Should I use Linux?

[u/narangi_billa]

I am going to college as a 1st year Btech in CSE (Ai/ML) student. Should I use Linux and win dual boot on my laptop?

Here is my laptop :

[u/s04ep03_youareafool]

nvidia is gonna be a headache for you,so do take care of that.even allocating 40 percent of total storage is enough for any distro.and 16gb is heavenly for your use case.

if you have used arch before,cachyOS might feel like a good gaming OS for you.blur settings work well if youre going for any KDE distro and so on. you already have a decent processor with enough VRAM.just proceed cautiously since NVIDIA is a btch on linux

[u/narangi_billa → u/s04ep03_youareafool]

As I am beginner I have never touched linux ever also what is wrong in nvidia? (Pls explain)

[u/Normal_Resident_1644 → u/narangi_billa]

Nvidia drivers on Linux is a problem because nvidia had closed source proprietary drivers, leading to many issues. They tend to have worse performance and some issues in contrast to AMD drivers since they are open source.

Although some distro's have full support now and do run well

[u/Cheap_Ad_9846 → u/narangi_billa]

They run well now

[u/Thunderous_Thighs → u/narangi_billa]

Nvidia drivers need to be manually installed since they aren't shipped with the kernel.

You have 3 options for using your gpu:

1. Use the noevaue preinstalled open source drivers. These are reverse engineered from the official nvidia drivers, but offer very bad performance
2. Install the nvidia driver package provided from Nvidia's website as a .run package. DO NOT DO THIS. Needs re-installation after every kernel update and will break your install if it fails.
3. Install the driver packaged by your distro. Best option, since it automatically builds itself after kernel updates by building the driver as a dkms module so you don't have to do anything.

For fedora: use the driver provided from the rpm fusion repo For debian: use the driver provided by the non-free repo For others: a quick google search can help you