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Unironically at this point (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Lot's of circlejerking online. I have no doubt that some people have issues while having an nvidia card, and I also have no doubt that in some cases the driver might be to blame.

But unless you fiddle things, go out of your way to "optimize things" by following some random posts or something like that, most common distros handles nvidia drivers properly. The same usual disclaimers applies though; being "bleeding edge" means you'll cut yourself, and all that.

For people that just install a system (and I mean something well known to work, not "the latest craze you absolutely have to replace everything with", it's fine. They (nvidia) even ironed out most of wayland issues for a while now. There are still some minor lingering issues, but nothing most average users will notice.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah, no... If the most basic stuff like controlling your fan speed is broken for literal years (utility needed root permissions, yet using su or sudo made it crash), that's not some fault of users having too esoteric demands but pure and simple Nvidia idiocy.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Minor lingering issues like DP displays not consistently waking up after sleep without a hard power cycle, VRR and HDR being essentially unsupported, and basic driver functions like frame rate limits not working?

    Your average users might notice some of that..

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Running Debian 13 with a 3060ti with Nvidia drivers, 3 monitors mixed DP and HDMI, and as far as I can tell those all work just fine. Save for the VRR, I haven't tested that at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Mixing DP and HDMI works, using DP only causes issues with resume from suspend.

    This is my main problem with these "Nvidia is fine on Linux posts". People have something work in their specific setup, and assume it works in all setups, and that just isn't true.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not assuming it works in all setups. If people only talk about things that don't work though, it doesn't help move people to Linux. I've got a feeling that like with much of anything, the problems seemingly are overblown because those who aren't having problems don't have a reason to say so.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I wouldn't say my setup is that unusual: two monitors and a nvidia GPU from the 2010s. But I am stuck on Ubuntu 24.04 because it still has xorg -- my graphics card is not supported well on Wayland. I actually downgraded from 25.10 back to 24.04 to solve some wild display lag problems.

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