[danudey]

I worked at a company that exclusively used Linux desktops (we were effectively a team of remote Linux tech support/sysadmins).

Every week or two I'd reboot my machine for whatever reason, and it would boot load a minor point release kernel update,and X would fail, and I'd have to go manually recompile the nvidia drivers for my kernel and then I could start X again and then I could get back to work. It was one of those things that would add twenty minutes to your workday for no really good reason other than Dell had shipped nvidia chips.

This was made doubly frustrating for a coworker who had a habit of bumping into her computer and hitting the power button with her foot (a giant, easy-to-hit target right in the centre of it). It would reboot and, surprise, go rebuild your kernel module so you can use X, while you're in the middle of helping a hospital get the x-rays of a patient so they can get him into emergency surgery.

Personally, I got used to it. I'd reboot intentionally every however often so that I could deal with it on my own terms, but it was such a hassle that I always wished for an AMD or Matrox card so I wouldn't have to deal with their BS.

[steve_musk]

If you installed the driver with DMKS it should rebuild it for you automatically whenever you update the kernel.

[subway]

DKMS is a relevantly relevantly development in the decades of pain nvidia has inflicted on linux users.

[lloeki]

> relevantly relevantly

"relatively recent"?

[subway]

...yes. lost a battle with autocorrect after a few beers.