If I had a dollar for every time the Nvidia driver screwed me over I still couldn’t order anything with it because my graphics driver wouldn’t load.

  • HStone32@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 小时前

    Nvidia hardware is great for anything besides gaming/daily driving. I use my nvidia card all the time for re-encoding large video files in h264. As soon as I can afford an amd though, video encoding will become the only thing I use nvidia for.

  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
    6·
    1 天前

    Nobara Linux has a dedicated driver manager to automate the process of managing NVIDIA drivers. I ran a 2060 for almost a year on Nobara with no issues thanks to the manager. I’m on AMD now and forevermore.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    50·
    2 天前

    RTX 3080 owner here. I get a black screen whenever I try to play a game after the desktop goes to sleep in Linux Mint. The only workaround is to restart the PC and play it before its screensaver comes on. The struggle is real.

    • RustyNova@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 天前

      Hey! I had the same issue on my RTX3070! What you need is to install the latest Nvidia driver. Those are not available by default and requires you to add the Ubuntu PPA, then you are able to switch with the driver manager gui

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
      201·
      2 天前

      Try a distro with a recent kernel and install newest proprietary nvidia drivers

      Like fedora, openSuse TW, bazzite or endeavourOS

      • dan@upvote.au
        14·
        2 天前

        install newest proprietary nvidia drivers

        On newer cards, the open source drivers work pretty well as of version 555. The process for installing them is usually very similar to the proprietary drivers, but there’s often some flag you need to set to tell it to use the open source ones instead. For Fedora, the instructions are here: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Kernel_Open (ignore the part about it only working for data center GPUs, as that’s no longer true)

        sudo sh -c 'echo "%_with_kmod_nvidia_open 1" > /etc/rpm/macros.nvidia-kmod'
sudo akmods --kernels $(uname -r) --rebuild

        If you use Nvidia’s installer, it automatically uses the open source driver instead of the proprietary one if you have a new enough GPU (20 series or newer)

    • Monstrosity@lemm.eeEnglish
      141·
      2 天前

      I might recommend PopOs. It is also based on Ubuntu, is easy to use for beginners & tailored specifically for use with Nvidia. I’ve had great luck w/ my laptop that has Optimus.

      Test it with a USB first. The link I provided is an alpha version of their latest release but you can also try the older, more stable version here.

  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 天前

    This was me with my 4070. Eventually figured it out, but WOW does Nouveau suck until you get the drivers working. Still, loving Fedora 42 more than Windows 10, so I’m not going back.

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      7·
      1 天前

      To be fair, Nouveau did phenomenal work (reverse-engineering the driver) they shouldn’t have had to do if it wasn’t for Nvidias stubbornness. Especially for older cards it’s the way to go, and it really isn’t their fault the proprietary driver sucks so much. Since Nvidia now finally fixes their shit with the new driver (hopefully) it wouldn’t make sense to put too much work into supporting any RTX card anymore.

    • nuko147@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 天前

      AMD and Intel have almost the same performance on Linux. NVIDIA has not though. I had something 10-15% less fps with my RTX 3070, even with a gaming distro, latest NVIDIA drivers running and proton-GE.

      • Botzo@lemmy.world
        12·
        2 天前

        Been experiencing random rendering glitches in Firefox since upgrading to 570.

        Before that it was random video memory allocation faults after playing a game for some time.

        And then there was the whole year where Wayland stopped working entirely after finally getting support.

        But I guess you’re right, it’s definitely miles better than when I got the cursed thing 5 years ago.

        • Batsertje@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 天前

          Bro my Cinnamon desktop just broke. It refused to load anymore. Could not fix it until I popped in my old AMD card, then Cinnamon magically worked again.

          I suspect the drivers shat the bed but I’m not 100% sure. Went ahead and bought a new AMD card anyway and it works like a dream now.

        • Senseless@feddit.org
          6·
          2 天前

          I can only say that I currently don’t have any issues. There are a lot or variables though, so as you’re saying, your milage may vary.

    • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      2 天前

      It is alot better, I keep hesitating on dropping the money for an equivalent amd card. I keep telling myself I’ll do vfio and try looking glass. Then I look into the config and shudder. I can deal with a restart a day.

