"btw can you please install the latest nvidia drivers?"
"latest?"
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Why do I need latest? Why do I need even know version of a driver for my hardware?
NVIDIA drivers still suck on Linux, but each new update has been bringing massive usability improvements lately.
Since the drivers continue to be worked on after the release of the hardware. Some new functionality for new games may be developed. Or bugs may be fixed.
Seems like a dishonest question. Unless you are only using GPU compute professionally with out of date software.
Honestly...
You'd figure people who go out of their way to buy a nice GPU would understand this.
Someone I personally knew almost gave up on Linux because their mint install would have screen tearing issues due to an outdated driver module and kernel, since Mint follows close to Ubuntu's kernel releases which are slow.
Cutting edge and bleeding edge kernels is one of Linux's biggest strengths because 99% of driver modules are in the kernel, so keeping it up to date will significantly reduce the chances of issues with your hardware, especially if its anything new.
You dont need to know the version, but knowing that your updates are based on cutting edge latest stable is what can save you from driver headaches.
It's useful to have updated drivers if a game or something isn't working, otherwise it's hardly a big deal, just need to keep the sysyem as up to date as it needs to run your sysyem, i'm on mint since October and never uad any headaches, even updates drivers recently to try to resolve an issue.
I'm still kinda surprised to hear that people are still having trouble with Nvidia drivers. I would have thought that Nvidia would have decided to improve that because of the AI boom. I wonder why they continue being so bad at this π€
That is because nearly all of nvidia's revenue comes from AI datacenter hardware now, and before that from crypto miners. As long as CUDA works without issue, their main clients by dollar volume are happy
Have 2 Monitors with different screen resolutions. It crashes more often than windows 95 when I try to alt tab between applications.
Try to install Fedora 43 everything goes perfectly installation finished without any problems. Restart and bam I'm in my bios. Restart thinking it'a fluke, bam back to bios. Try again with a different setup USB bam bios... Ask around try what people are saying bam back to bios... This happened to me on old MSI laptop from 2015 and the new Asus from 2024... I'm beginning to think Fedora is allergic to me.
That's a weird-un. I moved to Fedora specifically because I wanted a no-nonsense distro, and for the last 7 years it's delivered on various desk- and laptops, knock-on-wood.
Yeah it's very weird, but that's my luck. Weird problems finds me. I'm happy with my cachyOS setup so, can't complain much.
It's probably a bootloader issue. Either grub got misconfigured, or uegi/msdos shenanigans.
Tried almost everything about it. Nothing worked. I spend a good amount of time to solve it. Fun fact Nobara was also doing the same bios trick. I asked around their discord as well and they couldn't help me either.
This sounds very odd. I have tinkered with countless of systems (since 15+ years), I never had an unresolved issue with installing a distro. What is usually the issue? It installs fine by doesn't boot? Do you make it till the grub menu?
Yes it's odd and people whom I talked to told me they also hear about it first time. I download the iso verify put it on the USB, boot into USB setup comes no problems partition or other wise no error, no messages. Everything install normally. There is no grub nothing, restart the laptop and boot directly into bios.
It sounds like bios shenanigans, secure boot or Legacy mode enabled or so. If grub doesn't show up, I would try to go into bios, and override the boot choice to see it would work. Disable legacy and make sure the compatibility. But indeed, sounds very niche.
I've been there done that. Tried all the bios settings. Nothing worked.
Computers have a personality and preference of distro based on their hardware
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