the wifi driver
Holy fuck, really? The lack of working wifi or gpu drivers is why I never stayed with Linux for daily use outside of my media server box. And the last time I tried using it for my main gaming PC was over 10 years ago.
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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So I’ve gone back to linux for my daily but holy hell the driver support is very much still not there, especially for gaming.
The wifi driver is flakey and drops connection requiring a disable/re-enable every so often, power management doesn’t work quite right with sleep mode locking up the system every so often, keyboard no use of most of the advanced features, same for the mouse and never mind about the other various nits that I end up finding that honestly don’t have much info because there’s no official driver support from the companies, just mostly wonderful people who are making things work but don’t have that industrial knowledge and limited time.
Still, absolutely no regrets in moving back to Linux because Windows has been just horrible since 7 and 11, which I still have to use at work, is just absolute crap.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 1 week ago
GPU drivers, at least on AMD’s side, have been solid and Nvidia has been generally decent and getting a lot better with the new process they’re doing for the newer cards. But my scenario might be more unique to the MB implementation of the wifi chipset since when I posted on other boards, others with different MB’s/cards using the same driver aren’t seeing the same issues.
And of course the other downside is that the wifi 7 driver for that chip is not available for windows 10 and is windows 11 only and I do not want to use that as my daily even if the driver is solid and honestly I’m not a huge perpetual online gamer so it’s not impacting my ability to use and enjoy my Bazzite instance.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Standby with nvidia gpus is broken still, but everything external I’ve plugged into my system works first time.
Mildren@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Nvidia works fine on my end, just installed the latest drivers and been running fine since I switched
fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Is it? Got a 3080 and my pc goes to sleep and wakes up without issues. Or do you mean a specific mode? I just use whatever cachy with KDE uses as standard.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
2080S currently, though I’ve had others before, can’t wake up from standby with the power button or USB. On the other hand, once it’s in standby, it’ll turn itself back on after 30 minutes or so. The firmware on nvidia cards has always played badly though. I had an 8800 that I’d have to turn on several times each day before it would POST.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Dunno about this wifi driver stuff. The only issue I had with my own was the flakey hardware and it didn’t work in windows or Linux so I can’t fault Linux for that.
IzzuThug@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’m not sure what distro you’re using or what hardware you have. But you must either have bad luck or choose bad cheap hardware.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’ve been using wifi on Linux since the ndiswrapper days. I haven’t had a wifi issue in many many years using Lenovo, Dell, Panasonic laptops and various self built servers (but they tend to be wired)