r/linuxmemes • u/Suitable_Stick2554 • 2d ago
LINUX MEME Nvidia vs AMD drivers in a nutshell
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u/avocadorancher 2d ago
I dual boot for some games and recently realized I have been playing on Linux with the integrated graphics card for two years. Disabled secure boot and watched the performance jump like crazy.
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u/Computer-dude123 2d ago
Been there. I was wondering for a while why cs2 ran at 40fps on linux, when on windows i could get around 120 easily
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u/EvaNoBrain 1d ago
I had secure boot disabled while dual booting but after 6 months of using Linux I decided I wanted to play some Valo which required me to turn secure boot on. I didn't turn it off untill I realized that when I was playing smash ryujinx wouldn't see my graphics card. And I haven't touched valo since then.
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u/M2k1e0L 2d ago
let me guess, cachyos?
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u/Khai_1705 2d ago
You're not booting into cachyos with secure boot on
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u/FARSUPERSLIME 2d ago
You can easily setup secure boot. It's not on by default but it is an option. https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/secure_boot_setup/
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u/M2k1e0L 2d ago
How should they know, they don't care much about their diy distro for whatever reason. They refuse to learn basic knowledge within a few hours during a manual arch install and happily flood all arch subreddits with basic problems. Doesn't make any sense but it is like it is.
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u/Khai_1705 2d ago
except for one small issue, if you followed that exact wiki, the nvidia-open kernel module will have zero issue loading up
the only way for it to fail is when you never turn off secure boot since install in which case cachyos will get ruled out immediately.
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u/Griffinx3 2d ago
Hi, diy guy here who has installed arch and refuses to ask for help ever on the internet. I use Cachyos because it's an easy starting point that has 90% of what I want and I do the final 10% myself. It's a lot easier than making a bunch of scripts to get there (I use Ansible for servers and debated about Nix).
If you asked me a couple years ago if Linux could do secure boot and tpm I'd say no, that's a windows thing right? Now I have both working with encrypted drives using that same wiki page and some reddit threads and I did it on Debian too. You're assuming a lot about people based on a short comment on a meme sub.
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u/M2k1e0L 2d ago
as you anaylized right, this is a memesub. why do you except help here, i'm here for fun. if vanilla cachy os has 90% of what you need, why you pick a arch based distro over a fedora one like nobara lol. would be much less headache over time if you are not interested in the possibilites of arch. screams of free ai webchat answer all together.
secure boot/tpm are a thing in linux for 10+ years. it's nice to hear you can follow clear instructions tough. what do you want to hear from me now? good boy? cool? jackpot?
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u/Griffinx3 1d ago
I was hoping you'd consider people can be ignorant without being malicious, but it seems you just want to be an asshole.
Nobara explicitly says it doesn't support secureboot (still technically possible), I like pacman more than dnf, and I like the Arch wiki. It looks like a decent distro but I tried Fedora in the past and it wasn't my thing. If everything works perfectly I start getting headache withdrawals and look for things to fix that aren't broken yet.
Enjoy your distro wars (•_•)7
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u/assidiou 1d ago
I had something similar with the xow driver back in 2020 where a bug in libusb caused it to use 100% of two CPU cores. Well my non-hyperthreaded quad core was quite happy when I removed that package and used a wired xbox controller.
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u/assidiou 2d ago edited 2d ago
Lol, NVIDIA drivers are shit on Windows too. Richest company in the world makes the shittiest software imaginable.
I've worked with plenty of NVIDIA hardware using CUDA and tensor for segmentation and it's like everything is some one-off science experiment.
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u/Faku77721 2d ago
It's really surprising how bad they have gotten in the last years. I can't remember a driver update that didn't introduce bugs and performance problems anymore. And I have a few friends that keep asking me nervously if they should even update or wait for the next one.
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u/RKGamesReddit 2d ago
I help users troubleshoot a game in a discord server I moderate, and every driver of the 6xx series from nvidia presents us a problem in some capacity... We don't know if/when nvidia will resolve the issue.
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u/EnjoyJor 1d ago
funny enough that 6xx drivers no longer cause my pc to freeze when 5xx drivers will randomly cause hard freeze. I think it's something to do with nvidia drivers having issues with suspend. but damn their driver is buggy as hell, on Linux at least.
