I never really see hardware lacking Linux support mentioned, which got me caught by surprise when a computer with a Broadcom network card couldn’t use the card. What other hardware don’t work with Linux?

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    nvidia cards are always giving people grief, especially on Wayland. Technically supported but practically not recommended if you want an easy time

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      15 hours ago

      I always hear this, but I’ve been using Nvidia with Linux since 2004 and have never had any issues.

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        I’ve had mixed experiences myself. Sometimes it works, sometimes it randomly breaks. I just wouldn’t recommend it to someone who wants it to “just work” and be stable and not do maintenance. For me, I’m someone who’s happy to do maintenance, but I don’t want that to extend to my graphics card, which in this day and age ought to just work.

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      If you have a GTX 10xx card or later, their are virtually no issue with Wayland anymore. I have two PC with nvidia cards and had almost 0 issue with gnome plasma and hyprland in the last two years.

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      Sadly I bought my PC before switching to Linux was on the agenda. And I don’t have the money to change to AMD.