[ale] Moving last win box to linux

[James Taylor]

"All I can tell you about the preceding is I wouldn't be caught dead
using an nVidia video card or GPU or whatever it's called with Linux.
That's playing Russian Roulette with intermittent freezes and
spontaneous reboots. This doesn't happen to most people, but it's a
well known problem and it happened to me. And when it does, it takes
hours and hours to troubleshoot because nobody suspects a bad video
card would take down a whole machine."

That's odd.
I've been sourcing nothing but nvidia cards for my linux  boxes for over a decade, with no issues other than usual self-inflicted ones.

I've been running exclusively openSUSE, so maybe better support on that distro?

-jt

James Taylor
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>>> Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> 09/13/2025, 07:55 AM >>>

On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:28:58 -0700
Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:


> 1. Best video card to support multiple Display Port monitors (at
> least three) with Linux support. The current Windows machine has a
> GeForce GTX 1660. I'm not playing games but I want good resolution
> support because I do things like CAD.

All I can tell you about the preceding is I wouldn't be caught dead
using an nVidia video card or GPU or whatever it's called with Linux.
That's playing Russian Roulette with intermittent freezes and
spontaneous reboots. This doesn't happen to most people, but it's a
well known problem and it happened to me. And when it does, it takes
hours and hours to troubleshoot because nobody suspects a bad video
card would take down a whole machine.


> 5. Webcam support. I have a Logitech MX Brio. It works very well and
> I'd like to hang onto it so if it works with something in Linux that
> would be great.

I see no reason why your webcam wouldn't be supported, but this is a
low priority, because brand new and improved USB webcams are available
cheap. Me: I'm working with a decades old Logitech USB webcam, and it
works great on Void Linux. Matter of fact, it works better than many
brand new laptop built-in webcams.

SteveT

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