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u/RKGamesReddit 1d ago
The 6xx issue seems to be specific to windows, as I haven't seen any reports (though they may exist) for Linux. I'm on AMD and Linux so I can't test the issues myself
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u/Horror_Cauliflower88 2d ago
Nvidea App errors out for me on every driver update, and shuts down the laptop. It says installed when I open it on restart.
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u/Vova_Tonk fresh breath mint 🍬 2d ago
And now it's also Intel Arc in the same category as AMD, it's been a blast for me on Linux
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u/YuvrajXG 2d ago
Yess arc ftw.
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u/Round_Thanks_2780 2d ago
Is Arc good these days?
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u/Escalope-Nixiews 2d ago
The best i'd say (for price) especially if you need transcoding since, somehow, they got equal or better encoders/decoders than NVidia. Plus their GPUs run heavy games
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u/Mean-Atmosphere-3122 2d ago
For the most part they're pretty good. However, the upscaling for intel arc cards don't use the XMX cores (implementation not yet made for it) so XESS won't be as performant as it is on Windows. At least that was one of the main issues I recall regarding arc cards on linux presently.
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u/ComradeVaughn 2d ago
Never had AMD issues with drivers. Is the meme maker stuck in 2004 or something?
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u/Einn1Tveir2 2d ago
I bought my first AMD card in fifteen years this summer (RX 9070) and I use Windows for one thing: Play Battlefield. However, Windows thinks not. Because it constantly overwrites the newest AMD gpu driver with a generic one, making games not wanting to start because they don't detect a GPU. Tried numerous way to block automatic driver install by Windows, but none worked. Ended up installing a year old driver that Windows finally accepted. So yeah, not so much as a driver problem as its Windows problems.
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u/Internal-Bed8020 2d ago
you have to turn off automatic driver updates in windows. it drove me crazy for a month until i finally figured it out
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u/Einn1Tveir2 2d ago
I know, it didn't work. I tried numerous way to disable it but somehow Windows simply ignored it. I also found out that because I have the home version, and not the pro version. Windows will simply ignore some of those options. Fun stuff.
Thankfully I run Linux 99,5%.
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u/Laziness100 2d ago
Even if you disable it, you have to purge existing drivers for the GPU just to force Windows to use the driver you want it to use and have a stable experience.
The fact that Microsoft took at least 5 years to admit there even was a problem with forcing drivers from Windows Update even if the current drivers were newer just shows how little they care about UX or Windows in general. I had these issues with RX570 in 2019 and no issues since 2021 when I figured that out.
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u/Einn1Tveir2 1d ago
Did exactly that using the official AMD purge tool in safe mode. Didn't do any difference.
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u/fallen_one_fs 2d ago
My RX 7600 bought in december last year saw every single driver problem you can think of under Windows.
Linux? Not a single one.
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u/__DPress__ 2d ago edited 2d ago
I have an extreme trouble with their Polaris architecture now. I know, the thing is outdated. But here's the numbers... 1,400,000 elements visibility check with compute shader (Hi-Z Occlusion Culling):
AMD Radeon R7 260X (Windows/Linux): 1-1.5 milliseconds
Intel UHD 630: 5-6 milliseconds
AMD Radeon RX580 (Windows): 4-5 milliseconds
I didn't check RX580 on Linux yet for the concrete numbers, but last time I checked it was much faster just because of better drivers, a scene that was 90 fps on Windows was 340 fps on Linux just because that compute shader bottleneck wasn't present.
It's 2026 and I hit moments like that
Edit: Typo
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u/Capybara2112 2d ago
well i can say the same about nvidia on linux too, never had any issues. the post is probably more into the performance, where nvidia is obviously worse on linux while amd sucks on windows
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u/marssel56 2d ago
Every year on Windows 10 i have the official driver start having video TDR'S followed by windows disabling the driver sometimes instaling it's own far more stable and if it doesn't do that i have to manualg unistall the driver with ddui and install it again. And not the IGPU is working good. No artifacting or crashes.
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u/OSS-Corpo-Shit 2d ago
My last AMD card was 3 years ago and the drivers were still shit.
I keep giving them chances and keep getting burned for it.
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u/dylang01 2d ago
My AMD drivers keep crashing in windows. Almost a daily occurrence now.
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u/ComradeVaughn 2d ago
Sounds like a power supply issue. I have had this 6700xt for a good 5 years or so with zero issues in windows.
