Shame, shame, shame on the Leap team for allowing a beta driver to enter mainstream Leap. This is BAD release management at its worst. Broke lots of systems. Leap is supposed to be stable … I use Leap for stability … and will soon use Debian instead of …
I am sooooooo sick of the nvidia driver game that my “inner cheapskate” self finally lost to the “inner geek”, as in I ordered a Sparkle A380 Elf today! Call me ten years late to cancel culture, but I am cancelling nvidia! I will soon cancel SUSE as well … if Leap can’t be stable, there is no reason to use it.
The baked in encode/decode features are what finally broke the “cheapskate”. I suspect I will have to compile my own ffmpeg to take advantage of the encoding feature, but maybe not.
Thanks to @malcolmlewis pointing me in an interesting direction!
Well nvidia rocks along here, but on Turing based GPUs, I have a Tesla P4 (Pascal) as well, that still works fine… Again, I subscribe to the cuda and driver run files which have no issues…
There is absolutely no doubt quite a few folks will chime in and state “never had an issue with NVIDIA - works great”.
We avoid that hardware, but that’s a personal opinion.
Here’s an interesting perspective … count the number of issues posted out here (mostly in TW section) with “I use NVIDIA”, compared to other graphics hardware.
I would love to know … in a scientific sense … as in really good mathematically useful data …who use gnu/linux successfully with nvidia …
I suspect the number is rather low … while it is certainly possible to use nvidia on gnu/linux (I have done so for decades) … I guess most folk just give up …
Lol. Did you have a look at the market share? No? I will give you a hint.
In 2024 the market share of discrete Nvidia GPUS was 90% compared to 10% AMD.
Once upon a time, I actually recommend gnu/linux over Mac or Windows for most user needs. I can no longer do that! Once upon a time, there real advantages to using gnu/linux over the commercial OSes. Those advantages still exist, but only to those of us who can and will hack code. For the average user, the guy from pennciltucky or wherever, this system is dead and un-friendly.
20 years for me with Nvidia, always used the run file (and SaX). I have one test system now with just an Nvidia card for the nay sayers
I think the real issue is with Nvidia moving to concentrate on Turing+ and everything else is Legacy will upset a few folks, a) folks with older cards and patches required on newer kernels and b) folks with newer cards having to wait for (a) to be completed…
Hopefully usage of the open driver will mitigate that somewhat, I use the MIT/GPL driver which is the default…
Most folk just want a system the actually works, no tuning, no tweaking, no thinking, install and be dumb! It is what I want, and I am MUCH smarter than the average bear :).
Obvious rant is obvious, but ultimately the title is correct. I was on an RTX 3090 and had no issue for a couple of years, but then had months of black screen issues and was constantly having to rollback last year. I ended up side-grading to a 7900 XTX and have not had an issue since. I think people are just best off avoiding Nvidia on Linux tbh.
