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- Model: Asus ROG Strix G15 (G531GV)
- CPU: Intel I7 9th Gen
- GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060 6GB
- Ram: 16GB
- Storage: Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB (NVME)
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I've tried a 3060 as well, which was a nightmare too. Although that was in a laptop so I'm not sure if that's a laptop-specific thing.
I doubt it though, since every other update would render it unbootable, and there was excessive flickering, both of which also happened with the 1080 Ti.
I do know that AMD "just works", though.
Nvidia needs to seriously improve before they're right for a typical Linux user.
Shit, Valve's new big picture mode was delayed for like a year because it was unusable on Nvidia hardware. Doesn't exactly sound bug-free to me mate.
😂I would love to travel to you to show that it works
Except, as I and others are telling you, it doesn't "just work".
A crying-laughing emoji is not a counter-argument.
I think it would make sense to actually specify what you mean by nightmare and on what disto to make an argument. Many people have 30xx GPU and they all use the same driver too and if it works for them (same card, same driver) that means it might not be a NVIDIA issue but a distro/setup issue. Don't expect a proper counter argument if you don't make a proper argument. I use a laptop similar to OP's question and the GPU is sleeping all the time because it uses Intel's integrated GPU for generic tasks, dGPU only wakes up for Vulkan or CUDA tasks like gaming and AI. I don't remember when was the last time NVIDIA broke the boot process but it was at least 5 years ago back when I was still using Arch and init.d and it was an Arch problem for pushing a kernel which was incompatible with NVIDIA driver and not specifying version compatibility. The GTX 2060 is supported by the opensource kernel driver so that cannot be an issue either anymore. On the other hand I also have a AMD card which does not support hardware acceleration on Fedora by default because of mesa and I have to swap packages to add support which breaks dnf sometimes. So should I hate AMD now?
Debian, Fedora, EndeavourOS (arch).
Nvidia's issues on Linux are very well documented... even by the inventor of Linux himself. I didn't realise I had to bring receipts.
As for what do I mean by nightmare, I already said. It would break after updates, I had constant flickering, stuttering, and artefacts. No it wasn't a hardware issue. They're Nvidia driver issues.
To me, that's a nightmare. I need my machine to function, and with Nvidia, it couldn't.