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64 points breve | 2 comments | 04 Dec 25 10:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.522s | source
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rmrfchik ◴[08 Dec 25 15:58 UTC] No.46193809[source]▶
nvidia on linux [for desktop] is utterly broken. I ran nvidia cards for almost 15 years (shame on me): laggy X11 compositing, fragile and broken wayland. Broken suspend/resume. Too many moving parts (selected drivers, modprobe quirks, suspend/resume scripts). Moved to amd: slick x11, reliable wayland, NO MORE DRIVERS AT ALL, works like charm. And yes, I do playing in Linux.
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graynk ◴[09 Dec 25 15:28 UTC] No.46205954[source]▶
Suspend/resume is broken in general (and everywhere besides Mac), including AMD on Linux.

No more drivers is just..false?

The rest was true up to roughly 3 years ago. Now I'm a happy camper

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rmrfchik ◴[09 Dec 25 16:58 UTC] No.46207315[source]▶
Suspend/resume was broken in nvidia since release on aug 2024. I have internal bug id for it. And dozen links with suspend scripts. No more drivers I mean I don't need to install dozens of packages. While it not big deal by itself, but reverting broken driver is huge deal. Laggy desktop -- this is my experience until nov 2025 when I dumped nvidia. Desktop on both intel and amd feels like magic after nvidia.
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1. mx7zysuj4xew ◴[09 Dec 25 23:14 UTC] No.46212025[source]▶
Suspend/resume never worked right, going back to as early as the 2000s
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2. LargoLasskhyfv ◴[10 Dec 25 23:06 UTC] No.46225288[source]▶
Depends heavily on the used hardware AND firmware of the system. I remember having some no-name laptop with a P166-MMX, and Bios from Systemsoft. That thing managed to successfully suspend and resume anything. Be it just to and from RAM, or to Disk in a separate small partition. By anything I mean exotics like NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, any Linux I threw at it.