“I know what no one wants to admit - that everybody is just one bad day away from copy/pasting a
curlcommand that pipes a remote script intosudo.”Sudo? Not likely, on bad days I run as root by default…
Living on the edge I see!
done that
Did he first have to travel back in time to a time when this was hard because that would break a man.
sudo apt install backintime-qtI 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.
I have that same card and just today tried installing the drivers for a fresh install of fedora atomic 40 (KDE). It went worse than I expected.
(before I rant, note that I have a 21:9 monitor which maybe adds extra weirdness/uncommonness.)
- installer was a black screen. No signal to monitor at all. Had to use “basic video mode” from GRUB.
- after install, I updated the system. A reboot caused the resolution to drop extremely low with wrong aspect ratio and refresh rate. Almost unusable for navigating system menus. None of that could not be changed. It wasn’t an issue before the update.
- you have to do a weird workaround to get rpm fusion repos on atomic. Fair enough and fedora docs got you covered. Doing this involves rebooting twice. That’s when I learned that every other reboot consistently would boot into a black screen. So 4-5 reboots later (and a few more to test my theory), I have the repo with nvidia drivers.
- installed the driver only to realize that it will break the install if secure boot is enabled (atomic only issue, I think). System crashed and couldn’t be booted anymore. Results in a freeze that needs a hard reboot. Back to my old OS for now because I’m exhausted.
I can’t believe GPU drivers can break secure boot in 2024. I’m sure there is a logical reason behind it, but I’m shocked that installing anything at all on top of an OS that already supports secure boot would break it. Maybe I’ll try Bazzite because I’m lazy and heard good things. At a glance it appears to be fedora atomic with nvidia drivers installed (amongst many other gaming related things I probably would install anyway eventually).
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…
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
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
“Do you want to know where I got these scars?! I found a handy guide to installing the Wi-Fi drivers I needed, but I couldn’t use it could I? Because it required that I already be online…”
I had to buy an Ethernet dongle for my Lenovo laptop for just such an occasion, and that was an adventure to get working.
In my case, the Ethernet wasn’t working either.
So I had to log into Windows, to try and find out the correct downloads. Failed that too.
WiFi drivers… Bluetooth in general… Printers…
It could make a grown man cry I tell ya. CRY
I always use my usb to phone cable in these situations. Basically any distro has a driver ready to see the phone‘s hotspot network. Saved me a lot of times, lol
I just had to wrestle with this issue for the last few days.
Good news is my joker mask is arriving on Friday!
This brings back repressed memories for trying to get Fedora Core 4 to run on my Dell laptop back in 2005.
Cries in ndiswrapper and b43-fwcutter
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The best part of using Nvidia drivers on Linux was when a newer package version dropped support for my card, because fuck me.
Since then I became paranoid and started backing up all of my apt cache debs.
I’m a simple man:
sudo ubuntu-drivers install nvidia-driver-545$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammyI’m an even simpler man:
pacman -S nvidiaAre you feeling lucky?
nvidia-inst
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
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.
I’m starting to think I’m some kind of Linux Genius because I’ve installed Nobara, clicked on “yes” when it asked me if I wanna install the driver and voilà. Never had an issue except steam flickering but I really don’t care.
Joker as a road weary Linux early adopter is going to live rent free in my head for a long time. Thank you for that.
Funny enough I’ve had more issues with AMD drivers on my Windows machines than I ever have with nVidia on my Linux installs
Literally just changed to a different version by menu with nVidia a week ago when a text bug came up. Only issue on 2 different Linux installs with nVidia over the years.
Compared to ~8 years ago when I had to HUNT DOWN a veeeery specific driver version or my AMD GPU was like “lol idk how to be a GPU” on Win8 (or we’re we using 20 by then I can’t be assed to Google it), and even then it whined constantly and did weird shit
Of course AMD is fine now, wife’s GPU installed no issue and it’s from the same manufacturer, but still funny to me
Then he tried using Wayland on nVidia, and the MF became the darkest Joker we’ve ever had.
apt install nvidia-driver-xxx?
Sometimes you have to update the kernel headers too I guess.
i mean it’s not hard at all depending on your distro…
nvidia-inst
Profit.
Because of this I just use AMD
I use AMD. Unfortunately no HDR on GNOME…
I’m currently giving KDE a whirl, you do get (rough) HDR, but I do miss some of the gnomes polish.
Same after a long career of nVidia cards, I finally swapped to AMD and have not been disappointed. And its sooooo easy…!
