• Matriks404
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    13 hours ago

    Why what? Why Debian? Why Nvidia? Or White Nvidia 550 drivers?

    • Why Debian: Because I am most familiar with Debian-based distros, and I don’t generally need latest stuff for anything. I really wanted to familiarize myself with the base for other distros, and I am fine with it.

    • Why Nvidia: Because I chose Nvidia when I built my computer (it was running Windows 10 at that moment) and I never upgraded it, and given that I don’t have integrated graphics on my system I am stuck with it, unless I upgrade.

    • Why Nvidia 550 drivers: Because these are the drviers that are in the latest Debian release (13 - trixie) and I don’t want to break my system by installing experimental drivers or official ones from Nvidia. I also only have problems on Wayland Plasma session where HW accelerated apps and games have big graphical issues, but relogging to X11 session is fine for now. I don’t really play video games, except retro and indie stuff anyway.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      9 hours ago

      The reason I’m asking is that you can buy old AMD GPUs on eBay or equivalent sites for not a lot of money. Sure it involves spending but you will never need to deal with nvidia again