I’ve been using Mint for about 6 months now and it works with Nvidia just fine BUT the new user experience isn’t great. You have to use the nomodeset kernel option and install Nvidia drivers, otherwise you’ll boot to a black screen.
Helpful guide: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=421550
I do quite like the stability of Cinnamon/Debian, and I think this problem is solvable (even if I have to solve it myself). I generally do not want to spend a lot of time futzing around with my desktop environment, but this is one thing I need to have.
I saw that and tried it pretty early on. That just moves the screen, it doesn’t fill the quadrant.
Updated to be specific, I’m using Cinnamon. Muffin is the builtin tiling window manager for Cinnamon and it does exactly what you’re describing. The problem is that it moves tiles, it doesn’t absolutely position them. You have to keep moving tiles around to get them where you want them, Rectangle just has hotkeys to immediately place and resize to fit the active window for each quadrant that it supports:
ctrl+cmd+left: top left quadrantctrl+cmd+right: top left quadrantshift+ctrl+cmd+left: bottom left quadrantshift+ctrl+cmd+right: bottom left quadrantalt+cmd+left: left halfalt+cmd+right: right halfalt+cmd+up: top halfalt+cmd+left: bottom halfalt+cmd+f: full screenIt’s hard to express how natural that feels after using it for a bit, and I’m still using a Macbook for work so the muscle memory is not going away.
i ain’t won jack alot from the squattery
I think operating at 5V input might be a technical constraint for them. Compatibility revisions for existing hardware are a lot more difficult if the input voltage is 9x higher. Addressing that isn’t as easy as slapping a buck converter on the board.
Not saying requiring 5A was the right call, just that I can see reasons for not using USB-PD.
Yeah, I don’t fully understand why Nvidia cards have this problem on first setup with so many distros. On Windows, the default display driver can at least boot with reduced resolution on most cards made in the last 15 years until you install proper drivers. It seems like the Linux kernel and common desktop environments ought to be able to do the same.
Maybe this is better in the 6.x kernel, I haven’t tried it. I’m not too much of a tinkerer, so the bleeding edge doesn’t interest me. I just want a good shell, POSIX for personal coding projects, and the ability to play games on Steam. Mint is great for that once you get past the initial display driver issues.