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u/Tommynwn 1d ago
On mine also, its not a hardware thing, if the pc shuts off from a power cut (generally while suspended) the AMD driver thinks it crashed and loads defaults setting when i boot it up, then i have to configure all again
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u/Woodpecker-Visible 2d ago
Idk, nvidia works absolutly fine for me on cachy. Havent have to think about it even once.
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u/Proman4713 2d ago
Yeah but it's way more intentional on Windows. You get various utilities as well as an animation that plays when a game starts, as well as the Nvidia App, of course. On Linux, it seems that they're just doing the bare minimum to have the hardware be utilised properly
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u/Woodpecker-Visible 2d ago
Animation i dont care of. Arent there third party tools if you needed the rest? Not much of a problem if that exist.
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u/Proman4713 2d ago
I guess you can probably get third party tools for the rest if you look for them, but the difference in the level of intent is what I'm trying to describe here
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u/letmehaveanameyoudum 2d ago
Intel drivers on both:
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u/Tanawat_Jukmonkol New York Nix⚾s 2d ago
Unless you have a laptop, and their iGPU power regulation is broken (extreme stutter on low battery).
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace 2d ago
Am I like one of the few people on Linux who has never had problems with NVIDIA drivers?
Between multiple distros, multiple computers and NVIDIA cards I haven't had a single issue. Hell, I even got CUDA set up on both systems.
If anything my Windows experiences have been worse, funnily enough.
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u/Yoshiida 2d ago
I've had tremendous amount of issues on Wayland with Nvidia 2-3 years ago
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace 2d ago
It definitely has gotten better overtime! I've been using Wayland with NVIDIA for years now with little to no issues, personally. How are things for you now?
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace 2d ago
Truth be told I've never used HDR on any of my systems, even on Windows, so I don't know anything about that unfortunately.
I have compared performance to Windows and I personally haven't seen much difference myself. There would be times where there are significant performance differences, but those were more due to Proton and whatnot, after a game updates for example and I have to wait for a new proton update to fix it.
For example, when Death Stranding 2 came out on PC it was borderline unplayable at first, graphical glitches and constant crashes and all. But then in the span of like a week or two, both game and proton updates improved the performance significantly to be either onpar with Windows or sometimes even surpass it.
Other than that, I haven't touched overclocking and whatnot either, and yeah I can imagine that could be troublesome on Linux. All I know about that stuff was playing with MSI Afterburner on my even older 750 Ti on Windows 10, lol.
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace 2d ago
Yeaahh I get that. If anything, being closed source is enough of a problem by itself technically.
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u/Emotional_You_5269 17h ago
I undervolted my 5080 with PenguinBurner pretty easily. VRR causes brightness flickering for me, so I don't use it (PG32UCDM). Haven't really used HDR, but from the little I tried, I didn't see an issue with it. Performance is worse on Linux no matter what GPU you use. But I also don't really notice that when my 5 most recent games are 2D or over 10 years old.
I'm not saying it's without problems. It likely is. I just don't notice them with day to day use.
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u/Intelligent_Ant_608 2d ago
Probably you have an old card or still using X or both, try wayland + 40x or 50x series card on new kernel then we talk
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u/mao_dze_dun 2d ago
Can't say I've had any problems with my 5070 on Fedora Workstation. Now, in all fairness, I do my gaming exclusively in Windows, sans some lightweight stuff, if I am too lazy to restart. But as far as day to day stuff does, Fedora and Gnome have been absolutely trouble free.
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u/Intelligent_Ant_608 2d ago
in my ubuntu 26, wayland and 5070, sleep causes kernel panic and is a known staled issue in their github for more than 3 monthes now, i had to write manual patches for it and exclude it from updates because its somehow also related to bios and its actually a 3 fold issue, im a low level developer myself it was not that hard for me, specially now that ai exists, but still for average user its an issue
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u/mao_dze_dun 2d ago
Ok, I think I might have dodged this one - I don't use sleep mode on my desktop. Sounds like a real PITA. Is that a kernel issue or is it specific to the Nvidia drivers?
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u/Intelligent_Ant_608 1d ago
its combination of uvm not flushing its state which on its own gets solved with one line flush + bios repost corrupting the uvm memory on s3 resume on top of these two then acpi dsm strikes with corrupting D-states sequence, dead with blue led _acpiDsmCallbackInit: SBIOS suggested GPS_2X supports function 517, but the call failed!
