Am I the only one who has no problems with Nvidia drivers?
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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There's a lot of PTSD from linux users in the before-time.
Don't get me started on trying to compile 3Com network drivers.
The funny thing is that for a long time nvidia was the GPU brand to get on Linux because ATI (now AMD) drivers were just as closed but sucked ass.
I remember specifically buying an Nvidia GPU in 2009 because their proprietary driver was awesome and could do multi monitors properly using their proprietary X11 extension called TwinView
Imo back in the days amd wasn't any better
It was actually worse until they open sourced their drivers.
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It depends on both the hardware and distro. I got a laptop RTX 3070 and depending on the distro I got different problems.
On Linux mint, running some games in full screen will freeze the main screen
On fedora KDE/Nobara, you can have an incompatible kernel version getting installed as an update, borking the system.
On nix os KDE, blender doesn't want to render anything after waking from sleep (may be a blender issue.)
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Yes. Don't brag.
In all seriousness I haven't used nvidia for ~ 6 years. Back then my issues on nvidia were periodic updates breaking, or with multi monitors. On amd ive never had a driver update break...ive also switched to a single very large 4k so that may also help.
Lot's of circlejerking online. I have no doubt that some people have issues while having an nvidia card, and I also have no doubt that in some cases the driver might be to blame.
But unless you fiddle things, go out of your way to "optimize things" by following some random posts or something like that, most common distros handles nvidia drivers properly. The same usual disclaimers applies though; being "bleeding edge" means you'll cut yourself, and all that.
For people that just install a system (and I mean something well known to work, not "the latest craze you absolutely have to replace everything with", it's fine. They (nvidia) even ironed out most of wayland issues for a while now. There are still some minor lingering issues, but nothing most average users will notice.
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Upgraded to an AMD card and suddenly Linux became perfectly reliable.
I had a 3060 and it wasn't that Linux wasn't reliable but it occasionally would receive an update that would require a video card driver update as well. I bought a 9070xt, sold the 3060, and haven't had a single issue since.
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ugh even worse if you have a hybrid laptop. integrated amd and discrete nvidia.
Kids, learn from me, do NOT buy an ASUS ROG Strix. less than 5 years old and thing is already on its deathbed with constant reboots and hanging at POST.
I'll do you one better: do not buy ANYTHING made by Asus. That stuff's built to fail as fast as possible.
So far i've always had good luck with their motherboards, granted those are the only things from asus that i've bought, and my current motherboard is from 2019 i think.
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My Nvidia driver has worked flawlessly in Fedora for the past 3 years. Not a single issue.
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I have a 3090 that I will replace with an AMD card the second it makes financial sense for me.
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If you don't have a video card, you don't have (video) driver issues.
Serial terminal gang represent!
Y'all I would happily take all yalls nvidia GPUs.
(Slackware has made using nvidia drivers easy for so long now I'm surprised the other distros haven't fucking figured it out.)
Every distro makes this easy. Every single one. Some have to enable a separate repo for all proprietary shit which is the limit of the challenge.
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I'm having no trouble on mine on CachyOS thankfully. Playin my games just fine. I'm sad I didn't kick Microslop sooner, it's been great honestly with all the tinkering and control I have. Not only did I get a performance lift, but my PC actually feels...like it's mine I guess?
I managed to get hibernate working on opensuse with an Nvidia card, so I guess I'm lucky as hell.
No you fucking didnβt.
I had to remember that I'm trans and furry and channel that energy during drive partitioning.
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I haven't had issues in ages, with Fedora at least. My laptop has NVIDIA and my desktop has AMD. Both are pretty stable.
Regular desktop stuff and gaming usually works fine. Problems start cropping up when you try to use some more advanced GPU-powered apps, or do development yourself. I've encountered even older OpenGL apps that fail to start unless you force them to use the Mesa software renderer.
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My solution was to pick a distro that came with Nvidia drivers set up already (pop os) and have had zero problems with it.
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No issues on Mint though
Arch just seems to work. Though I am also not seeing a single distro in this thread listed as having issues.
Maybe itβs because mine is old, but my NVIDIA card never interfered with running Mint.
Maybe Microslop is secretly paying Nvidia to be shit specifically on Linux?
Doesn't even have to pay. With the way Microsoft pushes AI, Nvidia gets their share automatically.
Use Bazzite or one of its sister distros.
This is the only reason I use a "gaming* distro. They took the single biggest pain in the ass, and made sure it works out of the box. Yes, there are other challenges (immutable distros have a learning curve) but overall I'm very happy with Bazzite.
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I'm on endeavouros (arch) with an rtx 3060 and haven't had any issues whatsoever in a few years, are people having more nvidia problems lately or something?
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Things currently stopping "YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP"
- Anti cheat
- Adobe
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Nvidia
- No availability of Linux PCs in physical stores
These but to a lesser degree
- AutoCAD
- Obscure research/academic/industrial software
- Music production software
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To be fair the windows driver situation isn't much better. last time I started windows on a computer I cared about, it tried to find a new driver for my mouse for some reason and in the process deleted all the profiles I had configured on the mouse
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Dunno, every single major problem I had in the last couple of years (including few month on windows) were caused by bad AMD drivers. Had to switch to wayland in large part to avoid that goddamn hw_done/flip_done timeout bug. And still, if anything tries to use VA-API it freezes the entire desktop with amdgpu_cs_ioctl reports "not enough memory for command submission". And it also recently started to not recognize the monitor plugged into it after booting, saying kernel: workqueue: dm_irq_work_func [amdgpu] hogged CPU for >10000us 4 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND, so I have to re-plug it a few times for it to start working.
Nvidia, on the other hand? Not a single hitch so far.
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Still is. I had to reinstall linux the other day because Nvidia fucked everything up. It wasn't the first time.
I use btrfs with snapshots now.
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