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I installed a Nvidia 3060 earlier this year. Ran the command, rebooted the system, everything works fine.
I installed it on silverblue earlier this year and it was almost fine except firefox would randomly crash all the time, which was frustrating. Also gaming is a whole mess with nvidia. I miss my AMD card
I still cant sleep my computer with a 2070 Ti. I just shut it down and start it up every time, which is pretty shitty.
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2009 called
It's asking why things haven't changed in 14 years
(things are somewhat better)
IT'S FIXED!
LOL isn't that the truth. I wanted my desktop to not bother chugging watts through my 3090 and generating excess heat when barely KDE Plasma and a browser is running, but trying to set up GPU offload just left me with a blank terminal screen.
Thank God for the geniuses who implemented Snapper rollbacks in OpenSUSE! Otherwise, the Nvidia drivers in the repos work fine and I'm scared to touch them...
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I never understood this. Maybe because I stick with basic distros like Ubuntu or Mint. But I have not had this issue.
I had issues in like... 2010 or so. But not for about a decade
I saw a meme about sound cards recently and thousands of likes on social media.
And I wonder if it's people up voting because they remember that era, if it's bots, or if it's just people who kinda get the joke and don't want to be left out?
most likely the last one. especially in computer science, there's always a lot of people who sorta understand and just want to be included. that's why most computer science memes are "JavaScript bad" or "python slow" or other super basic mass opinions. I feel like it's super rare I see an actually original computer science meme
I haven't had issues for about a decade. I haven't had an nvidia card for about a decade either. I think the two may be connected.
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It depends a lot on which specific GPU you have and whether it's a laptop.
New-ish GPU in a desktop with the monitor plugged directly into the GPU? Easy to get working, literally a checkbox on most distros.
1000 series GPU or older in a laptop and you need reasonable battery life and/or some "advanced" features like DP Alt-Mode? Good luck.
Edit: Also, no Wayland until very recently. Possibly never, depending on the age of the GPU.
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I use mint on two different machines with Nvidia GPUs. One is a several year old desktop with a 1080 and the other is a two year old Dell laptop with a discrete nvidia GPU in addition to the Intel one on the processor.
Now granted I donβt play a ton of games right now, and when I do they usually arenβt cutting edge, but I donβt recall many problems so far. I use NVENC for Jellyfin and editing videos more often, and that has been pretty smooth. The one issue I had was related to that though. Kdenlive (flatpak) updated and could no longer export videos because it was looking for a newer version of something my mint-supplied nvidia driver wasnβt yet updated to have.
Trying to install a newer driver manually was a whole damn thing though, so I rolled back the kdenlive flatpak to the one that worked.
It was a horror show a decade or two back when I first tried Linux. I feel like this meme is just too late or just old.
Yeah, I used a 1070 on arch for years without any issue, recently switched over to an Intel arc gpu and that gave me way more problems (admittedly most of it was my "fault" for being on an old mbr scheme, needing to enable rebar, and needing to switch from xorg to wayland... but that's just what happens when a graphics card is so stable you don't feel the need to reinstall your os or change anything major). I am not hired by Nvidia nor do I support their business practices when it comes to making development on Linux difficult or creating proprietary standards like cuda, just stating my personal experience with their drivers.
I've never had trouble installing them. Getting them to work after an update is another story.
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laughs in Pop!_OS
Installing's easy. Does it work? No π« I still can't daily drive linux because how shitty NVIDIA's drivers are
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As a Linux noob I feel that lol... Currently on my Mint Laptop with an nvidia gpu (RTX 4060 Mobile version) and while most stuff worked out of the box, am running into several small annoyances:
- steam doesn't launch (steamwebhelper doesn't respond).
- Sleep mode just completely crashes the system once in a while.
- The GPU runs pretty warm, even if I don't use anything / have the laptop closed.
- Tried to tinker around with the 'nvidia-xconfig' CLI in order to use a custom fan curve and it created a config file which completely stopped my desktop environment from even launching at startup... Somehow managed to recover the system through terminal shenanigans
To anyone thinking about switching to linux, do yourself a favor and do it on AMD hardware.
i just upgraded to an AMD card yesterday because of the Nvidia driver nightmare lol
Yeah same here a few weeks ago. Glad I did though.
Never had issues with nvidia :p.. feels like im the only one
It's not just you. Perhaps it depends on the distro?
I just had to click around a little when setting up Ubuntu 22.04 and it's done.
I currently use pop!_os and that just came with them, but even then, most other distros I tried it was one command or one click in the package manager and done
I know the open source ones are a lot more finicky so maybe also depends on what you get :3
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All these Nvidia driver memes are why I haven't fully switched to Linux with my main rig (which is used solely for gaming). Servers, fuck yeah boy, Linux all the way. Stable as fuck and super lightweight. But I don't need those to render things in 3D at 60+ FPS.
I also never got Wi-Fi drivers working until Ubuntu first came out and I tried it.
That kinda shit makes it feel like a catch-22: some things don't work on Linux because nobody is developing that thing for Linux, and they aren't developing that thing for Linux because people who use that thing don't use Linux (because it's not there). Partially why I learned to code; sometimes I want something that doesn't exist so I must create it. Unfortunately, I am not learned enough to make drivers/wrappers. π
Meanwhile in reality installing Nvidia drivers is literally just a checkbox in a Drivers menu in system settings. Unless you are using Arch or something.
I recently finally moved to Linux (Mint). I have Nvidia GPU and yes, all I had to do was check the box and the drivers installed automatically. No problems so far.
I still have Windows 11 installed though (dualboot). I know there's some compatibility problems with Linux that's affecting me, but Linux is my main OS.
I've had wireless working in linux since 2002. 802.11b was complex but quick. I was still running slackware back then.
The memes are extremely outdated at this point. Iβve been rocking Linux with a 3070 for the last year and a half and have only seen minor issues and major improvements. Not to say itβs perfect, but my issues have been more from me rocking arch Linux and breaking my system than Nvidia issues
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Honestly, I've never had this problem. Two GPUs, two clicks in the gui driver manager.
Can I ask for help here?
I've got 3 displays, right...a 1080p75 and a 4k60/444 on my Nvidia GeForce 1660, and a 1080p60 on my onboard graphics (AMD).
Works reasonably under X11, but can't get 4k60 (only 30) in Wayland. And not really sure I've got 4:4:4, either. Seems prime-select keeps forgetting my setting in Wayland, too.
I'm using tumbleweed with plasma as my desktop.
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This is actually an easy thing to do -- usually. But you might get unlucky with the wrong hardware, as perhaps OP did.
my only issue nowadays is stuttering on wayland.
installing it is actually pretty straightforward on ubuntu.
Probably should've been "installing and using nvidia drivers".
eh, its not that bad nowadays if you arent doing anything fancy. could be better, could be worse.
ill still favor AMD on linux, but nvidia users can use linux now without that much friction. exception is maybe optimus laptops.
It's definitely better than say a year ago, but it's always a new small issue. Like suspend is not working, or shutting the monitor off crashes the graphics stack etc.
I really hope they get their shit together and build a solid wayland support at some (not too distant) time. But the amount of issues is small enough for me that I've switched to it.
they are building nvk. it seems, in typical fashion for them, they are letting the community do it. we are already using the open kernel driver and it works well, and the community is also working on reimplementing it properly.
seems like things will indeed fall into place in a not too distant time.
i'm also not having issues beyond the stutter just yet. in any case, looking forward to get my radeon back from the repair shop.
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