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    [โ€“] RealM__@lemmy.world 3 points 3 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.

    [โ€“] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I use mint on two different machines with Nvidia GPUs. One is a several year old desktop with a 1080 and the other is a two year old Dell laptop with a discrete nvidia GPU in addition to the Intel one on the processor.

    Now granted I donโ€™t play a ton of games right now, and when I do they usually arenโ€™t cutting edge, but I donโ€™t recall many problems so far. I use NVENC for Jellyfin and editing videos more often, and that has been pretty smooth. The one issue I had was related to that though. Kdenlive (flatpak) updated and could no longer export videos because it was looking for a newer version of something my mint-supplied nvidia driver wasnโ€™t yet updated to have.

    Trying to install a newer driver manually was a whole damn thing though, so I rolled back the kdenlive flatpak to the one that worked.

    [โ€“] phorq@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, I used a 1070 on arch for years without any issue, recently switched over to an Intel arc gpu and that gave me way more problems (admittedly most of it was my "fault" for being on an old mbr scheme, needing to enable rebar, and needing to switch from xorg to wayland... but that's just what happens when a graphics card is so stable you don't feel the need to reinstall your os or change anything major). I am not hired by Nvidia nor do I support their business practices when it comes to making development on Linux difficult or creating proprietary standards like cuda, just stating my personal experience with their drivers.

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    [โ€“] swag_money@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    i just upgraded to an AMD card yesterday because of the Nvidia driver nightmare lol

    [โ€“] crawlspace@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

    Yeah same here a few weeks ago. Glad I did though.

    [โ€“] Muffi@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

    laughs in Pop!_OS

    [โ€“] ZachATK@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

    So true! Last week I did a fresh install of Mint with the recommended nvidia drivers, and only installed Brave, Steam, Discord, and Vampire Survivors on my 3080 PC... 15 FPS at best. Tried the open source nvidia drivers and, which stopped Steam from working (so weird). Re-installed steam and Vampire Survivors and still couldn't get anything to work (even tried, and failed, to run a few other games). Boy it would be nice if nvidia put in more work to support Linux. 2025 will be the year for Team Red!

    [โ€“] sidtirouluca@europe.pub 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    i have linux mint LMDE. there i just searched nvidia, found the driver and installed it. wheres the problem?

    [โ€“] ekZepp@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

    Honestly, all it took these days is reading the news.

    [โ€“] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 0 points 3 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

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