sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia

Seriously though, this is still the same problem on windows. If you switch from AMD to Nvidia, it'll load a generic display driver until you install the Nvidia one either through windows updates (heavily outdated) or GeForce Now (heavy bloat).

At least Linux gives you Nouveau instead of throwing you into a 480p fallback output.

This is, specifically, the workflow for changing graphics cards manufacturers on windows, e.g. nVidia to AMD. If you're just going from one AMD card to another, or vice versa, generally you can just toss it in and reboot a few times, yes.

GPU manufacturers are fucking awful about actually uninstalling their bloatware shit on windows, and it often (potentially intentionally) interferes with other manufacturer's drivers (and sometimes their own, though that's less common these days.)

I agree that the original post is dishonest, but your solution is exactly the same as what they said with the exception that you knew it would be a problem so you downloaded the driver beforehand. Had you not known that would happen the series of misfortunes could have happened to you too.

I rolled my eyes real hard at this.

As a Linux supporter, this is absolutely not the case and it's going to piss off every person who swaps to Linux thinking it'll be this easy, and then when they're hit with reality, switches back to Windows.

This is how I am with mac os. I'm pretty knowledgeable about computers, so there are a lot of tasks I view as simple that I will attempt to do, only to have it fight me the whole way. I'm sure it's just that I don't know proper protocol, but it's annoying.

Example would be I had some photos on my phone I wanted to put on my mom's macbook. Okay, I have a cable, just plug it in. Well, it shows up but refuses to show files in usb mode. Okay, the photo editor saw the phone, but it was import all or nothing. It wouldn't let me send just one folder. Okay... So I can't copy/paste files from the phone, import is all or nothing. So... I ended up having to put the folder on a usb stick- but the the photo program wouldn't recognise that as a source to import from, so I had to copy the folder to the desktop and THEN import from that. Something that should have been relatively simple turned into a whole ordeal because it was designed for one type of workflow and I didn't know all the little tricks to get it to do what I wanted. I know that's on me for not knowing the easy way ro do it, but when the obvious option 'import' doesn't give me any real options, I have to figure it out.

I think in either direction, people forget how much becomes intuitive about their OS, and how quickly we can fall into "Works on my machine". I'm sure plenty of people have never had problems with their graphics drivers breaking things. But can you really say with full certainty that some random driver conflict couldn't possibly happen? What if they are swapping from AMD to Nvidia, does your confidence remain?

Everything is easy and intuitive when you know what is expected of you, and everything goes according to plan, but good luck if something gets fucky.

So, Windows is harder to use you say. And "incompetent" users should stick to Linux?

That's a take that would have been absurd many years ago. I personally am willing to do things the hard way for some benefit, so I have a Windows PC for gaming. But all my other systems are Linux systems, laptop, workstation, or embedded. However Windiws is supposed to be the easier choice.

I'll even grant that Windows PITA is mostly not deliberate action by Microsoft. It's mostly letting vendors be their crappy self and messing up the experience, with a bit of windows driver model incompatibilities breaking hardware support abandoned by vendor, but kept alive Linux side.

Frankly, this is EXACTLY the problem that I had, that made me switch to linux.

I had a MSI laptop with a 3060. At first, it was wonky on Windows but overall it worked with a few workarounds. So far so good.

After some times, an update to Windows (I believe) made it that I had to run DDU to uninstall the drivers then reinstall everything. It took me more than one afternoon. Then I still had to do the workarounds.

After a while, I had to uninstall the video drivers at every boot, then reinstall a specific version of one driver, then had to run Windows Update, uncheck one specific little tickbox for the video card to function. At. Every. Boot.

And then, not even that worked.

On Nobara, I just had to install the distro and boom ! It worked out of the box. With the only downside that the HDMI was capped at 1080p 30Hz (when Windows wouldn't even display over HDMI). I think the 30Hz part was a Wayland limitation at the time.

So no, it wasn't because I was bad at Windows. Bloody thing just did not work and made me go full linux.

Honestly, I think some of them have simply been off windows so long that they only know issues they've seen in the news, and not used the relatively smooth experience you get. Like, I swapped to Linux not too long ago. Windows was MOSTLY easier to use, but it was getting to invasive for my tastes.

If you find Linux easier to use day-to-day, you're either A) much better than the average person at getting an intuition for all the options and controls B) doing something fairly uncommon where windows just falls short C) simply so used to Linux over Windows that you have a better intuition on how to handle Linux

And, like, sure there are specific tasks where one OS is just going to grant a smoother experience, but if we're talking most general usage, Windows will be such a smooth use for the average user.

I've been using windows since 3.1, and never had an issue swapping graphics cards. I agree that DDU being sometimes required is silly - vendors should be providing proper uninstallers, or at least officially sponsor/ship DDU.

you sound like how some people claim linux users are 😄

Yup.

Build PC

Activate Windows

Motherboard develops a fault

Get a refund/replacement

Install it

Windows is no longer activated, because they tied it to the motherboard...

> irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex

Insert meme template here: Wait, you guys license your Windows?

Same here. It was a matter of swapping one for the other and installing the new drivers. I was up and running rather quickly, even though I was switching form AMD to Nvidia.

Nah, literally just swapped nvidia gpus last week.

Pull one out, pop one in, resume gaming.

If you don't already have the nvidia driver or nouveau, you have to install that and make sure it isn't blacklisted. Reboot and done.

Ytou're issue is probably that you are using Mint. They have serious issues with out of date drivers.