Just wanted to say I made the switch yesterday from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux, no dual booting. It took multiple installs though because the first two times I followed old instructions for installing the Nvidia drivers. The third time I found out that I can just install them through the software center when third party repositories are enabled and that worked like a breeze.

And I have to say it’s a really good thing that the installer for Fedora is getting an overhaul soon because Anaconda is horribly confusing in its UX.

Edit: just wanted to add a hyfetch screenshot:

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    5·
    10 days ago

    You generally don’t need to mess with drivers on Linux with desktop oriented distros.

    One exception is Nvidia graphics cards IF you want to game. They’ll work fine out of the box but for full gaming performance you’ve gotta install their proprietary drivers. (And this is slightly harder on Fedora due to their more aggressive anti-proprietary policies.)

    • Cheems@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 days ago

      I had heard that Nvidia doesn’t play well with Linux which is one of many reasons I went with amd

    • Tywèle [she|her]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      3·
      10 days ago

      I found it was pretty easy once I knew how ^^

      Just enable third party repositories during the setup, search for Nvidia in the Software Center and install the drivers and follow the instructions displayed, done.