Yeah. Why would anyone expect one of the most popular video cards in the world to work in Linux. Those idiots.
Just to be clear. I understand why a proprietary card may not work. It isn’t Linux’s responsibility to make it work. However, what isn’t acceptable is for the automated update system of an OS to break a working system. Proprietary driver or not. The update system should have thrown up some very strong warnings that proceeding would break the system.
This would implies the package management system to know the inner working of nvidia drivers so it can warn users when updates would break it. How one’s implement it?
The distro should be testing the driver within their update system before including it in their repo. The package should include metadata about system settings that could potentially break the system.
Distro makers have test machines to test their packages before pushing them out, but they can only cover popular and common hardware. Expecting them to test it on all graphic card permutations is too much considering most distros are released for free and maintained by volunteers, especially since nvidia cards aren’t cheap anymore.
You bought an Nvidia graphics card.
Yeah. Why would anyone expect one of the most popular video cards in the world to work in Linux. Those idiots.
Just to be clear. I understand why a proprietary card may not work. It isn’t Linux’s responsibility to make it work. However, what isn’t acceptable is for the automated update system of an OS to break a working system. Proprietary driver or not. The update system should have thrown up some very strong warnings that proceeding would break the system.
This would implies the package management system to know the inner working of nvidia drivers so it can warn users when updates would break it. How one’s implement it?
The distro should be testing the driver within their update system before including it in their repo. The package should include metadata about system settings that could potentially break the system.
Distro makers have test machines to test their packages before pushing them out, but they can only cover popular and common hardware. Expecting them to test it on all graphic card permutations is too much considering most distros are released for free and maintained by volunteers, especially since nvidia cards aren’t cheap anymore.
I know, shame on me. Its like i wasnt on linux when i bought this computer
Pretty much sums up every thing