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State of the Nvidia open source driver in late 2023? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

I'm in the market for a new big desktop replacement gaming laptop, and looking at the market there are almost exclusively Nvidia powered.

I was wondering about the state of their new open-source driver. Can I run a plain vanilla kernel with only open source / upstream packages and drivers and expect to get a good experience? How is battery life, performance? Does DRI Prime and Vulkan based GPU selection "just work"?

The only alternative new for my market is a device with an Intel Arc A730M, which I currently think is going to be the one I end up buying.

Edit 19/11: Thanks for all the feedback everyone! Since the reactions were quite mixed - "it works perfectly for me" vs "it's a unmaintainable mess that breaks all the time", I'm going to err on the side of caution and look elsewhere. I found a used laptop with an AMD Radeon RX 6700M, which I'm going to check out the coming days. If not, I've also found Alienware sells their m16 laptop with an RX 7600M XT, which might be a good buy for me (I currently still rock an Alienware 17R1 from 2013 with an MXM card from a decomissioned industrial computer in it).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean that's fine if that's your opinion. But while they may be a mistake for you, I've found them to be a great compromise and enjoyed several of them for the past 10 years.

I have a normal laptop, a ThinkPad X1 Nano, which I love. I also have a desktop with an RX 6800, but I can only use that in my office, a cramped space which has poor Internet and is in an inconvenient spot in our house.

I'm looking for something that I can keep in the living room, and set up on our living room table to play some games with friends. I've had that desktop for almost 3 years and yet I've done most of my gaming since I had it on a 2013 Alienware laptop with an upgraded MXM graphics card.

Different solutions for different people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Simply put the desktop in the room you wish to game in

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not an option, there's no room in our living room to put a desktop and monitor permanently.