👏 ALWAYS 👏 CHECK 👏 FOR 👏 HARDWARE 👏 COMPATIBILITY 👏 IF 👏 YOU 👏 PLAN/USE 👏 LINUX 👏

Skrew you man, I'm a buy ma Nvidia Card anyway!

@C0D4 Just don't buy first gen ryzen, and I'll be happy

I haven't taken a serious look at compatibility in almost twenty years. Pretty much everything, "just works." Can't account for pebkac errors though.

@bahua It's a skill you need, it's more of a seatbelt kind of things. You probably won't use it whole your life, but if you do, you'll be glad you did.

@HitWRight Huh? I've been running a Ryzen 5 1600 along with a GTX 1060 for two years now and I have no problems.

@ManicRobot-- Did you have to tweak the power levels of the cpu to exclude c6 state?

@HitWRight what

Linux is not the fault, it's your distribution shipping old kernels.
If you want to test the newest hardware you need the newest kernel. So install a newer one, a newer version of your distribution or get another distribution with a shorter release cycle.

@Benedikt I am not sure about that. As much as I'm reading up on the forums it's the kernel issue which will not be fixed, because the foundation can't be arsed and the developers just disable the c6 state and continue living on. A lot of distros already incorporate the hack, sadly Fedora does not.

@ManicRobot-- which distro do you use?

If anyone is interested, the problem occurs if the cpu is barely doing anything, then certain cores are shutdown, the kernel doesn't have a check to get them back up, and slowly but surely your PC just freezes.

@HitWRight Never happened to me. I've overclocked my CPU pretty long ago so I can't remember exactly what I did.

@HitWRight Arch Linux

most hardware just works.
but I made the stupid uninformed decision to get an optimus nvidia laptop.

thanks to that I have to pick between either
* buggy optimus linux tricks
* bypass optimus and use the gpu all the time = battery overuse

so I agree with op, check hardware, avoid shitty vendors.

I would not go as far as saying that linux support sucks nor imply that it's linux' fault

y u clapping tho?

@GurvirBhogal oh I think he used too much twinstaddit. his brain got damaged and he can only speak using some prearranged sentences

@GurvirBhogal I went mad for trying to diagnose that shit

@jesustricks Hmm maybe

@HitWRight we can help u bro u are not alone.

I've been using Linux for close to 10 years now on 20+ devices (excluding servers) and I once had to install a printer driver (and Brother provides easy to install drivers for Linux as well!), except for that, it just works till now.

Hell, even my 6 outputs graphics (yes, I have 6 screens) card just works out of the box!

@linuxxx You're quite lucky, considering many people still struggling with Nvidia driver support. Also recently I've found an interesting blog, which seems true mostly (some issues are indeed fixed, but a lot are still there)

https://itvision.altervista.org/why...

@HitWRight I would blame that more on Nvidia than Linux, if they could either provide proper drivers or open source the goddamn firmware...

Scanned through the article and while 2-3 things apply to my current system (although I don't use those features so it doesn't matter for me personally), I also see some stuff which does work perfectly for me and is marked as broken in the list!

@linuxxx yeah Fuck nvidia ;D
Also a lot of problems are because of certain distro/hardware configurations so I'm not surprised you don't have problems. Overall I love Linux, I just have a certain feeling that in 20-30 years we will move to a micro kernel architecture and the Linux core will be swapped.

@HitWRight Oh I don't mind that at all haha. As long as it's FOSS I'm all up for new things!