I have unfortunately have not had good experience with the new (as few years ago , not the Nouveau drivers) Nvidia open source drivers, compared to their close source drivers. I keep wanting it to be better.
Vince Winter, Technology Sorcerer of the Adept Circle On Sun, May 24, 2026, 12:40 PM David Fleck via PLUG <[email protected]> wrote: > > As someone who has to support internal company software for a bunch of > developers who I always think should know better, I found this to be > extremely cathartic, thank you. > > -- > - David Fleck > > > On Sunday, May 24th, 2026 at 12:12 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > As for the "reinstall the OS" reply, that's to be expected. For > starters, you simply will NOT get support for bugs like this on anything > other than the development version of Ubuntu. The Canonical and NVIDIA > developers are stretched thin, and so are "cherry picking" the bugs to work > on. A cherry bug is one filed on the most current development version, > with a hands-off out-of-box install where the user has not gone in and > mucked-about with settings trying to "fix it", on currently shipping > product. A cherry bug is one that reads: > > > > I have a wonkulating gronkulator HP laptop make in 2017 model XYZ, > serial PDQ, with the following hardware layout: > [ ... the rest snipped ... ] >
