this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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Counter to the experiences I usually read about here, I put an Nvidia GPU into my Linux box over the weekend and it just worked immediately.
Now I have no idea if I've been reading the troubles of a vocal minority, or if I should go buy a lotto ticket this weekend. Haha.
There's three types of NVIDIA failures on Linux:
A- The niche thing that doesn't work for the group of people who use it.
B- The specific card model that doesn't work.
C- The distro that for some reason is a nightmare to install the drivers.
Each motive individually is not a lot of people, but all together it is way much more than AMD. Hence the difference.
Also, if you have a type A failure card, there's a probability that maybe it will be fixed eventually. But for type B, you're out of luck. There's a non-zero chance that your card will never work.
Type C is entirely up to user error and distro effort. But it won't help with type A and B. If NVIDIA of fails you, whether you can install the drivers on your distro or not, is irrelevant.
Same boat here, just works, both on my laptop and deksktop.
In fact most of our company runs linux on laptops with nvidia gpu..
The biggest problem i can think of is a distro that doesn't ship the drivers in their package manager. and then it's just following the description on the nvidia website how to install them for your distro.