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@Linux I'll take your word for it :P just don't want my only non dying hdd to lose data and all.
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@Linux That's why I mentioned "only non dying drive". My external is dying it seems. But I guess it'll be stable enough until I can afford one.
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galena71727yInstalling the drivers manually always turned out bad for me. Try it within the drivers tab in the settings.
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@Linux My Internet is too slow for it. I'm pretty much the most broke dev around until I graduate.
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Nvidia drivers suck on my mint cinnamon. The laptop battery lasts 5 hours on windows and only 2 on Linux. Even though the processor performs no work, the GPU makes my fans run wild. Luckily there is always the integrated GPU and I can work in peace.
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@cyberlord64 well, does performance increase at all despite the harder work? I'm on a desktop so not such an issue with power.
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bhedia2327yI just installed Ubuntu. In the early days of my Linux journey, I tried downloading and manually installing Nvidia drivers. Won't recommend that. Instead, through software and drivers gui settings select Nvidia drivers. I found that to be a much stable choice and I see no drain issues. Do share your eventual journey and experience.
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PacRat39907ythe proprietary drivers have caused black screens for me. if there's an open source driver available, those usually work a lot better
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@TheCapeGreek Not really. Same performance, higher draw. It could be a quirk on my GPU model but I think that not much effort went into the driver. Considering that I get a driver update every month or so on windows and haven't seen one for the past 6 months on Linux is pretty much proof of that statement
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@cyberlord64 Fair enough. As long as you can do your ordinary tasks I suppose it's fine.
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I read that installing Nvidia drivers on Linux is usually a bad idea because they break if your OS updates. Is that still a thing? I still have a GTS 250 so would like to squeeze what little performance I can out of it.
I'm on Mint Cinnamon as of yesterday.
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