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cors24438yand here's a video of linus torvalds giving nvidia the finger for their lack of driver support:
https://youtu.be/iYWzMvlj2RQ -
Your "non-tech" friend knows what a driver is? and is concerned about writing one?
... that is not a non-tech friend.
Non-tech friends ask you to fix their laptop. After asking them for an hour if they've downloaded anything unusual, you find out they googled "free antivirus" and downloaded the first app they came across.
... Then replies "But its an antivirus, its fine" -
I've had far more trouble with video drivers than wireless drivers the last few years. Ubuntu 16.04 dropping the proprietary AMD driver made Chrome totally unusable until I switched to the dev builds of the radeon driver.
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