• Omega@discuss.online
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    2 months ago

    it’s the same as installing programs on your pc, the biggest issue would be that you have to use a cli because I dont know if you can install Nvidia drivers via gui

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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. 😔

    • CoffeeGhost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The memes are extremely outdated at this point. I’ve 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 it’s perfect, but my issues have been more from me rocking arch Linux and breaking my system than Nvidia issues

    • dev_null@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

    • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’ve had wireless working in linux since 2002. 802.11b was complex but quick. I was still running slackware back then.

  • drinkwaterkin@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I remember around 15 years ago I was excited to get my first computer with a dedicated graphics card, a laptop with Nvidia Optimus. It was also around the time I was just beginning to get into Linux. I found an Ubuntu forum post with detailed instructions on installing Ubuntu and setting it up properly on that exact laptop, so I tried to follow that.

    It didn’t help that I was unfamiliar with using the terminal at the time. But even so, this was before tools like Bumblebee were in a usable state (is Bumblebee still the preferred way to use Optimus?). I remember getting to the part about graphics switching and seeing some messy confusing hack for it. I don’t remember the specifics, but I think it involved importing a script and using diff to patch something. And I think all it did was just disable the very gpu I was looking forward to trying out.

    I jumped back and forth between distros and Windows 7 a lot at that time. But it was such a shitty experience all because of Nvidia that I have never purchased any of their products since then. I’ve owned a lot of computers in that time, and I’m just one customer lost. I hope Nvidia looks at AMD sales and wonders how many of them are users that Nvidia lost because things like that.

  • RealM__@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Honestly, I’ve never had this problem. Two GPUs, two clicks in the gui driver manager.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    This is actually an easy thing to do – usually. But you might get unlucky with the wrong hardware, as perhaps OP did.

      • turnip@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          Not trying to criticize you or anything, just genuinely asking - why is it so much worse to turn your computer off when you’re done with it than putting it to sleep?

      • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I installed a Nvidia 3060 earlier this year. Ran the command, rebooted the system, everything works fine.

        • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 months ago

          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

  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Installing’s easy. Does it work? No 🫠 I still can’t daily drive linux because how shitty NVIDIA’s drivers are

    • Smee@poeng.link
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      2 months ago

      I can daily drive linux just fine on 3060ti, the Ollama CUDA AI acceleration works without a single issue straight out of the box.

      I do want to be able to game on my main rig though, but that’s what I have a laptop with an Intel low-end integrated GFX card for.

    • RustyNova@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Depends on what distro you used. What’s the distro, driver version and graphic card did you try?

      • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        NixOS (same problem, all distros) 570 drivers, RTX 3060

        Currently on hyprland, same issue with sway/other wlroots compositors (KDE/GNOME work fine-ish, but i prefer compositors and they’re full of worse NVIDIA bugs on their own)

        The problem’s with proton (or DXVK? Dunno) and how input delay increases heavily with V-Sync enabled. Unfortunately i have to use v-sync, so just dealing with it isn’t a choice for me, sorry

        • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz
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          2 months ago

          complains about linux being complicated

          uses NixOS

          I think I found your issue… Most Linux distros just work nowadays.

        • histic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Did you enable all the hyprland NVIDIA tweaks im running a 3070 on nix hypr and had issues but after setting all the nvidia tweaks and env variables I’ve had no issue with vsync and playing games with bad input lag and I play competitive shooters so I can tell

          • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            2 months ago

            If by tweaks you mean:

            MODULES=(… nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm …)

            options nvidia_drm modeset=1 fbdev=1

            env = LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME,nvidia

            env = __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME,nvidia

            Then yeah :/ Could you possibly share the relevant parts of your config please? TIA

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • funkajunk@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Run this command:
      sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

      Probably shouldn’t be asking for tech support in the Linux meme community.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
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      2 months ago

      Not the right place to ask. Try the official forums of your distro, or one of the many Linux communities on Lemmy.

      4k60/444

      Is that HDR? I can tell you right now that HDR is still experimental on all Wayland compositors (Plasma seems to be the farthest along, but still not reliable), and will never be implemented in X11.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        2 months ago

        Not quite HDR, similar but different.

        4:4:4 refers to chroma subsampling. Essentially how much bandwidth is available for chroma and luma. 4:4:4 allows for an 4x2 array of pixels to each be unique colors, which isn’t possible with 4:2:2 or 4:2:0.

        It’s a feature you really want when using a 4k TV for a monitor (as I am) because without it, text can be very fuzzy and difficult to read. Especially certain color combinations (i.e. red-on-black, as Konsole will do when there’s an error).

    • SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Same here. I’ve always grabbed the latest drivers from the Nvidia page and installed the dot run file manually from a command line. From there everything just works.

    • Addv4@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s mostly when you’re trying to optimize for power on a non standard distro. By default, they’re kinda a power hog but you can sorta turn off the gpu when not in use, it’s just fininky because Nvidia doesn’t want open source drivers that can go that low level. Thankfully don’t have to worry about it anymore after getting a non-Nvidia laptop for my latest daily.

      • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social
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        2 months ago

        Funny thing is… I was gonna get my PC with an AMD card, but because the one I wanted was out of stock I got upgraded (depending on how you want to look at it) to an nvidia one :3

        I may go AMD next time I swap it, but as I’ve not had any problems as of yet, im not in a major rush

    • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      As long as I revert to the open source driver before doing major OS upgrades I haven’t had issues either in years. Last time I tried AMD though it was a shit show.

    • Endmaker@ani.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social
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        2 months ago

        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