[lubuntu-devel] There is/was still the whole issue of problems w/Add'l Driver

[Fritz Hudnut]

Walter:

Yep, back in the PPC days "we all" wished that we could use nouveau, but
instead had to do some complicated configuring in the black display to get
"nv" to work . . . .  I'm more or less an "end user" of OSs . . . although
sometimes I run a distributed.net "crunch" on OSX . . . .  It wasn't until
I started having issues with "suspending" my MacPro in Siduction and I
believe in OpenSUSE that I had folks saying, "go to proprietary drivers" .
. . but, then yes, that did bring in some upgrading problems . . . problems
that generally "Add'l Drivers" makes easy.

I'm just looking for more or less "basic function" and so far in switching
back to nouveau the suspend function doesn't seem affected . . . .  I would
tend to agree that the "apps are the apps" in the ubuntu world . . . just
reporting my recent experience where they didn't match up in use . . .
20.04 v 20.04.

F

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:24 AM Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:41:22AM -0800, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> > Now seems like we are flowing back to all-nouveau . . .?
>
> I've only ever used nouveau (like, literally, ever) and never had a
> problem with it. I'm not a gamer nor am I doing any heavy math GPU
> processing and if that were the case, maybe I'd need to get more under
> the hood than nouveau might allow since it is reverse engineered, but
> for normal use, i.e. displaying, it has always worked quite well. In
> fact, most of the complaints I hear from people surround how fragile
> the proprietary drivers are, especially in terms of long-term upkeep.
>
> > The Add'l Driver app in Lu seemed to "hang" when trying to step back one
> > package . . . compared to the speed that U-MATE provided
>
> Ultimately there should be little difference between the [various
> implementations of software-properties][1]. Furthermore, we're not the
> only ones that use the particular (Qt) version. Kubuntu does, as
> evidenced in [their request to make use of it][2]. AFAIK the difference
> between the two is the interface, not the backend.
>
> [1]: https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/focal/software-properties
> [2]: https://phab.lubuntu.me/T15
>
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