• linuxgator@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 months ago

    Putting tobasco in your own eye is still easier than getting sound card drivers to work in Windows ME.

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      8 months ago

      I’m a pretty patient person when it comes to technology… But Windows ME (Mistake Edition) is the only OS that made me legitimately throw my Compaq ESN pro computer down a flight of stairs

      (Yes it still worked fine afterwards)

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        8 months ago

        Yeah. It was so bad that they didn’t even bother releasing and service packs, just skipped straight to XP. Then came Vista, which was also bad enough to gain the nickname Windows Me 2 (or Me too).

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          8 months ago

          So many fond memories of running the XP beta more than a year past the official release lol

          *Forgot to add finding alternative ways to update the beta version to the release version patches was fun, too

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          Nah, Vista wasn’t even nearly as bad as ME, it was just released with hardware requirements that were too high and OEM manufacturers that installed it anyway on their low-end hardware.

          And of course too strict UAC, but that could be disabled.

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          8 months ago

          I’d say in the 10+ years of using Linux, and most of those have been with Nvidia. Maybe 5% of the time I’ve had an issue, half the time it’s fixed within a few minutes.

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          8 months ago

          i only had issues with nvidia in fedora, since i moved to arch i havent had many issues (other than making installing the os take a few minutes longer)

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          8 months ago

          from my experience fedora is horrible at installing the nvidia drivers. i had no issue with arch though, other than installation taking a bit longer

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            8 months ago

            I had ONE hick-up with Nvidia drivers on arch in about 6 years. I needed to downgrade them initially when Valve released the new Steam UI. That’s been fixed pretty fast. When I’m thinking back it was the only problem I had with arch upgrades in its entirety apart from one that was completely on me: installing KWinFT which completely messed up some system libraries (but was repairable). Arch was nothing but rock solid stable for me.

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              8 months ago

              arch has been really stable for me too, the only things that ever happened on my pc has either been the clock unsyncing(probably errors when installing arch) or thinking an update of nvidia drivers made all the black parts of the screen glitch(my old gpu just broke down, nothing to do with the drivers)