    • GoldenQuetzal@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 天前

      Can confirm anecdotally. Put Bazzite on my Intel laptop, works like a dream. Couldn’t install any distro - any - on my PC running a 4080. Had other friends test it and they couldn’t either. Switched to AMD, zero issues just like Intel. What do I need a superpowered card for when most of the games I play are from 2016 anyway lmao

      • yonder@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 天前

        Intel is almost flawless, I say as someone who uses an Intel A750. It does have a bug where putting load on the GPU causes a dramatic increase in latency for GPU compute tasks, but that’s mostly only important for VR. Flatscreen games work great.

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    15·
    2 天前

    Why I bought a steam deck even though I have a laptop that’s better (although a lot older) mainly because my laptop won’t work with Linux (yes including the latest drivers) because of the fucking Nvidia won’t work properly.

    Although tbh I rather play games on my steam deck with potato quality just because it’s portable

  • xektop@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 天前

    endeavourOS with Nvidia since 1,5 years… First on x11, and before several months moved to Wayland. Never had an issue related to the GPU. I’m not sure if the other distros have really such big problems or it’s meme propaganda, that Linux isn’t ready?

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      10·
      2 天前

      EndeavourOS shipped with the driver, right? Distros that do so tend to have the fewest problems with it, so you dodged a bullet there. A lot of problems arise during its install process or updates due to inconsistent integration or simply Nvidias incompetence (the driver module suddenly missing or not properly loading on a new kernel, stuff like that).

      • xektop@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 天前

        I see, the OS installs it and I don’t have to do anything else after installation. I understand now what most people with Nvidia have to go through if they are forced to use a specific distro. I just assumed that most distros will handle that as well for the user.

        • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 小时前

          I tried endeavourOS, Garuda, pure arch, all with newest KDE plasma and automatically or manually installing NVIDIA drivers, games work, but I have never been able to get resume from sleep or hibernation working. I have a GTX 1080 ti. I’ve tried everything I can find in forums but nothing has worked

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 天前

    What’s the deal with Linux and Nvidia? Do the official drivers suck, or is it people not wanting to use a closed source driver but not having good open source drivers? I might have access to a good gaming PC soon but it has an Nvidia card.

    • DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 小时前

      I have never had to do anything more than sudo apt install nvidia-driver, even with wacky setups such as:

      • Nvidia GPU connected with an ExpressCard eGPU dock to a ThinkPad with integrated Intel graphics
      • two Nvidia GPUs, an AMD GPU and an Intel GPU all in the same system

      EDIT: debian btw

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      17·
      2 天前

      The current official Nvidia driver is known to cause problems during install, during system updates or basically whenever it feels like it (when using Wayland, after hibernation, on rainy days…). Even the most well maintained distros regularly struggle with it, ran into trouble on both Mint and OpenSuse myself in the past.

      If you don’t have your distro already I’d suggest trying one that comes with the Nvidia driver preinstalled (they then also usually take care of all the small adjustments). Saves you some headache.

      Those I can currently think off that ship the proprietary driver (in no particular order): ZorinOS, Pop!_OS, Nobara, Bazzite, EndeavourOS, TuxedoOS, SlimbookOS

    • dev_null@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 天前

      I use Nvidia on Linux for over a decade now, never had a problem. Using the official closed source drivers. I don’t know if AMD is better because I never tried it myself, but in my experience Nvidia is working as well as on Windows.

      This is on desktop, I don’t know about laptops. My experience is also limited to gaming, maybe it’s bad for CUDA or something.

    • dan@upvote.au
      6·
      2 天前

      The drivers have gotten a lot better over the last few years, and Nvidia even have an official open-source driver now, but there’s still issues with them. Wayland works very well now, but not perfectly (especially on GPUs with low VRAM).

      If you’re on Linux and are buying a new GPU, stick to AMD. Their driver is part of the Linux kernel, it’s more stable, and it gets all the newest features first.

      • OwlHamster@lemm.ee
        4·
        1 天前

        As a game developer I would suggest the opposite. Never had a report that came down to an Nvidia graphics card, however AMD will randomly introduce game breaking bugs in their Linux driver and leave it unfixed for years.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
    73·
    2 天前

    And now* nvidia launched Nova, instead of contributing to Nuveau for some reason. It’s like they want to take wind out of Nouveau.