• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    My 3080ti graphics card. To my knowledge, NVIDIA drivers are still a mess on Linux, and any suggestion to “just switch to AMD” is neither helpful nor appreciated; as if dropping $500+ for a new graphics card when my current one works perfectly fine is in ANY way a valid solution.

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      15 days ago

      Nvidia works fine on Linux. I have an nvidia card at home, and I support a bunch of them at work. It’s easy. https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/driver-installation-guide/latest/index.html

      Use the network installation to add the deb or rpm repo, then choose whether you want the open or proprietary drivers. Install the package and that’s it, your package manager will handle the dependencies.

      You may need to create and enroll a dkms key if you have secureboot enabled and you haven’t done that already, but that’s the only wrinkle.

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        14 days ago

        How do you stop them from randomly uninstalling themselves? A bunch of guys use Ubuntu at work and the Nvidia drivers would randomly nuke themselves occasionally when the device is turned off and they’d have to force CLI mode and do a reinstall.

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          14 days ago

          I’ve never seen that happen. But the transaction that caused it should be in the package manager log.

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            14 days ago

            I was going to say. That’s never happened to me in Debian, Fedora, PopOS, Linux Mint, EndeavourOS, CachyOS, Nobara or Bazzite. Is this a Ubuntu only issue?

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              14 days ago

              We use Ubuntu at work and I’ve never seen it. At home I use Debian and I’ve also never seen it there on my desktop, laptop, or server.