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace 2d ago
That sucks to hear :(
Hopefully that stuff gets merged / implemented soon, less issues people face the better.
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u/orthadoxtesla Ask me how to exit vim 2d ago
I haven’t had issues with my 5090 on hyprland. So I dunno
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace 2d ago
My laptop had a GTX 1650, and my current PC has an RTX 5060. Both have been on Wayland!
No idea what kernel I'm running on and I'm currently not home, but I can say that it's a fairly up-to-date installation of CachyOS. The laptop was on Nobara.
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u/Aeydark 1d ago
I use a 5080 paired with a 5900x and game just fine.
Both sides have their pros and cons. Before this, I gamed on a 7900xt and it had it’s ups and downs though, overall good.
The only reason for switching is that it randomly just stopped working. Also at the time HDMI for high refresh rate was a no-go. As much as I’m a DisplayPort fan, if I’m spending north of 500 plus for a card, I want my ports to work. Of course I didn’t know about the HDMI drama until my DisplayPort cable went out and I switched to get me by.
Also I got the 5080 for open box return for $999 when the cards were going for like 1100/1200 bucks?
I think I made out.
There’s in my opinion a certain percentage of luck when it comes down to drivers for both l Linux and Windows.
YMMV.
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u/Emotional_You_5269 17h ago
I'm using a 5080 on Wayland right now... :P
Can't say I have noticed any major issues. Although it's not like I compare performance on Windows and Linux either, so even if it may be bad compared to Windows, I wouldn't know.
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u/2moon4moon 16h ago
Thank you Zorin OS for letting me use a 4090 with Wayland out of the box, while I had to tinker around for 0(!) seconds.
I just love them ♥.
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u/Afflictionista 1d ago
I am on Arch + GNOME + Wayland with Nvidia for 8 or 9 years now and never had any problems.
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u/Here_f0r_p0rn_ 2d ago
I had some issues setting up VRAM write to swap on hibernation but once it was done it was really smooth
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace 2d ago
Back when I was using my previous device, an NVIDIA Laptop with a GTX 1650, I was quite worried bout switching to Linux due to all the horror stories I've heard about hibernation and sleep on NVIDIA devices. Especially when Wayland and an extra iGPU is thrown into the mix.
But weirdly enough, I had no issues with that either, and I tend to put my computers to sleep rather than shutting em down for the most part. Still no issues, even on my newer custom built desktop with an RTX 5060 in it.
It really feels like I've dodged multiple bullets somehow. If anything, the only major issues I've had on Linux were due to Nobara crapping itself once every two updates back when I still used that distro, which had nothing to do with my GPU or its drivers.
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u/-Feeblington- 1d ago
Dont fret. I have an nvidea pc running linux with zero issue.....and an amd laptop that causes nothing but issues (even in install i get to chroot in to fix it...what joy)
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u/AbbreviationsWide331 Linuxmeant to work better 1d ago
I'm on Linux for 2 years now and I have a GTX 1060. I remember being afraid to switch to Linux cause I thought I'd have a lot of problems. But... No. If anything games run better cause there is not so much windows bloat 🤷♂️
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u/Immediate-Ad3360 2d ago
Had a problem in spring with wayland + NVIDIA + kde. The mouse was "miss placed" a couple pixels to top left.
To Tipp on something I had to use the bottom right corner of the mouse, not the tip.
Couldn't figure out why, but it dissapeared after a couple of days. 🤷
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace 2d ago
That's such a weird problem to have
...how apparent / visible was it? I've been using GNOME regardless of the distros I've swapped through, so I'm not sure if I just haven't noticed or if that was a problem when KDE is thrown into the mix with the others.
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u/Immediate-Ad3360 1d ago
Was wondering why everytime the directory or file below was opened, than after mark something I realised it was the line below.
Did a test with gimp where the dot was painted.
Didn't found somewhere else a bug like mine but it wasn't annoying enough to go on searching and fixing it 🙃
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u/DeXudra 2d ago
Maybe you got a newer Nvidia gpu because I was struggling on some distros to get the drivers for my 960 now I’m on AMD
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace 2d ago
Yeahhh older NVIDIA GPUs do cause problems I can agree with that.
