Does anyone else feel like this is meme hasn't aged well? There was a point where it was true, but now I would say installing up to date drivers on Linux and maintaining them is easy than Windows...
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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The NVIDIA driver is alright now, but in my experience had un-debuggable segfaults in the opengl part, so I had to abandon it. Sad.
It used to be this way and was one of my biggest complaints. It's no longer this way. Drivers for my Nvidia card works fine on my mint and arch setup.
X.org or Wayland?
I used xorg on mint and wayland on arch. No issues related to drivers on either.
I experience some screen flickering and short blackouts.
the upsides of buying from a Company that donates to OSS projects rather then not donating and only maintains proprietary drivers.
IK broadcom also does this too,but broadcom do have drivers in Mesa only for the Raspberry PI.
I haven't had any issues with my nvidia GPU. I did some distro-hopping and didn't have any nvidia issues in any of the distros I tried.
If you want everything to work out of the box, I would recommend Bazzite. Pop! OS had me using the AMD image and fetching the nvidia driver manually (the nvidia image just didn't work for me). After that, everything worked brilliantly.
Bazzite just works unless you have a Gigabyte b550 motherboard. Guess what I have?
the nvidia desktop version of bazzite didnt work with vulkan for me. it was still attempting to use mesa drivers for it. this was after debian where what i was trying to do required bleeding edge drivers which obviously wasnt going to work. then i just said fuck it and went with ubuntu like i have my entire linux career. you can hate on me, but it honestly works good enough
Wow, opposite issues! Bazzite worked out of the box for me, but Ubuntu wasΒ awful.Β I spent several hours just to get my wired internet to work, threw every fix I could find at it, eventually fixed it with a modprobe, used it for a few days and decided that Ubuntu wasn't for me.
No hate, fam. Penguin brothers stick together
Thanks
Big ooof!
No way ? this is what I have. What are the issues ?
The issues were random black outs when the system was idle. The system just shut off display output and you had to force shutdown. Only logs that were there pointed to a popular Bazzite sleep issue. Didn't look like it was worth it trying to patch it (fresh install) so I just swapped over to CachyOS.
ok cheers good to know
This kinda reminded me of a scene in That 70s Show where Red Forman strongly recommended to his son that he should only fit accessories compatible with his 1969 Oldsmobile car.
I am on Debian with Nvidia 550 drivers... yeah.
Silly question but why?
Why what? Why Debian? Why Nvidia? Or White Nvidia 550 drivers?
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Why Debian: Because I am most familiar with Debian-based distros, and I don't generally need latest stuff for anything. I really wanted to familiarize myself with the base for other distros, and I am fine with it.
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Why Nvidia: Because I chose Nvidia when I built my computer (it was running Windows 10 at that moment) and I never upgraded it, and given that I don't have integrated graphics on my system I am stuck with it, unless I upgrade.
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Why Nvidia 550 drivers: Because these are the drviers that are in the latest Debian release (13 - trixie) and I don't want to break my system by installing experimental drivers or official ones from Nvidia. I also only have problems on Wayland Plasma session where HW accelerated apps and games have big graphical issues, but relogging to X11 session is fine for now. I don't really play video games, except retro and indie stuff anyway.
The reason I'm asking is that you can buy old AMD GPUs on eBay or equivalent sites for not a lot of money. Sure it involves spending but you will never need to deal with nvidia again
Iβve learned it best to use nvidia drivers with nvidia cards and the AMD drivers with the AMD cards. I recommend this for performance.
Thank you for posting this!! I canβt get an erection. I tried using an AMD driver the other day with my NVIDIA card and was stumped why my screen was blank. Iβd give you gold if I could!
Absolutely crazy take, I bet no one has thought of this.
I think it's more of a
Open drivers vs proprietary drivers
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