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#314978 4-Jun-2024 18:53

My background with Linux is in the Slackware world. Very reliable but also takes a bit of work. Thought I would give Ubuntu a try so installed 24.04 LTS.

Run through some updates, restarted and got this:

This is as far as it would go on boot.

What on earth is going on? Used the Nvidia driver for years with Slackware and never had this issue. Ended up reinstalling.

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#3244492 4-Jun-2024 19:06

Nvidia is quite simply a hunk of shit on Linux. And yes, there is no better wording for this. AMD or Intel graphics for Linux, always.

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#3244493 4-Jun-2024 19:09

michaelmurfy:

Nvidia is quite simply a hunk of shit on Linux. And yes, there is no better wording for this. AMD or Intel graphics for Linux, always.

This is an awkward spot. I have always chosen Nvidia and it worked for me. But I won't argue with Mr Linux.

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#3244495 4-Jun-2024 19:25

MichaelNZ: This is an awkward spot. I have always chosen Nvidia and it worked for me. But I won't argue with Mr Linux.

It is night and day when you use AMD Radeon or even Intel on Linux performance wise. You can use Wayland, there are no odd kernel shims etc. I'm personally never buying Nvidia again because of that.

Nvidia do something really bad and that is open sourcing the absolute minimum and in this case it is a shim that is essentially a binary blob loader for their closed source driver. I believe the later Linux kernels have basically broken this too.

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#3244500 4-Jun-2024 19:47

Gone looking for a Radeon card I thought I had and can't find it. So must have given it away or sold it.

Are there any reasonably priced options which fit in a slimline case?

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#3244541 4-Jun-2024 22:47

NVIDIA Production latest has been no trouble in my world but still on 22.04. Which driver version and branch?

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#3244542 4-Jun-2024 22:50

gzt: NVIDIA Production latest has been no trouble in my world but still on 22.04. Which driver version and branch?

OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Nvidia driver: 535.171.04

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#3244601 5-Jun-2024 07:59

I can second 22.04, I have a kubuntu install for games to try out after I got my Steam Deck and became curious how it would fair on my main machine. 535 proprietary from the driver manager, so far haven’t tried upgrading to 24.04 given it’s recency.

See if there are any posts from the linux_gaming or Proton community. It would certainly be some funky config that needs changing, especially if you’re trying Wayland.

If you had onboard Intel that could work if you just wanted it to run. Given nvidia’s vastly majority marketshare, I wish it was easier to get things running with all the feature parity of windows. As it stands, still have to use X11 with a 4k 120Hz screen because theres still a bug in Wayland nvidia for anything other than 60Hz :(

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#3244604 5-Jun-2024 08:06

Its always difficult to get working on Linux. Not Impossible. Sometimes you need to compile drivers from source. I would start with 22.04 first and see if you can get a pre-compiled binary working.

Using an AMD GPU is generally the easiest option though.

As for Nvidia it only really plays nice with windows.

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#3244687 5-Jun-2024 12:05

I think it will depend what you are doing. I'd suggest trying the long term support branch and see if that is a happier place for 24. After that I'm going to suggest more branches ;
) and visit to the NVIDIA support forum. Chances are someone already hit this and has a solution.

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#3244700 5-Jun-2024 12:46

How did you install the Nvidia driver?

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