PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.mltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Where can a Boomer catch up on current computer/software technology?
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9 months agoyou could get round this a bit by going for laptops that are designed to be used under load for extended periods of time… like gaming laptops.
Despite the good specs i wouldn’t want to be doing much heavy computing on a thin and light
if your updates included a new kernel try installing the kernel headers for the new kernel.
then if it’s still not working reinstall the nvidia driver.
i used to daily drive debian with proprietary nvidia drivers and it would break with every kernel upgrade
from memory, so almost certainly incorrect, the fix was simply something like
sudo apt install linux-headers-`uname -r` && sudo reboot