Iβve learned it best to use nvidia drivers with nvidia cards and the AMD drivers with the AMD cards. I recommend this for performance.
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I haven't had any issues with my nvidia GPU. I did some distro-hopping and didn't have any nvidia issues in any of the distros I tried.
If you want everything to work out of the box, I would recommend Bazzite. Pop! OS had me using the AMD image and fetching the nvidia driver manually (the nvidia image just didn't work for me). After that, everything worked brilliantly.
Bazzite just works unless you have a Gigabyte b550 motherboard. Guess what I have?
No way ? this is what I have. What are the issues ?
Well, can't say for everybody, but i have no trouble running nvidia gpu on Hyprland with nvidia-open drivers. Haven't spotted any troubles with Plasma or MangoWC either, even though i haven't used them for as long.
I'm super annoyed at Fedora workstation at this moment. My 240hz Samsung monitor can't use HDMI to get to 240hz, regardless of the quality of the cable. I have dual monitors and one is already using the type c so one of my monitors have to be 120hz.
That's the thing with AMD drivers, they're the damn near perfect software. Doing lots of stuff yet you'd never know it's there. It stays nicely out of the user's way, you don't even have to think about installing them and shit just works
Then there are the Nvidia drivers
They are not perfect, but their developers β 1 or 2 actually allocated to work on in-kernel drivers, such as Mario Limonciello β almost are.
I used em dashes to avoid a comma party, I promise I am not a LLM bot
I used em dashes to avoid a comma party, I promise I am not a LLM bot
that's what I would say if I was an LLM bot!!
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Intel drivers:
I need an intel driver to turn the fucking useless onboard graphics off. for debian. any tips?
any tips?
My laptop has this option in the bios settings 
Not sure if it's only for laptops but you could check there.
I checked, it's the easiest option and isn't on my stupid MSI motherboard
Leave it to budget boards to exclude every possible useful setting but keep "boot from lan"
when I bought this fucker for Β£800 in 2018, I assure you it did not feel budget.
I think it's more of a
Open drivers vs proprietary drivers
I run a legacy NVIDIA graphics in my ten year old laptop. GeForce 750M. The proprietary drivers are faster and have real video acceleration but havenβt been updated in forever and donβt support Wayland.
Nouveau works okay. I havenβt gotten video acceleration to work yet, even with installed firmware. Nouveau-vulkan is a bit buggy.
Stupid question but worth asking, has Mint caught up with the latest generation of AMD GPUs yet? I tried to install it as a first OS right after building my current PC when those cards came out and it... it did not go well.
That pretty much just comes down to the Linux kernel being used afaik.
So figure out which version of the kernel supports your GPU and compare it to the one that Mint ships with.
When you want to do GPU processing for AI, crypto, video editing, etc, though, this gets reversed.
Getting Cuda working on Linux with an nvidia card is relatively painless. Just a few well-documented commands, worked on the first try.
I could never get AMD's equivalent to work on Linux, though, and it led me down a horrible rabbit-hole of trying a dozen different driver versions from a dozen different places, all with their own unique and quirky ways of installing... And it still never did work.
ROCM is pretty simple. It's just no where near as robust and supported as Cuda.
Thats just poor distro support, kind of like CUDA in the past.. ROCM should "just work" if it's shipped right. But it's not really a priority with maintainers.
Now, if you're trying to run CUDA stuff with ROCM, that's a whole different story. The bast majority of GPU software has extremely poor ROCM support compared to CUDA, and some of this is definitely from AMD footgunning.
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15 years ago this was true lol
3 years ago this was true. Not sure if nvidia works properly with wayland even now, though at least the trend is different now
It has no issues, NVIDIA just works these days (if you use a distro where you can choose to use proprietary drivers for it during installation)
I mean yeah, but thatβs a little like saying βcomputers all have WiFi capabilities these days, as long as you only buy motherboards with built in WiFi.β Itβs a pretty large limitation to place on the userβs choice. Especially when Linux users like to meme about certain distros being better or worse.
It used to be that there was no option at all, on any distro. You'd have the broken proprietary drivers, or the open source reverse engineered one with half the performance and unreliability in specialty features.
Since then Nvidia has shifted focus to get their drivers working properly, and there were also changes making them more open source, tho I'm not sure that'd mean the "proprietary driver" will go full foss at some point.
If op is to be believed, the proprietsry driver is already a lot more stable, so it's now a software licensing issue not an unfixable technical issue.
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i'd argue it was the opposite back then. i have PTSD from fglrx
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I'm running wayland with nvidia-open and nvidia-utils packages, and have never encountered any driver issues in both graphics and compute.
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i wish i could go to an amd card but i just upgraded my video card (geforce rtx 4060 ti) like 3 months before i decided to move to linux :(
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Well, can't say for everybody, but i have no trouble running nvidia gpu on Hyprland with nvidia-open drivers. Haven't spotted any troubles with Plasma or MangoWC either, even though i haven't used them for as long.
Same experience, it has worked flawlessly for me too!
AMD should make drivers for nVidia hardware. π€·ββοΈ
They'd probably work better than Nvidia's
On one hand, setting up complicated stuff is a challenge and also fun.
On the other hand, I don't wanna pay a company doing propreitery stuff.
On the other feet, prices are increasing due to chatbot girlfriend arms race between richest dudes on earth; are GPUs really even worth it anymore?
Intel be like that skeleton at the bottom underwater
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