“Do you want to know where I got these scars?! I found a handy guide to installing the Wi-Fi drivers I needed, but I couldn’t use it could I? Because it required that I already be online…”
I always use my usb to phone cable in these situations. Basically any distro has a driver ready to see the phone‘s hotspot network. Saved me a lot of times, lol
I do the same. In case someone wants to know how it works with an Android phone, you connect your phone to your PC over USB and then you get a notification on your phone that says something like “Charging over USB”. If you tap on that, you can change the connection mode and one of the modes is “USB tethering”. If you select that, your PC will have an internet connection over the USB connection to your phone. It’s kinda like hotspot over USB.
This is the most Arch Linux comment I’ve read in a while. This is easy in most mainstream distros now, but there are exceptions like NixOS or Gentoo, which aren’t shitty but are just harder for specific reasons.
Unless you have a really old graphics card anyway and then you have to use the .run installer from Nvidia. Pain in the a-- sure, but still not Joker level hurt-the-world madness.
I was broken long before nVidia drivers and Wayland.
I was crushed long ago while trying to compile the driver for a Sound Blaster Gold sound card for Fedora 6 and Mandrake 6. Two weeks and 20 pages of printed out instructions. Two weeks of hell in kernels. It should have worked. The terminal showed no errors and nor did the logs. But no sound came forth. I had to buy a boxed set for Mandrke 7 to get sound.
So here I sit with a fresh install of Fedora 40 on my trusty old Nitro 5 wondering if I should install the nVidia drivers and I hear the silent foot steps of that Sound Blaster…
LOL, this is a joke, on most popular distro it is quite easy, on ubuntu and mint, it is just clicking a check box and set a password for secureboot.
On fedora is clicking a button, and run a single line of command.
Many distro has nvidia images that don’t need any configuration, like popOS, ublue derivates, and vanilla OS etc.
I have been using my old GTX1060 on ublue for couple years now.
I think the complains are most about distro developers needs to do extra work, just because nvidia refuse to play nicely with open source, like everyone else did.
The last time, something hosed my whole install. I stopped using linux for a while after that. I'm stuck on a mac for work, much to my protestation, and I can't justify replacing the graphics card on my personal PC at this moment, so I'm mostly just hanging out in Windows (mostly because I do video editing as well and I have issues with Davinci in Linux that may or may not be related to nvidia).
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