Originally Posted by
crablab
Hi EG,
I was under the impression Linux graphics drivers were fairly baked into the OS?
Thus rather more difficult to up/down grade
Linux comes with lots of drivers already installed, and for many graphics installations they are all that is required. However I do some heavy graphics work and for the desktop machines always have a mid-range graphics card installed which is going to work best with the manufacturer's drivers. Nowadays it's pretty painless to install them in place of the default, but it's true it didn't use to be. (I've been a Linux user since 1993.)
On your Thinkpad I cannot really comment, my laptops are from HP and the default graphics are fine with SuSE on one and Manjaro on the other. But if you don't need to be riding on the leading edge why not drop back to 15.10?
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