I have a bit of a gap when it comes to NVIDIA stuff on Linux, it's either the GTX 1650 & RTX 5060, or something as ancient as a GeForce 9400M or stuff akin to it on older laptops. The latter part are absolutely abysmal compared to the kind of performance they give out on Windows 10 for example, even with ancient drivers. I found that even Nouveau didn't help these devices that much.
And that's ignoring the kernel problems I had trying to get ancient NVIDIA drivers to work on Linux, lol.
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u/Efficient_Care8279 2d ago
Depends on distro gpu generation and games but most of times u get 20% fps at least on nvidia linux
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u/GrymsouI 1d ago
Definitly not, all my Nvidia devices are on Debian 13.
Its like when old people hate something, and then society actually turns around and accepts it. People stuck in their old ways.
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u/GloriousKev Ubuntnoob 20h ago
Whats funny is I think I am one of the people who when on Windows never had issues with AMD drivers either. Nvidia's drivers have been pretty bad for 2 generations. AMD's have been solid for nearly a decade but people still say these things.
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u/Anaeijon 2d ago
I've been using Linux for over 15 years and I worked in AI for about 7.I've had to use Nvidia on Linux for a while now and had quite some trouble. It got so much more usable for everyday stuff and gaming over the last 2 years.
The main problem still is: Nvidia doesn't provide open source drivers. Open source support for Nvidia is pretty bad.
If you use Nvidias non-free drivers, it's mostly okay these days.
Previously the non-free driver had issues like: some software suddenly becomes incompatible to your specific driver version and suddenly you have to downgrade your non-free Nvidia driver, but because the previous version comes precompiled for a specific kernel version, it doesn't work on your kernel version, so you also have to downgrade that too...
Also, the big problem with Nvidia's driver not being open-source is, that most distros can't bundle them properly and use weird workarounds. So, again, your experience heavily depends on your distro. I've had a good experience with EndeavourOS and CachyOS over the last 2 years. But I know, that some distros still struggle with Nvidia setups.
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u/Huskar 2d ago
it's a meme I know but I never had problems with my radeon 5700xt on Windows for 7 years
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u/TopdeckIsSkill 2d ago
I had the same card before upgrading to 9070xt. I never had any noticeable drive issue
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u/Suitable_Stick2554 2d ago
You are the chosen one then lol, you beat the silicon lottery 😂
Mine was black screening every driver update on Windows. That's why I archive these on GitHub - this meme is literally my PTSD.
Glad yours survived 7 years tho! If you wanna fuel the archive: ko-fi.com/lukasricecoffe ☕
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u/Erchevara M'Fedora 2d ago
As someone with a GTX 1070, they kinda converged a while ago.
- Linux - degraded performance
- Windows - screen flashing for 5 minutes when a single pixel of DRM content touches the second monitor. Basically unusable after Spotify introduced DRM video inconsistently in their app
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u/AdAdministrative3196 2d ago
Nvidia works perfectly fine on linux for me. Always has. I guess I'm just lucky🤷🏻♂️.
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u/Round_Thanks_2780 2d ago
What distro do you use?
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u/Morpheous010 2d ago
My rtx 5060 8gb vram works fine by default on RedstarOS ,i absolutely recommend you to tey it too.
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u/HumansAreIkarran 2d ago
Only had issues on rolling release distros myself, since sometimes the kernel version is sometimes not yet compatible with the newest drivers
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u/BlimbusTheSeventh 2d ago
Nvidia's drivers on windows suck, it took like 7 months for the screen blacking out and videos turning green on the RTX 50 series to get fixed.
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u/Prudent_Committee296 2d ago
AMD drivers have been decent on windows since RDNA 2, NVIDIA drivers on windows have become dogshit since Blackwell. Working with OpenGL, surprisingly, nothing matches Intel when it comes to conformance and actually meaningful error messages, but conformance doesn't matter when people have been developing on non-conformant Nvidia drivers with broken invariants everywhere for decades.
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u/Round_Thanks_2780 2d ago
Intel is probably conformant because they need offer as strong a product as possible in order to sell.
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u/EconomistClassic435 2d ago
I swapped from Mint to Zorin and everything started going haywire with drivers and all of the glitches, I still recommend Zorin but it’s something to keep in mind.
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u/omegaistwopif 2d ago
It’s systemD/Linux!
