• DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Why does everyone always complain about Nvidia support on Linux? I’ve been using Nvidia GPUs on Ubuntu and Debian for years and it has never required any more effort than ‘sudo apt install nvidia-driver’.

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      5 months ago

      It’s not difficult to install the drivers. I recently had to swap out my 3090 for an AMD card because Wayland just crashes and works poorly with Nvidia.

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        5 months ago

        You should probably rephrase that to say Nvidia crashes and works poorly with Wayland.

        Saying Wayland works badly with Nvidia is a bit like saying Linux doesn’t support Photoshop, rather than the other way around.

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            5 months ago

            Not really, the wording completely changes who is at fault.

            When you say Wayland doesn’t work for Nvidia, it’s blaming Wayland, but Linux/Wayland isn’t at fault here, Nvidia is for providing drivers that aren’t fit for purpose.

            If Nvidia drivers broke on Windows, nobody would say “Windows is broken for Nvidia”, they’d say the opposite, but with Linux we act like the problem is Wayland, for some reason.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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      5 months ago

      In my experience newer kernels and Wayland + nvidia is a huge mess.

      I switched to AMD and have had 0 downtime, all the cool features nvidia touts, and fully working Wayland with no effort at all.