Nouveau driver

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2013–2023), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Nouveau driver, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Driver performance is miserable and wastes power on newer Nvidia GPUs2023-08-31
Mixed-DPI monitors can't be scaled correctly; driver crashes and video lags2020-05-31
Laptop freezes every 30 seconds or fails to boot, making it unusable2019-02-10
Screen tearing and screen not coming back on after suspend2018-12-24
Users must remove, purge and blacklist it before installing the proprietary driver2013-07-12