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Nvidia overtakes Apple as the second most valuable company. (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Why does everyone always complain about Nvidia support on Linux? I've been using Nvidia GPUs on Ubuntu and Debian for years and it has never required any more effort than 'sudo apt install nvidia-driver'.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because they're notoriously fickle and bug/breakage-prone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, I don't find Linux folks very fickle. Seems like they have the opposite problem more often than not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'm referring to Nvidia's dogshit Linux drivers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s not difficult to install the drivers. I recently had to swap out my 3090 for an AMD card because Wayland just crashes and works poorly with Nvidia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You should probably rephrase that to say Nvidia crashes and works poorly with Wayland.

Saying Wayland works badly with Nvidia is a bit like saying Linux doesn't support Photoshop, rather than the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tomato tomato

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not really, the wording completely changes who is at fault.

When you say Wayland doesn't work for Nvidia, it's blaming Wayland, but Linux/Wayland isn't at fault here, Nvidia is for providing drivers that aren't fit for purpose.

If Nvidia drivers broke on Windows, nobody would say "Windows is broken for Nvidia", they'd say the opposite, but with Linux we act like the problem is Wayland, for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I guess if you had a positive experience that must mean everyone else is lying?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

In my experience newer kernels and Wayland + nvidia is a huge mess.

I switched to AMD and have had 0 downtime, all the cool features nvidia touts, and fully working Wayland with no effort at all.