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> My latest discovery is that Ubuntu's auto-updates will auto-destroy your NVIDIA drivers if you have an unexpected version of GCC set as default). Graphics drivers are emphatically not something Linux people should be crowing about to Windows users.

I have to agree. Especially when the Ubuntu package drivers ruin your system.

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Yeah but do not blame Ubuntu or other distributors or Linux, but NVidia, who ship shitty proprietary drivers that do not integrate well in the *nix system.

I've had massive problems with my Nvidia gpu using anything but the open-source driver. I'm not sure how much performance I'm losing but it's worth not spending hours debugging.

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