#Km91#Feb 16

Beware

https://sh.itjust.works/post/55425309

Show threadZen_ShinobiFeb 16
15 years ago this was true lol
Show threadRedjard
3 years ago this was true. Not sure if nvidia works properly with wayland even now, though at least the trend is different now
Feb 16 at 5:01pmWeb
Show threadPetter1Feb 16
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)
Show threadmic_check_one_twoFeb 16
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.
Show threadRedjardFeb 16

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.

Show threadPetter1Feb 16
Exactly!
Show threadPetter1Feb 16

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.

Show threadmercFeb 16

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.

Show threadPetter1Feb 16
I think there are some that only install FOSS during initial installation
Show threadmercFeb 16
Like which ones?
Show threadPetter1Feb 17
OpenSuse, I think
Show threadAudaciousArmadilloFeb 17
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 However the Nvidia driver is horribly outdated so I had to install them directly.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 🥲
Show threadmercFeb 17
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.
Show threadAudaciousArmadilloFeb 17
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.
Show threadmercFeb 17
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.
Show threadKristellFeb 16
From what I saw from my old room mate, it worked fine as of about 6 months ago. They got lower performance than on Windows, but still ran most games over 155fps (their monitor’s refresh rate) without any notable bugs. They had one of the cards that was like $2k new a year or two ago, idr the number, I think 4090?