Using nvidia drivers on Arch for years now, what seems to be the problem, officer?
> don't expect software features like their special sauce screen recorder, or that trick where you can get a free camera inside a game, or anything else packed into their gaming toolkit on Windows.
Yeah their desktop-software on Linux is clearly the same stuff they had in 2004, right down to the Qt 3.1 version it's built with and the gamma ramp editor.
> Oh, and accept a very high idle power draw if you choose not to go with Windows.
Power management worked exactly identically to Windows with every nVidia card I've ever seen on Linux.
> a laptop
I think this is the actual salient issue here. Firmware quality varies wildly on laptops, not just for stuff like this, but even much more... basic things. Intel AX2xx wifi cards cause crashes and freezes in both Windows and Linux when used in some laptops (Thinkpads, namely), but are perfectly fine and dandy in others, or on desktops.
I suspect firmware quality correlates strongly with how much the OEM decided to write, which is to say, it gets worse with every line of code added by the OEM. I think that's why Thinkpads, HPs, Dells etc. are so notorious for their shitty firmware and trashy ECs, while practical no-names have none of these problems, simply because they're more or less just sticking the Intel (or AMD) reference platform in a box - and suddenly it "just works".
Still reasonable
> don't use too many screens,
Is there too many?
> don't use a laptop
Never bought one with a dGPU due to NVH concerns
> don't run a recent kernel
Using nvidia drivers on Arch for years now, what seems to be the problem, officer?
> don't expect software features like their special sauce screen recorder, or that trick where you can get a free camera inside a game, or anything else packed into their gaming toolkit on Windows.
Yeah their desktop-software on Linux is clearly the same stuff they had in 2004, right down to the Qt 3.1 version it's built with and the gamma ramp editor.
> Oh, and accept a very high idle power draw if you choose not to go with Windows.
Power management worked exactly identically to Windows with every nVidia card I've ever seen on Linux.
> a laptop
I think this is the actual salient issue here. Firmware quality varies wildly on laptops, not just for stuff like this, but even much more... basic things. Intel AX2xx wifi cards cause crashes and freezes in both Windows and Linux when used in some laptops (Thinkpads, namely), but are perfectly fine and dandy in others, or on desktops.
I suspect firmware quality correlates strongly with how much the OEM decided to write, which is to say, it gets worse with every line of code added by the OEM. I think that's why Thinkpads, HPs, Dells etc. are so notorious for their shitty firmware and trashy ECs, while practical no-names have none of these problems, simply because they're more or less just sticking the Intel (or AMD) reference platform in a box - and suddenly it "just works".