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It needs to actually work.
No display issues with Nvidia. Working HDR out of the box. The OS and games most pick up the correct resolution both on desktop and running in proton. I need to be able to turn my monitor off and on without having to remove and insert the HDMI.
Same with audio. I need it to correctly detect my HDMI pass through and not need a script to run on boot to pull and grep a changing device id on every fucking update.
Finally I need Bluetooth to not be a total piece of shit and correctly support a controller without latency.
Now, where is the nerd to come screech at me, tell me my issues were fixed a decade ago and that Linux just works perfectly on random hardware and that Linux is so easy an idiot could do it? All the while I spend 40 hours a week on the cli and ide.
Even steam deck has a bunch of issues that needs will hand wave away.
Hoestly same.
If linux meets your needs, cool. I'm even a little jealous, but please, linux guys, understand that not everyone has the same needs as you.
I need my personal computer to get out of the way and let me do other stuff, not be a project in itself. If you're a developer, desktop Linux is pretty good at that. Lots of nice compilers and versioning systems and IDEs and runtime environments to play around with. If you're literally anyone else it just doesn't cut it.
I have been trying to use Linux since 2009. I keep trying, but it never gets any better for my needs. In fact it has gotten worse.
Sounds like most of your problem is NVIDIA. I don't have any of that on AMD. But if that's what you have that's what you have. I'm not blaming you. Unfortunately NVIDIA (the company) is just not as good about making their stuff work with Linux.
Bluetooth works great for me. At least since I switched from a shitty old Broadcom wireless card to a modern Intel wireless one.
Checks clock. 40m.
So you're just going to have wave away the other 2/3rd? I get it Nvidia made it a pain in the ass. What excuse for BT, HDMI, and Wi-Fi?
Normal people aren't going to buy hardware just to use Linux.
Like I said I'm not blaming you. If that's the reality for you I'm not here to prosthelytize. Maybe you can try again on your next PC if you're still trying to get away from Windows.
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NVIDIA, along with HDMI audio.
Not something you mentioned but honestly not something I've had a problem with in 5+ years across a lot of hardware. Except this one old Broadcom card that was pulled from a Mac because I wanted to try Hackintoshing (running macOS on a normal PC).
Your HDMI problems are Nvidia's fault. WIFI I've never had problems unless it's a shitty WIFI card, BT also works, even with my shitty adapter. No noticable latency on a DualSense controller.
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