I get if you're buying 5080 and up hardware, there's no other competitors there. 5070 and lower, buy AMD or Intel. 9070 (xt) are great graphics cards. The 9060xt is great. You can go down to 7600xt, A770, B580, etc and have a graphics card very capable of gaming and they work straight out the box. No proprietary driver frictions. I use a 9070. I'll be good for another 5+ years. GPU upgrade. Maybe a CPU upgrade since I'm AM5 based. No motherboard/memory changes

anyone knows what kinda driver that isn't nouveau works for a GT750M? @mlg@lemmy.world which did you use for your 750ti?

got a Macbook Pro 2013 motherboard (i7-4850, 16 GB DDR3, GT750M 2 GB) that I'm thinking of turning into a desktop. no gaming intended, although welcome if possible (old titles).

Fuck Nvidia and their powering AI systems for Netayahu's genocide. Team Red all the way.

Nvidia supports 13 year old hardware and newest kernels with 580. At some point when running your 14 year old GPU one might consider just running the open source nouveau after all I assume that if you are running a 14 year old GPU you probably don't need the utmost possible performance or you might consider getting a 4 year old AMD for $100 to replace your 14 year old nvidia.

Whilst it would be ideal for you not to have to look up anything ever nvidia will tell you which driver to use with your hardware

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/

If you are feeling frisky you could synthesize the already available data into a script that tells you the same thing. Linux Mint has a GUI for this which tells you which version is recommended for your hardware and your total commitment is clicking install and rebooting.

Depending how old the GPU is, Nouveau or the other one may lead to better results by now.

On my desktop with a 2060 it's zero issue, but on my 940M hybrid video laptop it's been spicy at times.

Usually updates without an issue, and the most I need to do is delay the -settings package update until after the rest. (IIRC, see what I mean 😄).

Haha I just spent the last 2 days trying to get nvidia to work on arch. Its my first time using arch but I did end up getting the drivers to work by removing the default one and installing the dkms drivers. Still a pain in the ass though.

I gave up on my old 970 and switched to an AMD card (you don't even have to install the drivers for AMD GPUs, they're just baked into the Linux kernel).

Turns out, performance is degraded for GTX 9xx series cards on Linux even if you get the drivers working. I'm glad I discovered that because otherwise, I'd have probably thought I still had a driver issue even if I had gotten it working.

I'm lucky that I have the benefit to choose and can use another GPU brand that is open source and integrated to the kernel.

Not to act smug but this is one area where I see akmod seem to work better than dkms which is weird considering they should both produce the same result.

The image for the post is amazing lmao

What’s this meme from? Is it a babadook still?

I suppose I'm lucky. Catchy installed the Nvidia driver during the install and works/ updates without issue. I've got an older card, but not ancient. gtx1660

I did have issues when I first switched to Linux, but that was on Debian.

LOL Oofta, that was me years ago fighting for my life on an NVIDIA optimus GPU and trying to game on Linux. Total shitshow, I might have to abandon NVIDIA with my next upgrade when the prices come down, AMD is a bit better on Linux (my Ryzen is thriving and surviving on Garuda Linux). Can't wait to get a full AMD build and not have to worry about NVIDIA making things weird.

I have to reinstall the driver for my ancient 1070Ti pretty much every update.

Wow this is just what I needed I think

It took me days to get my nvidia gpu working correctly. Due to being wayland I can't use steamlink to stream to my Steam Deck and issues with VLC glitchy, pixeled playback. Otherwise everything works perfectly.

Then you have your very “picky” old nvidia GPU which works only with a specific old nvidia driver and if you try to install anything else, there will be a conflict.

I just use TKG's installer, it's pretty much fixed all of my NVIDIA-related problems:

git clone https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all
cd nvidia-all
makepkg -si

The default is vulkan-beta drivers via DKMS. You may need to manually install linux-headers but you may already have it installed from other DKMS-related activities.