Upgraded to an AMD card and suddenly Linux became perfectly reliable.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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I had a 3060 and it wasn't that Linux wasn't reliable but it occasionally would receive an update that would require a video card driver update as well. I bought a 9070xt, sold the 3060, and haven't had a single issue since.
Yeah, the nVidia shituation is much better than a decade+ ago, nowdays I just have to manually pause upgrades (of drivers, kernel, or both) for a few weeks once evey two years or so.
I need to buy me some AMD. And AMD/Intel needs to build some high end GPU (for consumers I mean).
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ugh even worse if you have a hybrid laptop. integrated amd and discrete nvidia.
Kids, learn from me, do NOT buy an ASUS ROG Strix. less than 5 years old and thing is already on its deathbed with constant reboots and hanging at POST.
I'll do you one better: do not buy ANYTHING made by Asus. That stuff's built to fail as fast as possible.
So far i've always had good luck with their motherboards, granted those are the only things from asus that i've bought, and my current motherboard is from 2019 i think.
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Yes I have the same on my laptop from work. It's a Lenovo with integrated AMD, but also dedicated Nvidia for certain engineering applications that don't play nice with integrated AMD.
Work doesn't allow me to install Linux on the thing and some of the applications we use for work don't run under Linux anyways. But I investigated if it would be possible, so I could decide to go pester IT asking if I could. I researched and found the same answer everywhere, it's a pain in the ass and nothing but trouble. The main workaround is to completely disable the Nvidia chip, which obviously means not having access to that performance if required.
Would be really nice if this somewhat common use case could just work out of the box.
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I don't think that is a function of the nvidia GPU save that ANY discrete GPU will cause increased wear on battery and heat. Also something that starts out with 6 hours battery and now has 2 is a lot less useful than something which had 10 and now has 6.
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My Nvidia driver has worked flawlessly in Fedora for the past 3 years. Not a single issue.
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I have a 3090 that I will replace with an AMD card the second it makes financial sense for me.
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If you don't have a video card, you don't have (video) driver issues.
Serial terminal gang represent!
I haven't had issues in ages, with Fedora at least. My laptop has NVIDIA and my desktop has AMD. Both are pretty stable.
Regular desktop stuff and gaming usually works fine. Problems start cropping up when you try to use some more advanced GPU-powered apps, or do development yourself. I've encountered even older OpenGL apps that fail to start unless you force them to use the Mesa software renderer.
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I'm having no trouble on mine on CachyOS thankfully. Playin my games just fine. I'm sad I didn't kick Microslop sooner, it's been great honestly with all the tinkering and control I have. Not only did I get a performance lift, but my PC actually feels...like it's mine I guess?
No issues on Mint though
I managed to get hibernate working on opensuse with an Nvidia card, so I guess I'm lucky as hell.
No you fucking didnβt.
I had to remember that I'm trans and furry and channel that energy during drive partitioning.
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My solution was to pick a distro that came with Nvidia drivers set up already (pop os) and have had zero problems with it.
Me too, Bazzite. That doesn't solve that it runs 15-25% slower than windows in heavy games. Thank god I play mostly indie games.
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That doesn't improve the quality of the drivers though... But you seem to not have had issues yet... Are you on wayland though?
There's always a new issue. One time I can't resume of suspending (I think this is still an issue...). Then shutting off a monitor leads to a crash of the driver-stack. I could go on. Just the fact that Nvidia took so long to support GBM properly is a tragedy.
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Use Bazzite or one of its sister distros.
This is the only reason I use a "gaming* distro. They took the single biggest pain in the ass, and made sure it works out of the box. Yes, there are other challenges (immutable distros have a learning curve) but overall I'm very happy with Bazzite.
immutable distros have a learning curve
Fr, I've been on Bazzite for months, and I learned last month that /usr/local isn't protected, which is now how I've installed mergerFS
Arch just seems to work. Though I am also not seeing a single distro in this thread listed as having issues.
I'm on endeavouros (arch) with an rtx 3060 and haven't had any issues whatsoever in a few years, are people having more nvidia problems lately or something?
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Maybe Microslop is secretly paying Nvidia to be shit specifically on Linux?
Doesn't even have to pay. With the way Microsoft pushes AI, Nvidia gets their share automatically.
Maybe itβs because mine is old, but my NVIDIA card never interfered with running Mint.
Mint has worked fine with my 1060, 2060, and now 3060.
5070 checking in on Mint, runs fine.
Things currently stopping "YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP"
- Anti cheat
- Adobe
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Nvidia
- No availability of Linux PCs in physical stores
These but to a lesser degree
- AutoCAD
- Obscure research/academic/industrial software
- Music production software
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Dunno, every single major problem I had in the last couple of years (including few month on windows) were caused by bad AMD drivers. Had to switch to wayland in large part to avoid that goddamn hw_done/flip_done timeout bug. And still, if anything tries to use VA-API it freezes the entire desktop with amdgpu_cs_ioctl reports "not enough memory for command submission". And it also recently started to not recognize the monitor plugged into it after booting, saying kernel: workqueue: dm_irq_work_func [amdgpu] hogged CPU for >10000us 4 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND, so I have to re-plug it a few times for it to start working.
Nvidia, on the other hand? Not a single hitch so far.
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Still is. I had to reinstall linux the other day because Nvidia fucked everything up. It wasn't the first time.
I use btrfs with snapshots now.
To be fair the windows driver situation isn't much better. last time I started windows on a computer I cared about, it tried to find a new driver for my mouse for some reason and in the process deleted all the profiles I had configured on the mouse
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I mean, Nvidia drivers have been shitty on windows too as of late
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