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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • The issues with Nvidia GPU’s has been blown up way to much in the last few years in my opinion.

    The potential problems you “might” face are:

    • Not backing up your system before updating
    • Using too old or too new a kernel version (Older versions may break or cause issue with newer drivers and bleeding edge kernels may introduce issues that weren’t caught during QA) * Always have a LTS kernel installed as well as a newer supported kernel
    • Using brand new hardware too soon (aka don’t expect a newly released card to work perfectly day one)
    • Trying to use GPU’s in edge case uses or pushing the envelope without knowing what you are doing
    • Not backing up your system
    • Trying to use the wrong kind of card for your needs (A Quadro card isn’t going to work well as a RTX card)
    • Not updating your system (Nvidia drivers get regular updates)

    For most major distros now a days you either select the Nvidia option when installing (like Manjaro) or install the drivers afterwards (Ubuntu based) and be off to the races.

    Set up and use Timeshift, make a backup before installing updates and you can roll back if there is an issue.













  • The hardware isn’t so much of a problem as there are companies who can make or source compatible tablets like the PineTab2 and the PineNote.

    It’s making the software compatible with a lower power mobile device and learning what needs to fixed.

    It would have been much easier to deal with getting a tablet up and running before dealing with getting a mobile device functional.

    Making the small steps from laptop to tablet then to phone would have saved them a lot of grief and software mistakes.