Yeah that is me 😢 it’s not a fun existence, bought my laptop when I still used windows and don’t have the money to get one without Nvidia GPU. It is working (right now), but I just got over having to nuke my install because trying to fix issues with it recently caused issues with other drivers for some reason.
When I bought my last laptop I specifically looked for alternatives to Nvidia. If you want a dGPU on a laptop, there’s almost nothing else than Nvidia.
There were like 4 laptops with AMD dGPU. All of them were priced about 2x what a comparable Nvidia laptop was priced and pretty much all of them have terrible ratings due to being made by Acer.
The only other option is Framework, and they want 3x what the Nvidia 4070 laptop cost that I ended up getting.
Can anyone share the state of modern Nvidia cards on linux nowadays? I was looking into building a more modern gaming/rendering rig and AMD GPUs are way more expensive than Nvidia here. Reddit provides contradictory information.
Ideally I’m interested in how well the 5000 series works on Wayland setups in normal distros like debian.
In general, mine work fine. Sometimes Linux won’t switch between my CPU and GPU for graphical rendering when I start a game. Seems to be sporadic and changes whenever I update Linux. In general, I just force the GPU to render all graphics as a workaround, but that wouldn’t do well for the battery on a laptop. I also think it’s something my distro doesn’t handle well, but others do better.
I am able to get mine running on Kubuntu. I have a Lenovo legion s7 slim laptop with a mobile 3060 GPU. I would not choose Nvidia if I could (can’t afford to replace my laptop), but it is possible in theory to get them working, just finicky. From my understanding it has become a lot better in recent history though. Nvidia says the latest drivers (I think the version is like 580) is compatible with pretty much all modern Nividia GPUs (so like 3xxx series and up).
Nope. Had my games constantly crash my PC after an update. Had to ddu the whole thing and go back to a known working driver from a month ago. Not updating that shit anymore unless strictly required
it is probably me only ever using igpus but the linux graphics stack never broke on me, always worked flawless.
nvidia users in the other hand, have the opposite experience
Linux update is more like… “uh oh, please don’t break anything, I just got my graphics drivers working last week.”
This take is based on a true story.
Says the NVidia user.
Meanwhile in windows: doo doo doo… continues to game…
Yeah that is me 😢 it’s not a fun existence, bought my laptop when I still used windows and don’t have the money to get one without Nvidia GPU. It is working (right now), but I just got over having to nuke my install because trying to fix issues with it recently caused issues with other drivers for some reason.
When I bought my last laptop I specifically looked for alternatives to Nvidia. If you want a dGPU on a laptop, there’s almost nothing else than Nvidia.
There were like 4 laptops with AMD dGPU. All of them were priced about 2x what a comparable Nvidia laptop was priced and pretty much all of them have terrible ratings due to being made by Acer.
The only other option is Framework, and they want 3x what the Nvidia 4070 laptop cost that I ended up getting.
Can anyone share the state of modern Nvidia cards on linux nowadays? I was looking into building a more modern gaming/rendering rig and AMD GPUs are way more expensive than Nvidia here. Reddit provides contradictory information.
Ideally I’m interested in how well the 5000 series works on Wayland setups in normal distros like debian.
In general, mine work fine. Sometimes Linux won’t switch between my CPU and GPU for graphical rendering when I start a game. Seems to be sporadic and changes whenever I update Linux. In general, I just force the GPU to render all graphics as a workaround, but that wouldn’t do well for the battery on a laptop. I also think it’s something my distro doesn’t handle well, but others do better.
I am able to get mine running on Kubuntu. I have a Lenovo legion s7 slim laptop with a mobile 3060 GPU. I would not choose Nvidia if I could (can’t afford to replace my laptop), but it is possible in theory to get them working, just finicky. From my understanding it has become a lot better in recent history though. Nvidia says the latest drivers (I think the version is like 580) is compatible with pretty much all modern Nividia GPUs (so like 3xxx series and up).
That is the same with nvidia drivers on windows nowadays. They keep pushing updates that just break shit.
Ok so I’m not alone. I’m currently watching my Ubuntu burn to the ground :(
Nope. Had my games constantly crash my PC after an update. Had to ddu the whole thing and go back to a known working driver from a month ago. Not updating that shit anymore unless strictly required
When I got the latest kernel on my Arch laptop, the touchpad didn’t work for a month (luckily it was fixed by installing the LTS kernel)
But I like to stay on the bleeding edge, otherwise I would have chosen Debian
That’s true for any update though.
it is probably me only ever using igpus but the linux graphics stack never broke on me, always worked flawless. nvidia users in the other hand, have the opposite experience
Isn’t it more like “I haven’t updated in a while, let’s see what’s new”?
Then I hope it doesn’t break stuff.
To quote Marco Pierre White “Its your choice.”