what's it like having dedicated graphics on linux? does

>>61626133
>install Nvidia drivers in linux
>causes every major DE to shitfuck itself

That was the point where I gave up on the Linux meme for good and installed Windows 7 on my new Ryzen desktop.

>>61626156
what about driving external monitors? or are they just useless on linux

>>61626133
Nvidia proprietary drivers just werk, at least on Arch.

>>61626133
It literally just werks. It will take a restart to install so keep that in mind (unless you don't care about uptime).
>>61626601
Works OOTB. I do use a xrandr command in a script when starting X to specify the positions, orientations, and refresh rates of my monitors (some distros have gui for this)

>>61626677
can they be completely disabled for power savings and fall back to onboard graphics? (like a 940mx in a laptop)

>>61626719
afaik

it just werks, although whether linux ports of games will run worth a shit is a tossup

>>61626677
Wait there are Linux distros that don't even have a GUI for your graphics shit???

Jesus fucking chief what kind of bullshit OS is that?

>>61626133
>have 7870
>just werks
AMD FOSS drivers are the best.

9 times out of ten its i stalling a driver file

as far as games to play to make it worth using the official ones there is not many

>>61626156
>unironically using a decade-old os
WEW

>>61626156
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I've used intel's open source drivers, nvidia's proprietary and open source as well as the three amd branches of proprietary, open source and hybrid. All worked great with no issues on a bleeding edge, "unstable" system. It's not linux's fault you're a complete retard and managed to break your system from fucking around.

>>61626677
There is a xrandr graphical command generator too. You graphically setup your monitors and can save the output as a .sh. The name is arandr.