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u/Tanawat_Jukmonkol New York Nix⚾s 2d ago
Nah, drivers are kernel modules. They do not have specific user space program requirements (unless you're Nvidia, and you require whacky tools like nvidia-smi)
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u/Less-Efficiency-6624 2d ago
Nvidia drivers do not require systemd AFAIK, but they do require glibc
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u/Tanawat_Jukmonkol New York Nix⚾s 1d ago
No. The kernel driver doesn't require glibc. glibc is for user space library. In fact, they only use Linux kernel's specific C library. For example, the Linux kernel doesn't allow the use of malloc, and only allow the use of kmalloc provided by <linux/slab.h>
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u/Less-Efficiency-6624 1d ago
https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/615.71.09/README/minimumrequirements.html
Remember that the driver is also the user space components.
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u/Tanawat_Jukmonkol New York Nix⚾s 1d ago
If you mean the nvidia driver ecosystem as a whole (libGLX, libCUDA, power daemons, etc.), then yes. It will require glibc (however it doesn't have to be glibc, it could eve be musl if the devs wanted to support it). However, the kernel driver itself (nvidia.ko) does not use glibc.
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u/Tanawat_Jukmonkol New York Nix⚾s 2d ago
If you're going to be pedantic about GNU/Linux, then you're wrong. In this case, core system utility doesn't matter (could be Linux/BusyBox), so it's just Linux plus anything in this case.
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u/SetazeR 2d ago
I don't know about now, but 1.5 years ago after fighting with drivers for half a year because Helldivers 2 were crashing on my 7900xtx I gave up and installed Win10 instead of endeavour os. Way less crashing (but still not zero). On the other hand I don't use latest driver because they broke something again and HD2 just wouldn't work normally. Idk who's fault is that, but I'm certainly not happy about while situation.
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u/neremarine 2d ago
During the GPU crisis, my 5700XT was acting up so I sold it to a miner and bought a 3060Ti instead. Nvidia drivers drove me so insane with how feature-less they were/are that I went out of my way to find a decently priced 6600XT to sidegrade to.
I've since switched to Linux full time so it worked out doubly.
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u/ISPY4ever 2d ago
I had an issue once with Nvidia. But that was entirely on me (Arch and wasn't paying attention when installing the wrong driver version.)
On my CachyOS, it runs hyper-stable since years.
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u/AsugaNoir 2d ago
I don't know I've been having issues with and drivers on CachyOs lately. Nothing system breaking but it has been making some games run bad
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u/Revolutionary_Leg622 1d ago
I've had a GTX 1650 and I only had problems on RHEL distros. Debian and arch based distros worked out of box with Nvidia atleast for me
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u/Intrepid-Second6936 1d ago
Technically, AMD'd be kind of awful on both fronts right? Open-source Mesa drivers are the GOATed ones on Linux, AMD's own proprietary releases on Linux are also far from ideal.
Still all for it though lol, main reason I went the 9070XT for my last GPU upgrade after being on Linux full-time for the last 2+ years.
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u/Clanceeinfinity 1d ago
amd and qualcomm mesa are so good, have no issues with em. But man my pc was shiiiiiiit on windows.
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u/dronostyka 1d ago
I'd say that Nvidia drivers on Linux have gotten a lot better in the past few years. I daily drive Nvidia in Linux, and I am pretty much happy about it
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u/GrymsouI 1d ago
I never understood this. Nvidia has better support with Linux than it ever has. Ive switched all my devices from to Linux down to my servers and gaming desktop. Ive been gaming on Linux with most tripple A titles for past year or so. All running Nvidia GPUs.
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u/STRATEGO-LV 16h ago
Idk, the most stable nVidia Windows driver for 30 series is still from december 2024, soooo I wouldn't say that they are any better than on Linux side and AMD drivers can be rock solid on windows side.
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u/_Lost-In-The-Weeds_ 8h ago
In the general computing subreddits I head complaints from Windows Users about AMD drivers. I love AMD on Linux, never an issue.
No experience with Nvidia since back when Nvidia had the good Linux drivers and ATI did not, a Gforce3 that died far too soon.
