| ▲ | drnick1 4 days ago | |
> Nvidia's Linux support remains abysmal for most cards. I can't relate. My 3090 works flawlessly on Arch, and I can play any game that does not intentionally ban Linux users through anticheat. | ||
| ▲ | jeroenhd 4 days ago | parent [-] | |
If you can figure out how to install Arch, you're not exactly a mainstream gamer. My 1080 also runs ~fine in Ubuntu (driver updates require a full reboot or GPU accelerated applications fail to launch). Guessing the right kernel parameters to make sleep work was a fun game that lasted a while, though. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting is that long for a reason. Laptop GPUs are hit the worst, of course. No distro I've found can figure out how to keep the iGPU and Nvidia dGPU 1) running at the same time (so screens and HDMI work) and 2) run at more than 40fps. Nvidia forum posts go unanswered, laptop vendor forum posts are basically useless, and reported bugs/issues go stale and eventually get autoclosed. Nvidia hardware either works fine out of the box, or you're going to lose many hours beating it into functioning form. | ||