No technical reason btw, just because “fuck you”.

I’m pretty sure that’s how most corporate software stays afloat.

Tvwm ought to be good enough for anyone!

It’s also been decades since I saw one. I think only people that tinker with kernel code get to see it nowadays.

Maybe you should have clicked on ‘nvidia repository’ in Yast. That’s pretty much all there is to it.

Doesn’t it also only support Microsoft Office formats?

The number of people not from the US is actually surprisingly large.

You don’t have to install Ubuntu on those laptops. I don’t really understand his point. He wants snaps?

The terminal killed my dog and raped my wife!

Same here. That’s pretty much a myth. I also have a couple laptops that still have a small windows partition and never had any issues.

That happened ages ago and gets blindly parroted to this day. I’m fairly convinced it’s the same with the nVidia stories.

With browsers it added up to a few seconds of difference per day. It was completely preposterous.

Burma was switching to metric. The US’s club is getting smaller.

The system is in Unicode throughout, so it can handle any language, whatever it’s set to. The only thing to check is input. Maybe use a compose key, and or switch to international qwerty.

Whenever I install Linux on someone’s computer, the first thi that they ask is always “why aren’t the corners properly rounded? I can’t use this!”

(No, this has never happened, but it would be funny, I’d get to smack them over the head)

Packt books are typically quite bad. Maybe not all, but it’s probably safe to assume they aren’t great.

I found them atrocious, but maybe it’s me. The cookies don’t taste like anything really identifiable, the paste is just sugar.

It’s like Oreos. I think it’s things that are cultural. You probably can’t get into it once your taste has already been shaped. But if you grew up with it, it’s different. We probably all have such things at home. Although typically not from the horrifying US big food conglomerates, which maybe makes them a bit less atrocious.

The drivers are just as buggy as the Windows versions honestly.

Didn’t they say that the core driver code was the same anyway ? (which would make sense)

They’ve mostly worked as advertised. One problem they’ve had was switching from external to embedded GPUs on laptops. I think that’s fixed now.

My desktops have all had nVidia cards for more than 20 years with no real issues. It’s a meme really.

kind of a bug deal

Maybe that’s why it’s still in beta.