Re: latest testing update broke my laptop
>>> I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart from
>>> the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame nVidia for, it
>>> seems to work perfectly.
>> IME, getting the nVidia driver to work is easy, but keeping the nVidia
>> driver working over time across upgrades is a real PITA, and to the
>> extent that most other machines should also be fully supported, I read
>> what you wrote as "better choose something else" :-)
> I have been using nVIDIA Optimus based systems for several years, with
> Ubuntu Linux and now with Linux Mint, without any problems, since, when
This is a Debian mailing list, tho. So your experience with other
distributions is not directly relevant.
> only Ubuntu (12.04) had the drivers for NVIDIA Optimus,
[...]
> The problem is NOT with nVIDIA.
AFAIK it is, because they insist on doing things their way (and keeping
their code proprietary), thus imposing more work on the rest of the
infrastructure, which causes things like "only Ubuntu (12.04) had the
drivers for NVIDIA Optimus" because only Ubuntu had the
motivation&manpower to handle it quickly enough.
> And, I am now running different computers, with different nVIDIA
> configurations - some with Optimus, some without Optimus, with no problems
> relating to nVIDIA.
What would it take for a problem to be attributed to nVidia?
Stefan
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