• one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 days ago

    Does anyone else feel like this is meme hasn’t aged well? There was a point where it was true, but now I would say installing up to date drivers on Linux and maintaining them is easy than Windows…

  • Sprawl@lemmy.world
    56·
    10 days ago

    I’ve learned it best to use nvidia drivers with nvidia cards and the AMD drivers with the AMD cards. I recommend this for performance.

    • Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      9 days ago

      Thank you for posting this!! I can’t get an erection. I tried using an AMD driver the other day with my NVIDIA card and was stumped why my screen was blank. I’d give you gold if I could!

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    9·
    11 days ago

    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

  • Switorik@lemmy.zip
    5·
    9 days ago

    It used to be this way and was one of my biggest complaints. It’s no longer this way. Drivers for my Nvidia card works fine on my mint and arch setup.

  • yelling_at_cloud@programming.dev
    3·
    10 days ago

    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.

        • CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          9 days ago

          The issues were random black outs when the system was idle. The system just shut off display output and you had to force shutdown. Only logs that were there pointed to a popular Bazzite sleep issue. Didn’t look like it was worth it trying to patch it (fresh install) so I just swapped over to CachyOS.

      • pinballwizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        9 days ago

        the nvidia desktop version of bazzite didnt work with vulkan for me. it was still attempting to use mesa drivers for it. this was after debian where what i was trying to do required bleeding edge drivers which obviously wasnt going to work. then i just said fuck it and went with ubuntu like i have my entire linux career. you can hate on me, but it honestly works good enough

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    the upsides of buying from a Company that donates to OSS projects rather then not donating and only maintains proprietary drivers.
    IK broadcom also does this too,but broadcom do have drivers in Mesa only for the Raspberry PI.

  • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    The NVIDIA driver is alright now, but in my experience had un-debuggable segfaults in the opengl part, so I had to abandon it. Sad.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

    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.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 days ago

      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.

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
      0·
      11 days ago

      For me cuda was painful. I did the well documented commands, rebooted and had no output on my laptop screen anymore. Probably a complication due to Optimus, but still…

      • herrvogel@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 days ago

        It was definitely Optimus. If you’ve got an Optimus laptop, everything bad in your life can somehow be traced back to it. Bad battery life? Optimus. Buggy video? Optimus. Hurts when you pee? Optimus. God I fucking hate Optimus.

    • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      11 days ago

      3 years ago this was true. Not sure if nvidia works properly with wayland even now, though at least the trend is different now

      • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        11 days ago

        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)

        • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          I mean yeah, but that’s a little like saying “computers all have WiFi capabilities these days, as long as you only buy motherboards with built in WiFi.” It’s a pretty large limitation to place on the user’s choice. Especially when Linux users like to meme about certain distros being better or worse.

          • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            11 days ago

            Well, no, not at all. Nvida works on wayland on any distro, but it just works on some distros.

            It just works means no user config required.

          • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            11 days ago

            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.

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          11 days ago

          Are there distros where you can’t do that? I mean, maybe Debian?

          I have had only a few issues with nVidia on Linux for a few years. But, I am using an old card. I’d like to live in the nice sunny castle, not the scary one with bad weather. But, at least I have mostly working shelter while I play my games.

          • AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            Debian has proprietary software via opt-in through the non-free repository. However the Nvidia driver is horribly outdated so I had to install them directly. But now it works decently well. But my 1070TI is on borrowed time now no matter the OS 🥲

            • merc@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              10 days ago

              Yeah, I have the same issue with my 1080. I haven’t installed Debian in decades because everything in “stable” is so incredibly outdated. It’s supposed to lead to a stable system, and in some ways it does. But, in other ways because everything is so out of date, people often have to install from source or find alternate packages, so it becomes possibly even more unstable.

              • AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                1·
                10 days ago

                I think with flatpak it’s fine nowadays. So I have the stable base Debian, but most applications are flatpak and for dev work I use containers or nix anyways.

                • merc@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  10 days ago

                  Yeah, these days you don’t need the base OS much anymore. That’s why I like the Atomic distros. I’m running Bazzite and it’s great. Someone else handles the upgrades of the base image, and I just run flatpaks or containers.

      • Übercomplicated@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 days ago

        This is the main reason I switched. I got about 30% less performance on a 3060 Ti in Linux than on Windows. And then Counter Strike 2 came out and I was fucked. Now I get about 30% more performance on Linux than on Windows with my 7900 XT (got it on super sale, so worth it). That is ultimately why I switched. And I can use sway and hyprland now, instead of i3. For me, the switch to AMD brought huge improvements.

  • TheMightyCat@ani.social
    1·
    11 days ago

    I’m running wayland with nvidia-open and nvidia-utils packages, and have never encountered any driver issues in both graphics and compute.

  • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
    1·
    11 days ago

    Never had an issue with my Nvidia card. OBS can use the hardware encoder out of the box. Just a few weeks ago upgraded to a AMD card and had to set some “advanced” settings in OBS to do the same. Really happy overall, but after seeing this meme for years I expected rainbows and sunshine but was unpleasantly surprised in that regard.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      my nvidia card caused sleeping and hibernation to randomly and regularly fail, and it made me very vary of system updates breaking random things.