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Never had issues with nvidia :p.. feels like im the only one
It's not just you. Perhaps it depends on the distro?
I just had to click around a little when setting up Ubuntu 22.04 and it's done.
I currently use pop!_os and that just came with them, but even then, most other distros I tried it was one command or one click in the package manager and done
I know the open source ones are a lot more finicky so maybe also depends on what you get :3
Zorin comes with the Nvidia drivers if you want them
It's mostly when you're trying to optimize for power on a non standard distro. By default, they're kinda a power hog but you can sorta turn off the gpu when not in use, it's just fininky because Nvidia doesn't want open source drivers that can go that low level. Thankfully don't have to worry about it anymore after getting a non-Nvidia laptop for my latest daily.
Funny thing is.. I was gonna get my PC with an AMD card, but because the one I wanted was out of stock I got upgraded (depending on how you want to look at it) to an nvidia one :3
I may go AMD next time I swap it, but as I've not had any problems as of yet, im not in a major rush
My advice is to generally opt for integrated on mobile, unless you absolutely need them. I did on my last computer (training ml models can often be sped up with Cuda cores), but the trade off was it breaking three times when updating my Nvidia drivers (had to chroot in an manually update, huge pain to deal with), so I specifically went away from Nvidia drivers on my latest laptop.
Same here. I've always grabbed the latest drivers from the Nvidia page and installed the dot run file manually from a command line. From there everything just works.
As long as I revert to the open source driver before doing major OS upgrades I haven't had issues either in years. Last time I tried AMD though it was a shit show.