Nope, will probably avoid 11 as long as I can though. I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux). And I need professional design software for work (as in, industry standard: Adobe or Affinity).

But I put 11 on my laptop to try it and I hate it. So many terrible UI changes, UX noticeably worse. Like they changed stuff just to say they changed stuff.

I considered going Linux for personal use and development, and then using another machine or dual boot for Mac for design software. But i learned about the Nvidia issues after I upgraded my card :/ and swapping to Mac's walled garden after avoiding it for decades is.... a sign of how bad W11 feels to use.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux).

They haven't been for a while now. On some newer distros they'll install the Nvidia drivers at the same time as the OS itself.

[–] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 2 points 21 hours ago

If you have a newer NVIDIA, you should be good. It's a little rough around the edges here and there (steam overlay flickered for a friend, but that was months ago and could well be fixed) , but to my understanding, the worst issues have been solved. And having previously used an RTX 2040, it worke perfectly where it truly matters.

Like others have said, try a dualboot. It can't hurt.

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Bazzite makes nvidia pretty easy, although it can still be troublesome, they are working on it. There's a different iso to install that is designed for nvidia, couldn't be more straightforward.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux

I dunno man, Debian makes it pretty easy.

Prerequisites

x64 Kernel headers:

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

Debian 12 Installation

Disable secure boot & add ‘Contrib’ repository to sources list:

sudo deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Install Nvidia driver

sudo apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree

Restart system.

Bonus points for optimal performance follow CUDA doc & OptiX doc for Ray-Tracing & utilization of Nvidia cuda cores.

[–] thepineapplejumped@lemm.ee 3 points 23 hours ago

On Ubuntu you can also just run:

sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Might be worth testing Linux with a separate drive. I know people still have trouble with Nvidia, but there are a lot of people (myself included) that just had to install the drivers and have had zero issues thereafter. Mine is a slightly older gaming laptop.

I have a desktop with an AMD card that I tried to put Linux on and couldn't get the drivers to work. I'm going to try again in the summer and hope they've caught up.