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Definitely envious of them. I can't get a stable system and I'm convinced wayland+nvidia are the culprit.
Firefox randomly crashes, steam randomly crashes, CS2 randomly crashes, plasma desktop randomly freezes (requires hardware button reset), haruna randomly crashes. I've never had a more unstable system. I'm greeted with 3 notifications of some process crashing at every boot.
I'd love to fully switch, but I cant have a system where things randomly crash like that. All this on latest Fedora KDE and I'm fairly certain I have everything needed installed from the driver side of things. On two year old hardware.
Its such a different experience from running a headless debian system.
I have been running Bazzite (with KDE) and an Nvidia GPU (RTX 3070) for almost 6 months and I have not had any issues.
Everything worked with no additional tweaks. I was playing Dead Space (2023) almost half an hour after installing the OS, it was amazing. If you have the time, you should give it a try, I highly recommend it.
I'm sorry to hear that! I've been having good experiences with Wayland + NVIDIA on both Ubuntu 25.10 and EndeavourOS (whatever version is the latest). There are minor annoyances, but nothing as dire as what you're describing.
I may need to look at other distros a bit, but KDE is non negotiable for me. I hope its not plasma that's the problem.
I've been on Kubuntu with a RTX gpu for the past year. No crashes, no problems. For the April release I swapped to Wayland and it also works fine. I think Wayland has better gui scaling and multi monitor support too.
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Maybe kde is the problem? I use Wayland + Nvidia and before xorg. I never liked kde it was always buggy for me so I haven't used it for many years but when I did was it xorg + Nvidia on Manjaro. But since I went with other DEs have I never had any problems.
Same, I use KDE with Wayland as well.
I couldn't get Fedora working well with Nvidia. Bazzite worked for me out of the box. Bazzite is just Fedora with some out of the box configurations, so it must be possible to make Fedora work with Nvidia. I am just not capable of making it work.
I am happy with Bazzite though.
I'll think about it, but I'll need to adjust my perspectives a little lol. I'm not a fan of immutable systems because I'm not a fan of containerized applications.
I don't know what I'm doing, I just installed some Arch thing and so far everythings worked - although my hdd is sluggish compared to my old windows install.
I recommend investing in an nvme for os installs and use the HDD as data storage.
Please try memtest86. I had issues that almost looked like this.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it and see if there's anything wrong there, though I don't expect it since windows works fine.
Just use Xorg. Wayland is notorious for Nvidia issues.
One in a while there is an issue with CS2 for me too, but it's usually because of fullscreen/windowed mode and the window manager being aggressive. Try turning it off/on with launch parameters.