A broken man ( lemmy.world )

art , vor 2 Monaten

It ain't like it used to be. Just upgraded my machine to an Nvidia for the first time in like 10+ years.

sudo apt install nvidia

After a reboot it was smooth as hell. I remember the dark ages. I remember fucking with X.org settings. 😐

summerof69 , vor 2 Monaten

pacman -S nvidia and I've never had any issues. I know that it's not that easy in some other distros, but maybe stop using shitty distros.

platypus_plumba , vor 2 Monaten

This is the most Arch Linux comment I've read in a while. This is easy in most mainstream distros now, but there are exceptions like NixOS or Gentoo, which aren't shitty but are just harder for specific reasons.

3w0 , vor 2 Monaten

AKA compiling them yourself or baking them into the kernels or using DKMS :)

ekZepp , vor 2 Monaten

... and DirectX 12

palordrolap , vor 2 Monaten

Debian has a .deb that does the job.

Unless you have a really old graphics card anyway and then you have to use the .run installer from Nvidia. Pain in the a-- sure, but still not Joker level hurt-the-world madness.

bluewing , vor 2 Monaten

I was broken long before nVidia drivers and Wayland.

I was crushed long ago while trying to compile the driver for a Sound Blaster Gold sound card for Fedora 6 and Mandrake 6. Two weeks and 20 pages of printed out instructions. Two weeks of hell in kernels. It should have worked. The terminal showed no errors and nor did the logs. But no sound came forth. I had to buy a boxed set for Mandrke 7 to get sound.

So here I sit with a fresh install of Fedora 40 on my trusty old Nitro 5 wondering if I should install the nVidia drivers and I hear the silent foot steps of that Sound Blaster........

But hey, at least my printer works.

mlg , vor 2 Monaten

sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia

wow that was easy

tries to run wayland

And that's how I became an x11 shill

FlyingSquid , vor 2 Monaten

On a related note, when did Joaquin Phoenix turn into a younger Jeremy Irons?

gravitas_deficiency , vor 2 Monaten

Oh my god now THAT is some method acting

femboy_bird , vor 2 Monaten

Can i have a turn reposting this outdated moldy meme?

seth , vor 2 Monaten

I did it on Arch and no problems!

Arch, BTW.

Also, I'm told it's going to really fail at some point, but so far, pacman -Syu has worked like a charm.

FatCat , vor 2 Monaten

Downvoted...

shimdidly , vor 2 Monaten

Upvoted...

Akasazh , vor 2 Monaten

I was considering eventually moving to Linux.

Now I'll wait till my current system gets an upgrade

Custodian1623 , vor 2 Monaten

It's really not that bad, especially if you pick a distro like Pop that has the drivers bundled so you don't even need to touch it

baseless_discourse , vor 2 Monaten

LOL, this is a joke, on most popular distro it is quite easy, on ubuntu and mint, it is just clicking a check box and set a password for secureboot.

On fedora is clicking a button, and run a single line of command.

Many distro has nvidia images that don't need any configuration, like popOS, ublue derivates, and vanilla OS etc.

I have been using my old GTX1060 on ublue for couple years now.

I think the complains are most about distro developers needs to do extra work, just because nvidia refuse to play nicely with open source, like everyone else did.

tiredofsametab , vor 2 Monaten

The install part is easy. It's when some update breaks everything that the madness sets in

baseless_discourse , vor 2 Monaten

You just uninstall and reinstall no?

tiredofsametab , vor 2 Monaten

The last time, something hosed my whole install. I stopped using linux for a while after that. I'm stuck on a mac for work, much to my protestation, and I can't justify replacing the graphics card on my personal PC at this moment, so I'm mostly just hanging out in Windows (mostly because I do video editing as well and I have issues with Davinci in Linux that may or may not be related to nvidia).

chemicalwonka , vor 2 Monaten

Because of this I just use AMD

ForgottenUsername , vor 2 Monaten

Same after a long career of nVidia cards, I finally swapped to AMD and have not been disappointed. And its sooooo easy..!

FatCat , vor 2 Monaten

I use AMD. Unfortunately no HDR on GNOME...

ForgottenUsername , vor 2 Monaten

I'm currently giving KDE a whirl, you do get (rough) HDR, but I do miss some of the gnomes polish.

Socsa , vor 2 Monaten

apt install nvidia-driver-xxx?

Sometimes you have to update the kernel headers too I guess.

FatCat , vor 2 Monaten

But who asked?

mortalic , vor 2 Monaten

I just installed fedora 40. Was absolutely amazed when my three monitors just worked. Installed some games and realized I had forgotten to install the Nvidia drivers. Installed them... Laptop locked up wouldn't boot. Unplugged the third monitor and it started working. Screw Nvidia. Not buying another system with their trash. Fix your driver's you selfish POS

FatCat , vor 2 Monaten

Sad situation indeed. This is why AMD plus Mesa is preferable...