Not necessarily a pain to install, however I've had a lot of stupid issues - like not being able to open a TTY session., I can't run Sway, and Hyprland absolutely refuses to work with my 3 monitor setup.
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That's strange. What distro are you on? What drivers? Hyprland runs just fine on my machine (arch, nvidia-dkms, rtx a6000)
Arch, gtx980, nouveau.
Maybe I should check out dkms
Please do. The fact that you cannot open a tty is very concerning..
I agree. I'm a long-time Linux user and I've never seen this before. TTY works fine on bootup, but I'm guessing as soon as the Nvidia drivers kick in, that's when it shits the bed. I'll make some btrfs snapshots and try the dickums (lol) driver later today. Here's hoping!
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I'm constantly surprised at this point how anyone fails at it. Not to mention there are a number of distros that provide them out of the box now and somehow people still say they couldn't install it.
Barring any quirks; for Arch, RHEL, Rocky, Alma, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandrivia, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and Void it's as simple as installing nvidia-open. Most other distros its the same, but the package name varies from repository to repository.
its not difficult
On your next pc go with an amd gpu. Just saying.
Currently linux mint offers an easy way to install Nvidia drivers. Avoid compiling the drivers from source.
This is just outrageously poor advice.
lol? This is the best advice I can give people.. What is wrong with you?
I guess I just offer better advice, not sure what to tell you. There's no reason to prioritize a single GPU over another, especially so on Linux. Driver support has come leaps and bounds this year alone, and it's only May.
Users should and need to make the decision for themselves which GPU is best for them and you shouldn't try to scare them away from a particular GPU because you had a bad experience with it.
Look. I use both nvidia and amd video cards for 20 plus years.
The experience under Linux using amd in factually better than Nvidia. Mainly because AMD open source their drivers and are part of the kernel.
You can't deny this fact. The only down side of open source in this particular case is the stupid HDMI Forum people, who do not allow us to have the latest hdmi implementation for 4k 120hz in an open source driver. Which is part of the license, where consumers are paying for. So that is ridiculous from the hdmi forum.
Anyhow, the user is free to choose whatever video card they wish to use. Hack try even the latest Intel Gpus. But also with Intel the firmware update are horrible outdated and they do not maintain they sht
Look. I use both nvidia and amd video cards for 20 plus years.
And I've been using linux since 1992; so I'm going on 33 years with using both NVIDIA and AMD. I genuinely don't see the relevance here.
The experience under Linux using amd in factually better than Nvidia.
Again, his highly depends on the distro. With the vast majority of modern distros this is just a plain objectively incorrect statement. Using NVIDIA is as simple as installing a single package and restarting to load the drivers.
You can’t deny this fact.
I quite literally just did. Because it's not a fact. Five years ago? Sure. I'd give it to you. But not today. It's objectively incorrect.
The only down side of open source in this particular case is the stupid HDMI Forum people, who do not allow us to have the latest hdmi implementation for 4k 120hz in an open source driver.
Because it doesn't adhere to the open HDMI standard. If you want it so badly, integrate the changes yourself and offer the stub to the community.
Anyhow, the user is free to choose whatever video card they wish to use.
Which is why I posted in the very first place because you saying "don't buy NVIDIA, it doesn't work with linux!" is fucking stupid... End users are free to choose whatever video card they wish, especially without interference from someone operating with opinions deeply held in the past.
In my experience, dealing with repeated nvidia problems is not worth the hassle. Just replace it with a good AMD graphics card and sell that nvidia thing.
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It ranges from "automatic" to "infuriating".
If you have Secure Boot enabled, there are some hoops to jump through. Read the docs and follow the steps for DKMS.
Depending on your distro and your requirements, you might want to install the drivers manually from Nvidia rather than using older drivers from your distro.
If you need CUDA, god help you. Choose a distro that makes this easy and use containers to avoid dependency hell. Note that this is not any easier on Windows (at least not last I checked, which was a few years ago).
Do not follow this advice OP. Never install the drivers manually from Nvidia unless you're an expert and have a very specific reason to go this route.
With Mint, just use the driver manager app and you'll be good.