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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8032101

From the author of the "Shift Happens" book that came out a little while ago.

This is now several crossposts deep but I wanted to share here :)

I feel like there might be other comms to crosspost this to but couldn't think of any, feel free to crosspost if you can!

I have a friend who I recently learned is looking to switch to Linux and I offered to help, since I've been using Linux for ages. I'm not the most technical user, but in some ways I think that makes me uniquely well suited to be a new person's guide, and I'm pretty familiar with the install and setup process sans one big thing, proprietary graphics drivers, I've generally always been installing Linux on a laptop it an integrated gpu

They let me know they have an nvidia graphics card, I think 30 series if I remember right, we don't know what DE or distro might be a good fit for them and I told them we'd start by test driving a few, see what they thought of the interfaces, and pick a distro from there

Can you boot and use the OS without installing the proprietary drivers, or do you need to install them via like tty or something? I know nvidia started open sourcing their drivers and some amount is in the kernel now, I assume proprietary drivers are still optimal, if not explicitly necessary?

Any and all advice is welcome, it's kinda hard to research something this general and get a sense for what the big picture looks like

Thank you!

Sorry the pictures are kinda crap. I'd never seen one before and thought it looked super cool!

It was really small and it looked like basically the whole top half of the car was glass

Also kinda surprised with myself that I recognize the rims, I think they're painted e30 bottlecaps 😅

If you have a couple dollars to spare :)

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113928378036027608

It has like 300 views and 2 comments, I figure it deserves a little more love than that :)

https://youtu.be/ktIpDVj9tZk

Cross/re-post of something I saved years ago :)

This is a cross-post, I thought it was neat :)

This is a cross-post, I thought it was neat :)

This is a cross-post, I thought it was neat :)