Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: >> I can recommend the laptop as a reasonable candidate for Linux. Apart from >> the need for proprietary drivers, which is something I blame nVidia for, it >> seems to work perfectly. > > IME, getting the nVidia driver to work is easy, but keeping the nVidia > driver working over time across upgrades is a real PITA...
In what sense? What problems have you had? I've had Nvidia cards in my desktop for a very long time and I've had very little problems. One was getting a very new GPU recently (2021), it took a while to get something going. I think eventually nvidia-driver was updated in backports and that brought support. But for a few weeks I was running with my then CPU's integrated Intel GPU in Debian. These days, nvidia-kernel has been updated in Debian Stable so I could probably run Stable kernel now. Should look into that when I have some time.
