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Loving PopOS but apparently I can't get the latest Nvidia driver? (Your regularly scheduled "What Distro should I use" thread) (ttrpg.network)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Basically the title. Loving PopOS as my daily, but I understand that PopOS uses their own process and makes sure that only a checked driver gets wide release. Great for stability, less great for playing games that just came out. Is there a distro that this community generally recommends for gaming?

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[–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I second the "Do not use manjaro". It has incredibly many issues that arch doesn't have and the only advantage is that it comes with an installer.

Arch with nvidia is a bit of a pain though. The nvidia driver updates break my system or some games every 1-2 months.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Also the new Arch install script is very easy and reduces the need for Manjaro, even for new users.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    I disagree, it just does the steps in the manual for you. You still need to know what's happening.

    I tried using it, got a bunch of python stack traces and eventually decided to do it manually. The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

    An installer needs to catch stuff like that, so archinstall is beta at best.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    On the one hand, you're right. But on the other, the fuck is Windows even doing here:

    The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Tell me if I'm wrong or that's not what you meant. But your Nvidia problem should go away as soon as you use nvidia-dkms (or nvidia-open-dkms) instead of the regular nvidia package (or nvidia-open). I haven't had any problems (of that kind) in a long time.

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