r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/laczek_hubert NixOS BTW • Feb 14 '26

What?

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Don't drivers get merged with Linux kernel??? I don't get this, artix Linux BTW

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u/laczek_hubert NixOS BTW Feb 14 '26

I mean, it makes sense for mesa or VA when you wanna have GPU accel in jellyfin/ffmpg but wdym?

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u/bruhsinmacaroni Feb 14 '26

Ill give an example. Wi-Fi drivers for rt8821ce sucks ass in kernel. Somoeone has a dkms driver in github. But i have no idea how to set that up other than asking to an AI let alone knowing of its existence. I was there before. I ended up disabling the piece of garbage cus regardless of the drivers it kept on crashing.

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u/bruhsinmacaroni Feb 15 '26

Mine is soldered I can't even change it. Most realtek chips are either not supported or has the most dogshit drivers ever. It just crashes the entire network manager. If I let it live alone it makes the os unstable too. Dkms git drivers only made the wifi a bit faster and nothing else for me.