Echedelle (she/her)

I am aware too of the Brazil case, specially for imports, the taxes and the inflation.

I have a friend there. I know that my options did not cover the difficulty of import and taxes because I tend to be general. I know that for GPUs and such, unless you want to pay the expensive pricing you have inside from people who scam locals (people who import laptops from US at 200 and sell at 800 as example), must be gotten from outside and such.

Please, to the people replying to this person and suggesting “just buy a new one”.

Not everynyan has the money, and yes, even 30 dollars/euros/etc may be difficult to get for a person. Maybe low income, maybe no income, maybe inflation in the country, maybe that is not the real price in their zone, maybe no stores available easily.

I understand that some of you have those options but understand that is a privilege too.

edit: if you wanna still suggest that, I propose something better. If it is so cheap and accesible for you, why dont you buy it and give it to them for free?

Some people just dont have 30 euros.

Please, take that into account before suggesting like everynyan else.

The thing is, the firmware is needed for extra initialization in some cards even if the feature Matrix reports that is supported.

And that is why I ask. Also some of the DRM packages are optional.

So, yeah, I ask to be sure and as far as you dont want to disclose info, I cannot offer “any idea” because that is conditioned by the variables of the environment.

Edit: removed part of the reply because I was frustrated

Okay but tell me what you use or I cannot help you.

There has been changes and specifying every possible path is messy :c

Also check if you installed or have firmware-nvidia-gsp (only if your GPU is post-Turing) in addition to what I asked before.

Are you using xorg or wayland?

If you use xorg do you have xserver-xorg-video-nouveau?

do you have libdrm-nouveau2?

do you have libgl1-mesa-dri?

did you install firmware-nvidia-graphics? this is the firmware packages from NVIDIA to use it in Nouveau, should help you a lot.

This person is really privileged mew

No, and also is possible this is due to Debian 13 release plus increment in Lemmy usage in the past years.

I did not notice this before.

I am more around Debian community.

Yes.

Ubuntu 24.04 is equivalent to Debian 13, except Ubuntu 24.04 was released last year.

Every Ubuntu version is based on a copy of Debian Sid, which is the unstable branch.

Eventually, they incorporate Debian patches too but keep some packages in different versions (libpng, the kernel, openssl and similar are the most I remember but they change between releases).

Related to the thing: I like mature and safe transitions, specially if is supposed to run in production.

From my POV, and knowing I already take care if something for new Debian releases, Ubuntu, even in LTS, is the worse what I could wish because they release unreleased and/or unstable software, which did not even pass Debian releases statuses.

I meant in Lemmy I dont see complaints or bugs reported so much about Debian.

I dont usually see many despiste the typical arch linux, fedora or similar “exotic” distro user who used it years ago.

Or maybe someone who suddenly jumped into it.

I use Debian in container images and servers. Almost everything I touch whenever I have the option.

I only use Ubuntu when expectated, required or asked specifically by customer or such.

Ubuntu has issues in every LTS (this time with APT version shipped) because Ubuntu releases are based on Debian Sid (basically unreleased Debian software which they “patch” later including unstable version of tools).

I suffer this in my job every time a Ubuntu LTS is shipped previous to the release of the Debian version equivalent to it (Ubuntu 24.04 is Debian 13 with mixed versions of packages and “patches”) and a customer or a teammate upgrade a container-image or workstation to it…

I even use Debian new versions after either 1 year or the first .1 release.

Ubuntu Pro intensifies with the full support of the tools under a custom license.

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