In addition to that other answer: they are bad at maintaining their userspace tools. The basic nvidia-setup program was at times so broken that you could only change stuff as root because using su or sudo crashed the app. Which is fun if your root account is deactivated by default… And they couldn’t be bothered to fix it for literally more than a year.
I still have a script in my files that was running in early boot to change the fan speed at boot because there was no other way to change configs once booted and logged in.
Interesting, I feel like I avoided a lot of these issues as I had laptops and so had to use the nvidia prime instead to manually offload to the gpu when needed.
Just needed it to have the drivers or dkms. I probably had a worse time perf wise but wouldn’t know.
In addition to that other answer: they are bad at maintaining their userspace tools. The basic nvidia-setup program was at times so broken that you could only change stuff as root because using su or sudo crashed the app. Which is fun if your root account is deactivated by default… And they couldn’t be bothered to fix it for literally more than a year.
I still have a script in my files that was running in early boot to change the fan speed at boot because there was no other way to change configs once booted and logged in.
Interesting, I feel like I avoided a lot of these issues as I had laptops and so had to use the nvidia prime instead to manually offload to the gpu when needed.
Just needed it to have the drivers or dkms. I probably had a worse time perf wise but wouldn’t know.