My point is they dont work together. I can believe Nvidia ‘started’ it, but it doesnt matter or help me solve my problem. I’ve decided I want to try Linux but I can’t afford another card so I’m doing what I can.

This is an uncharitable interpretation of what I said.

Nvidia doesn’t tell me it doesn’t work. Linux users do. When I first used Linux for coding all those years ago, my GPU wasn’t relevant, nobody mentioned it during my code bootcamp or computer science certification several years ago, and ubuntu and Kubuntu both booted fine.

When I upgraded my GPU, I got Nvidia. It was available and I knew what to expect. Simple as.

Then as W10 (and W11) got increasingly intolerable, I came to Linux communities to learn about using Linux as a Windows replcement, looking into distros like Mint and Garuda, and behold: I come across users saying Linux has compatibility issues with Nvidia. Perhaps because it is ‘so well known’ most don’t think to mention it, I learned about it from a random comment on a meme about gaming.

I also looked into tutorials on getting Affinity design software to work on which distros, and the best I could find was shit like, I finally got it to run so long as I don’t [do these three basic functions].

I don’t care who started it, I can already believe it’s the for-profit company sucking up to genAI. But right now that doesn’t help me. I care that it’s true and that’s the card I have, and I’m still searching for distros that will let me switch and meets work needs and not just browsing or games.

I’m here now, aware that they don’t work, still looking for the best solution I can afford, because I did look up Linux.

Similar for me. All the talk about what software Linux couldn’t handle, I didn’t learn that Linux is incompatible with Nvidia until AFTER I updated my GPU. I don’t want to buy another GPU after less than a year, but Windows makes me want to do a sudoku in protest… but also my work and design software wont run properly on Linux and all anybody can talk about is browsers and games.

I’m damned whether I switch or not.

I see the symbols as like checkboxes or matrices. The ‘X’ has been filled in as yes, the O has been left empty

The main big red one is clearly an ice block (aka popsicle, water ice).

There is an elephant scooping something creamy with their trunk, but there are dairy-free soft serves as well. They’re called sorbet, and can be made from flavouring water, or from fruit puree.

I think its more likely that the abstaining countries rely on America for trade or military in some way and don’t want to aggravate them politically but clearly aren’t willing to vote alongside them.

Tell me about it. NZ has the most right-wing neo-liberal pro-American-politicking cabinet we’ve had in a long long time. (The PM is also so incompetent he’s polling the lowest approval we’ve had for a long time, possibly ever). They got in power off the backs of post-Covid economic hardship, despite having no proposed solutions other than funding landlords and cutting environmental policy.

If it had been put to the citizens, I believe we would’ve been for it. But the current cabinet doesn’t want to piss off American partners no doubt, hoping abstaining let’s them sit on the fence a little longer while pretending we’re ultimately n9t the bad guy. That will be the reason for most of those abstaining.

I’m disgusted.