There are many reasons to dislike Nvidia on Linux. Here is a little thing that bugs me all the time, the updates. Normally the system updates would be quick and fast, but with the proprietary drivers of Nvidia involved, it gets quiet slow process. And I am not even talking about any other problem I encounter, just about the updates.

As an Archlinux based system user (EndeavourOS to be precise), I get new Kernel updates all the time. That means every time a new Kernel version is installed, the Nvidia driver DKMS has to be installed too. And that is basically the slowest part. But that’s not too bad, even though it’s doing this twice for each Kernel I have once.

What’s more infuriating is, if you also happen to use Flatpaks for a very few applications. I really don’t have many Flatpaks at all. Yet, the Nvidia drivers are installed in 7 versions or what?! And they are full downloads, each 340 MB or more. This takes ages and is the only part that takes long to update Flatpak system. I always do flatpak remove --unused to make sure nothing useless is present. /RANT (EDIT: Just typos corrected.)

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      @aleph “Cascadia Code”
      Here is fastfetch output:

      OS: EndeavourOS x86_64
      Kernel: 6.1.51-1-lts
      Uptime: 50 mins
      Packages: 1149 (pacman), 34 (flatpak)
      Shell: bash 5.1.16
      Display (AG271QG): 2560x1440 @ 120Hz
      DE: qtile
      WM: Qtile 0.22.1 (X11)
      Theme: Arc-Dark [GTK2/3]
      Icons: Qogir-dark [GTK2/3]
      Font: Cascadia Code (12pt) [GTK2/3]
      Cursor: Qogir
      Terminal: xfce4-terminal 1.1.0
      Terminal Font: Cascadia Code (13pt)
      CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) E3-1230 v3 (8) @ 3,7 GHz
      GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
      Memory: 3,11 GiB / 15,57 GiB (20%)
      Disk (/): 122,70 GiB / 227,21 GiB (54%) - ext4
      Disk (/media/Backup): 149,83 GiB / 916,70 GiB (16%) - ext4
      Disk (/media/Emulation): 3,83 TiB / 5,41 TiB (71%) - ext4
      Disk (/media/My): 1,04 TiB / 3,58 TiB (29%) - ext4
      Disk (/media/System): 411,39 GiB / 915,82 GiB (45%) - ext4
      Locale: en_US.UTF-8
      
      
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        Nice, that’s a new one on me. That lower case k is pretty unusual.

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          @aleph Hope I do not get cancelled for, but this is actually a font from Windows/Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_Code It is Open Source and was the default font for my OS I think. The problem is finding a font that looks good and has good support for emojis, glyphs and icons, ligatures for programming and such. And I wanted to try different font.

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            1 year ago

            Heresy! /s

            Is that really the default font for Xfce-ternimal on EndeavourOS? I use the same distro but with Gnome, which is probably how that little detail passed me by.

            My personal ride-or-die terminal font is Jetbrains Mono, which you might want to try out. I know it supports ligatures although not sure about emojis etc.