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Nvidia's software is also pretty atrocious, in my opinion. The output of various tools is cryptic, updates regularly result in a totally broken system, and things often stop working for no discernible reason. Nvidia GPUs are always the most finnicky part of a system.

A modern Linux system should have uptime measured in years with minimal effort. A modern Linux system with Nvidia GPUs will have uptime of weeks with a lot of fuss.

(I'm no expert, just someone who's managed a number of PCs and a few servers.)



Right, but they can get away with that because they have essentially no competition.

With that said, Pop!OS does a really nice job of handling the Nvidia software stack - I've been running it on the laptop mentioned above for several years with no issues (though I don't leave my machines on 24/7).




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