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Just put Fedora on my desktop with an RTX 5060 a couple weeks ago. The Nvidia drivers were easy to install but they borked a bit later and it took me an hour or two to fix unfortunately. And sleep doesn't work at all.
Still, the Nvidia driver issues are secondary to the WiFi issues that I've spent so many hours trying to get work, and every time I think it works for good, it breaks again. I'm buying a dongle with a Mediatek MT7601U and hopefully this fixes the WiFi issues for good.
That is so ridiculously accurate. And sad. And infuriating. And then funny again because I am reuglarly going mad with those fucking drivers since I have to work with them on Linux professionally. I hate it. It is funny and tragic. Just like life.
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
Mouse drivers are ridiculous. Over 1 GB for just a freaking mouse driver.
My solution was to pick a distro that came with Nvidia drivers set up already (pop os) and have had zero problems with it.
For me, on CachyOS, there does appear to be some fork of the drivers that the OS maintainers have kept up; I haven't really had any complaints. In my case I don't use ultrawide monitors or any unusual features, but maybe others with specific use cases would struggle more.
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.
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.
No not on wayland as one of my monitors does not behave with the existing options.
It doesn't fix the drivers but for many the installation and set up is where things go wrong. That's how it was for me.
So you haven't had "zero" problems. AFAIK wayland is already usable with AMD since almost a decade or so... (well not every program was supported yet a decade ago obviously, but, at least these kind of issues that Nvidia has/had are non-existing AFAIK).
It doesnβt fix the drivers but for many the installation and set up is where things go wrong. Thatβs how it was for me.
For me it was never the installation, just the risk after updating the drivers that yet another issue appears (sometimes old ones were fixed though, to be fair).
YOTLD wonβt ever happen, but getting NVIDIA drivers in order for seamless experience will definitely increase user base. It might only happen when Nova/Nouveau+NVK are mature enough to take over.
It's happening now tbh. More people across the experience spectrum than ever before are using linux. I'm loving it
Iβm not saying the market wonβt grow, yes, thereβs a lot of traction lately, but itβs blown out of proportions within the Linux bubble. I still donβt see mass adoption and everyone switching over from windows just yet. Especially not within a single year. Perhaps 2030s will be the decade of the Linux on desktop, who knows.
The Year of the Linux Desktop isn't literally when it gains 50%+ marketshare, it's the point in the adoption S curve where it's moved past early adopters and enthusiasts and is starting to be picked up by mainstream users.
That's literally happening now. 2025/26. It's happened. (Past tense).
Now we're in the "watch numbers go up" phase of the S curve, wondering when the second derivative will go negative, as that will signal peak adoption speed.
I'm using it on everything except my gaming rig. Linux is way too much trouble to still get downgraded performance.
Are you using Nvidia? I don't have a windows machine to compare against but I haven't noticed any performance issues
It's a mixed bag. A handful of games have better performance on Linux. Many are in insignificant difference either way. Some report 15-25% lower framerates on Linux. But VR is a massive headache and I have an old Vive VR that isn't getting any love from Linux in the form of support. But even just running Nvidia shouldn't be so problematic. They make the best video cards in the world and I like to game. I'm not going to buy a shittier graphics card just because it plays nicer with FOSS.
Ah the FOSS aspect and that whole ecosystem is really enjoyable to me so I'll often pick the shittier option in terms of fidelity if it let's me have my machine like I like it more generally.
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?
It's a mixed bag, most of the time the desktop cards work fine, but mobile gpus are a little more wonky. Had a desktop rtx 2070 super under endeavoros as well until the last 6 months (even on the sway community edition, which is wayland based), but I have to admit the rx 9070xt that replaced it was much easier to setup and get going with no fuss thus far (plus really easy to undervolt, so I don't use a ton of power as well).
Don't know about 'recently', but I bought a new PC about 2 years ago with a 4070 super, spent about one and a half days trying to get Ubuntu to properly set up drivers, and ended up installing windows instead.
(Due to ongoing enshittification I am considering giving it another go with mint)
I would recommend endevour OS which is based on arch, so you have the latest drivers and kernel always. Ubuntu is always old and may not work properly. Try that one and things will likely just work out of the box.
If you want a just works solution for gaming, try bazzite. I Never had a single hitch
Bazzite or Pop OS. Ubuntu and Mint are not railored for gaming much. You can still play games of coruse, but you will have more better experience on gaming-specific OSes.
I can recommend bazzite if you don't want to tinker much. Install took like half an hour and my 4090 worked out of the box with all games that I tried so far. (Mostly WoW, bg3 and rematch)
Even for tinkering, check out bistrobox that comes installed with it. Stupid simple to just run a Debian (or whatever) container for packages that expect a mutable os
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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.