[yogeshgirdhar]

I was pleasantly surprised by Pop!_OS. It's basically Ubuntu + nice theme + drivers specifically tested and configured for the System76 hardware. No more pain and suffering because of nvidia drivers.

[mmirate]

Does this mean that anyone wanting to run anything non-Ubuntu-based on a System 76 product, gets to take upon themselves the joyous tasks of extricating these drivers from Pop!_OS, monitoring Pop!_OS for driver changes, and re-extricating new versions of drivers when they arrive?

[sitzkrieg]

I have ran fedora on a system76 machine with zero issues, but the machine is almost 2 years old now , and a pretty no frills intel laptop so who knows

[sliken]

I regularly install the current ubuntu LTS on about 5 desktops, all with nvidia. Generally it just works you either have to click on (settings -> drivers -> nvidia) or just do an apt-get install nvidia-<current version>.

When there's a kernel upgrade it "just works", presumably with DKMS or similar. What pain are you seeing with nvidia?

[Koshkin]

Yeah, but the name... Ugh.

[briandear]

Ubuntu isn’t exactly a catchy name either. Sounds like the name of a miscreant troll.

[thinkloop]

On windows and mac, because there's no choice, things like this are offered as software to install. Would doing the same on linux more likely cause "pain and suffering"?