point. Seems pretty straightfoward.
One example I have where correct hardware drivers are installed, but the drivers didn't work in the given environment are HP 401 printers. The driver designed for the machine for whatever reason just wouldn't work. User prints, program crashes or freezes for up to five minutes.
We install HP Universal drivers though, issue is resolved.
Was bizarre, but yeah it was still the correctly chosen driver for the device, just junk software I suppose.
You're right, I was wrong.
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If using Ubuntu, you should use 18.04 LTS. Nearly everything in Ubuntu is tested LTS.
I was surprised how much shit isnt supported / tested on 19.04 vs 18.04
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@IRJ said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
If using Ubuntu, you should use 18.04 LTS. Nearly everything in Ubuntu is tested LTS.
I was surprised how much shit isnt supported / test on 19.04 vs 18.0I feel the opposite (and was told the opposite by Canonical.) All their testing and support goes to the current, not the LTS, releases. Yes, third parties oddly tend to test with outdated stuff more, but it's not the approach that Ubuntu themselves recommend. And while it may get more testing, the current gets more updates, which especially in stuff like this I think outweighs testing.
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@scottalanmiller said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
@IRJ said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
If using Ubuntu, you should use 18.04 LTS. Nearly everything in Ubuntu is tested LTS.
I was surprised how much shit isnt supported / test on 19.04 vs 18.0I feel the opposite (and was told the opposite by Canonical.) All their testing and support goes to the current, not the LTS, releases. Yes, third parties oddly tend to test with outdated stuff more, but it's not the approach that Ubuntu themselves recommend. And while it may get more testing, the current gets more updates, which especially in stuff like this I think outweighs testing.
I hear where you're coming from and see the logic for systems that are only using stuff from canonical's own repos, but my experience has been that all of the 3rd party stuff seems (seemed? it's been a while since I've done much with 3rd party apps) to be tested and optimized for the LTS stream.
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No matter how much the community wants to deny it, LTS is better supported. Whether you are talking CentOS vs Fedora or Ubuntu 18.04 vs 19.04, LTS is preferred and better supported by 3rd parties.
You almost never see instances where Fedora server is supported and CentOS isn't. Same thing with Ubuntu.
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@IRJ said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
No matter how much the community wants to deny it, LTS is better supported. Whether you are talking CentOS vs Fedora or Ubuntu 18.04 vs 19.04, LTS is preferred and better supported by 3rd parties.
You almost never see instances where Fedora server is supported and CentOS isn't. Same thing with Ubuntu.
Yeah, "should be" and "is" are totally different things.
One could also argue you shouldn't choose third party software that doesn't support the more up to date OS versions as well, but it is what it is.
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@IRJ said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
No matter how much the community wants to deny it, LTS is better supported. Whether you are talking CentOS vs Fedora or Ubuntu 18.04 vs 19.04, LTS is preferred and better supported by 3rd parties.
You almost never see instances where Fedora server is supported and CentOS isn't. Same thing with Ubuntu.
If you think about - it makes sense. The 3rd parties want to spend time on their products - not testing and re-testing every 3-6 months for some new release.
We're now running into that issue on Windows. MS's update cycle has thrown software vendors into a fit! Two massive updates a year? Shit, software vendors could barely keep up with once every 3 years, and now it's every 6 months?
There are rumors now that MS might be moving to a Tick/Tock setup with Windows, Major update in Fall, minor update in Spring - or vice versa.
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@Obsolesce said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
@IRJ said in My Weekend Linux Misadventure:
No matter how much the community wants to deny it, LTS is better supported. Whether you are talking CentOS vs Fedora or Ubuntu 18.04 vs 19.04, LTS is preferred and better supported by 3rd parties.
You almost never see instances where Fedora server is supported and CentOS isn't. Same thing with Ubuntu.
Yeah, "should be" and "is" are totally different things.
One could also argue you shouldn't choose third party software that doesn't support the more up to date OS versions as well, but it is what it is.
But in reality it ends up being alot more then you think. It's not just software you purchase, but plenty of tools you use on a daily basis. It just snowballs when you realize how many things are impacting.
