• MajorHavoc@programming.dev
    74·
    6 months ago

    “I know what no one wants to admit - that everybody is just one bad day away from copy/pasting a curl command that pipes a remote script into sudo.”

  • AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world
    363·
    6 months ago

    I installed Linux Mint three days ago. Nvidia drivers got installed automatically and I was able to load up steam and play right away. No idea what this meme is talking about

    • ture@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 months ago

      I remember it being like that already in 2014. The only thing especially annoying I remember was having to use optimus to manually switch between the “internal” Intel GPU and the dedicated Nvidia GPU to not run out of battery within an hour. But the whole set up thing was never an issue for me on Mint and Ubuntu even 10 years ago.

    • RadicalEagle@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 months ago

      I had a hard time getting drivers for an RTX 4070 setup on Fedora a couple months ago. Not that I’m everyone, but I’m relatively competent so I could see how it would be an experience many people have shared.

      • ChunkyPud@lemmy.world
        6·
        6 months ago

        I have that same card and just today tried installing the drivers for a fresh install of fedora atomic 40 (KDE). It went worse than I expected.

        (before I rant, note that I have a 21:9 monitor which maybe adds extra weirdness/uncommonness.)

        • installer was a black screen. No signal to monitor at all. Had to use “basic video mode” from GRUB.
        • after install, I updated the system. A reboot caused the resolution to drop extremely low with wrong aspect ratio and refresh rate. Almost unusable for navigating system menus. None of that could not be changed. It wasn’t an issue before the update.
        • you have to do a weird workaround to get rpm fusion repos on atomic. Fair enough and fedora docs got you covered. Doing this involves rebooting twice. That’s when I learned that every other reboot consistently would boot into a black screen. So 4-5 reboots later (and a few more to test my theory), I have the repo with nvidia drivers.
        • installed the driver only to realize that it will break the install if secure boot is enabled (atomic only issue, I think). System crashed and couldn’t be booted anymore. Results in a freeze that needs a hard reboot. Back to my old OS for now because I’m exhausted.

        I can’t believe GPU drivers can break secure boot in 2024. I’m sure there is a logical reason behind it, but I’m shocked that installing anything at all on top of an OS that already supports secure boot would break it. Maybe I’ll try Bazzite because I’m lazy and heard good things. At a glance it appears to be fedora atomic with nvidia drivers installed (amongst many other gaming related things I probably would install anyway eventually).

      • Doombot1@lemmy.one
        3·
        6 months ago

        I set up my 4070 TS (the brand new one) on Ubuntu 22.04 about two months ago and my god was it a pain in the ass. Took like two days to do and even after that it would still hit a screen freeze issue every thirty minutes that took another week to find a half-assed solution for…

        • allrian@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          I installed a new system wih a 4070 TI Super as well, but with openSuse. It installed the drivers right away during installations, no issues, gaming flawless and fluid (no HDR I’m steam tho). Interesting that the experiences are so different

        • allrian@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          I installed a new system wih a 4070 TI Super as well, but with openSuse. It installed the drivers right away during installations, no issues, gaming flawless and fluid (no HDR I’m steam tho). Interesting that the experiences are so different

          • Doombot1@lemmy.one
            11·
            6 months ago

            Huh, that’s certainly interesting! The hacky solution ended up having to do with power states which is kinda annoying - I have to set the GPU to use max power state because if it goes into the min state and then I walk away for 5-10 mins, it drops out of the PCIe slot and I need to reboot. SSH still works but you can’t reattach it w/o a reboot. I’m running a PCIe gen 5 mobo though and I heard about some potential problems with that, so maybe that was related. Could also be the fact that I ran a Quadro RTX 4000 on the same system/OS for a year or so and didn’t want to do a full reinstall, so it probably had somewhat to do with leftover drivers and crap

        • allrian@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          I installed a new system wih a 4070 TI Super as well, but with openSuse. It installed the drivers right away during installations, no issues, gaming flawless and fluid (no HDR I’m steam tho). Interesting that the experiences are so different

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
    27·
    6 months ago

    “Do you want to know where I got these scars?! I found a handy guide to installing the Wi-Fi drivers I needed, but I couldn’t use it could I? Because it required that I already be online…”

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
      9·
      6 months ago

      I always use my usb to phone cable in these situations. Basically any distro has a driver ready to see the phone‘s hotspot network. Saved me a lot of times, lol

      • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        6 months ago

        I do the same. In case someone wants to know how it works with an Android phone, you connect your phone to your PC over USB and then you get a notification on your phone that says something like “Charging over USB”. If you tap on that, you can change the connection mode and one of the modes is “USB tethering”. If you select that, your PC will have an internet connection over the USB connection to your phone. It’s kinda like hotspot over USB.

    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
      4·
      6 months ago

      I had to buy an Ethernet dongle for my Lenovo laptop for just such an occasion, and that was an adventure to get working.

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        In my case, the Ethernet wasn’t working either.
        So I had to log into Windows, to try and find out the correct downloads. Failed that too.

    • fluckx@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 months ago

      WiFi drivers… Bluetooth in general… Printers…

      It could make a grown man cry I tell ya. CRY

    • FatCat@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      😂🤭 true. This used to happen to me in 2021 with 11th gen Intel laptop and Linux Mint…

  • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
    20·
    6 months ago

    I’m starting to think I’m some kind of Linux Genius because I’ve installed Nobara, clicked on “yes” when it asked me if I wanna install the driver and voilà. Never had an issue except steam flickering but I really don’t care.

  • XEAL@lemm.ee
    18·
    6 months ago

    The best part of using Nvidia drivers on Linux was when a newer package version dropped support for my card, because fuck me.

    Since then I became paranoid and started backing up all of my apt cache debs.

      • XEAL@lemm.ee
        1·
        6 months ago

        It was gone from the repo IIRC, I couldn’t downgrade from Synaptic.

        • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Nothing is ever gone. You can always install whatever bug-ridden version you want of anything.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
    10·
    6 months ago

    Joker as a road weary Linux early adopter is going to live rent free in my head for a long time. Thank you for that.

  • mortalic@lemmy.world
    111·
    6 months ago

    I just installed fedora 40. Was absolutely amazed when my three monitors just worked. Installed some games and realized I had forgotten to install the Nvidia drivers. Installed them… Laptop locked up wouldn’t boot. Unplugged the third monitor and it started working. Screw Nvidia. Not buying another system with their trash. Fix your driver’s you selfish POS

      • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
        1·
        6 months ago

        The last time, something hosed my whole install. I stopped using linux for a while after that. I’m stuck on a mac for work, much to my protestation, and I can’t justify replacing the graphics card on my personal PC at this moment, so I’m mostly just hanging out in Windows (mostly because I do video editing as well and I have issues with Davinci in Linux that may or may not be related to nvidia).