• AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 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.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
    3·
    7 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.”

  • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    It ain’t like it used to be. Just upgraded my machine to an Nvidia for the first time in like 10+ years.

    sudo apt install nvidia

    After a reboot it was smooth as hell. I remember the dark ages. I remember fucking with X.org settings. 😐

    • RadicalEagle@lemmy.world
      0·
      7 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.

      • Doombot1@lemmy.one
        0·
        7 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
          0·
          7 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
            01·
            7 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

    • macniel@feddit.de
      1·
      7 months ago

      Be happy that you live in the days where installing Nvidia drivers is as easy as it is right now… There were… darker times.

  • summerof69@lemm.ee
    0·
    7 months ago

    pacman -S nvidia and I’ve never had any issues. I know that it’s not that easy in some other distros, but maybe stop using shitty distros.

    • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      This is the most Arch Linux comment I’ve read in a while. This is easy in most mainstream distros now, but there are exceptions like NixOS or Gentoo, which aren’t shitty but are just harder for specific reasons.