<div dir="ltr"><div>Walter:</div><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="http://distributed.net">distributed.net</a> "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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>F<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:24 AM Walter Lapchynski <<a href="mailto:wxl@ubuntu.com">wxl@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:41:22AM -0800, Fritz Hudnut wrote:<br>
> Now seems like we are flowing back to all-nouveau . . .?<br>
<br>
I've only ever used nouveau (like, literally, ever) and never had a<br>
problem with it. I'm not a gamer nor am I doing any heavy math GPU<br>
processing and if that were the case, maybe I'd need to get more under<br>
the hood than nouveau might allow since it is reverse engineered, but<br>
for normal use, i.e. displaying, it has always worked quite well. In<br>
fact, most of the complaints I hear from people surround how fragile<br>
the proprietary drivers are, especially in terms of long-term upkeep.<br>
<br>
> The Add'l Driver app in Lu seemed to "hang" when trying to step back one<br>
> package . . . compared to the speed that U-MATE provided<br>
<br>
Ultimately there should be little difference between the [various<br>
implementations of software-properties][1]. Furthermore, we're not the<br>
only ones that use the particular (Qt) version. Kubuntu does, as<br>
evidenced in [their request to make use of it][2]. AFAIK the difference<br>
between the two is the interface, not the backend.<br>
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[1]: <a href="https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/focal/software-properties" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/focal/software-properties</a><br>
[2]: <a href="https://phab.lubuntu.me/T15" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phab.lubuntu.me/T15</a><br>
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