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u/FrostingWorried5395 45m ago
I have more problems with AMD drivers on linux than amd on windows but less than nvidia on windows
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u/NoiseGrindPowerDeath M'Fedora 2d ago
I thought Nvidia drivers were terrible on Windows as well nowadays
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u/Technical_Instance_2 Arch BTW 2d ago
yeah, I've been hearing about a lot of issues with Nvidia + windows recently. I can't think of any off the top of my head as I've been busy with Uni stuff but I remember hearing some stuff was going on. I've been on linux for a while now and I can't really think of the last time I actually had an issue caused by Nvidia drivers or my card
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u/NoiseGrindPowerDeath M'Fedora 2d ago
Most of the Nvidia issues I came across on Linux were due to the fact that the drivers aren't open source so it's hard for application developers to get their stuff working properly with Nvidia cards. No such issues with AMD and Mesa drivers, which is why I switched to a 9070 XT in my main PC
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u/ComradeVaughn 2d ago
Yeah, I swapped my 3060ti for my 6700xt and all the hassle immediately went away.
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u/alexceltare2 2d ago
Well, yes and no. Nouveau is open-source but limited in capabilities while Nvidia closed-source blobs are feature-complete.
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u/NoiseGrindPowerDeath M'Fedora 2d ago
I should have specified, I was using the Nvidia proprietary drivers
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u/Brcoding 2d ago
I am not too sure about that. Sure there are some issues apparently but they are still more performant than their Unix counterpart.
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u/NoiseGrindPowerDeath M'Fedora 2d ago
There have been some bad updates that were probably cause by a combination of Nvidia not caring about consumer products anymore and vibe coding
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u/metadududu 2d ago
Dont post lies just to make the meme make sense, AMD drivers are better than nvidia on Windows as well if you take into account practicity, and driver overhead specially, all of the time I had an AMD card I did not experience more stabilty issues than ngreedia whatsoever.
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u/RandomDude9943 2d ago
finally somebody who refers to gnu/linux as gnu/linux and not "linux"
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u/new_simsons 2d ago
What if I use busybox bruh
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u/RandomDude9943 2d ago
then its not gnu/linux and something else
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u/new_simsons 2d ago
It's still linux
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u/RandomDude9943 2d ago
yep its now busybox/musl/linux (i assume you dont use glibc if you use busybox)
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u/new_simsons 2d ago
While we're at it should we specify everything the system has installed? Might just throw in systemd since that's the init most distros use. Can't forget about xorg and wayland too
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u/RandomDude9943 2d ago
i dont use sysd and wayland is a protocol not a piece of software
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u/new_simsons 2d ago
Still applies for openrc and runit or whatever the alternatives are. For most people only saying Linux is enough because it's all linux
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u/RandomDude9943 2d ago
openrc is only responsible for initialization and service management. SysD has alot more shit with it
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u/new_simsons 2d ago
So by your logic should I say gnu/glibc/linux/systemd/wayland?
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u/cAtloVeR9998 2d ago
Only doesn’t always need to listen to what the FSF says. And some distros are moving away from GNU corelibs. Though the likes of glibc isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
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u/EndyForceX 2d ago
Do you look like this by any chance? https://youtu.be/lE4UXdJSJM4?is=bPirgjEBtUNvvEjZ
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u/MooseBoys 2d ago
lol; lmao even
amdgpu#927 has been an issue for almost a decade. It was the last straw that finally made me go headless and just use Mac for my desktop.
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u/Appropriate_Unit3474 2d ago
I mean the workaround is an HDMI adapter
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u/MooseBoys 2d ago
Many displays and GPUs only support their peak capabilities on one of the interfaces.
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u/Humble-Captain3418 2d ago
Amd drivers have traditionally taken up to a year to catch up to their new devices after launch.
Nvidia drivers work great (thanks AI) but they're not open source and are not particularly interested in collaborating with existing open source projects, such as Wayland.
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u/Suitable_Stick2554 2d ago
OC - I spend way too much time archiving cursed Linux memes on GitHub.
Broke CS student from Colombia keeping this archive alive between classes. If this made you laugh, a $3 coffee keeps the archive going: ko-fi.com/lukasricecoffe ☕
Everything is free on GitHub, ko-fi just keeps my laptop alive.
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u/Suitable_Stick2554 2d ago
OC - I spend way too much time archiving cursed Linux memes on GitHub.
I'm a student from Colombia keeping this archive alive between uni and no sleep. If this made you laugh, a $3 coffee keeps me making more: https://ko-fi.com/lukasricecoffe ☕
All my memes are free on GitHub, ko-fi is just to keep the lights on.
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