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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by EherVielleicht@feddit.de to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] Rendh@feddit.de 31 points 11 months ago

And what are Nvidia users supposed to do?

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 32 points 11 months ago

I have never had problems with Nvidia drivers on Linux mint detects them and ask if you want to install the official drivers

[-] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 9 points 11 months ago

LMDE didn’t install the DKMS modules on my kid’s PC, so the nVidia drivers never loaded after a new kernel got installed. I do enough tech support at work so we chucked Pop!_OS on the PC (and set it up with btrfs and timeshift-autosnap) instead. No more problems.

May not be a problem with mainline Mint, of course, but there are weirdos like me who prefer the Debian edition.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Don't be ashamed of using Debian!

[-] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

Far from it, Debian is one of my favorites, though I run EndeavourOS on my main machine.

It’s Linux Mint Debian Edition that’s the oddball, but in a good way.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

That's untill you switch to Wayland and realize just how shotty Nvidia's support can be.

[-] janAkali@lemmy.one 18 points 11 months ago

They're supposed to buy an AMD card, obviously. /s

[-] Rendh@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago

I wish AMD had a competitive 4090 alternative

[-] FediMan@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

Use POP OS which has NVIDIA Drivers in the iso

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 5 points 11 months ago

Or Nobara that has a dedicated Nvidia install tool in its welcome screen

[-] RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately it has weird issues with my bog standard Intel HP Omen laptop and a 2060 GPU.

Basically any kind of sleep mode kills the GPU. I have go into Display settings and force a re-detect to wake it. Kind of a pain when you use the laptop connected to an external monitor with the lid closed.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

...to let the distro pick the best driver for you? That's what I do at least.

[-] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

I'm starting to wonder if this is a meme or if people are actually having problems.

[-] Rendh@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Less about problems and more about performance/features in games. How much of a hassle is it to get dlss, ray tracing etc running? How's the performance impact from not properly supported drivers.