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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm so confused by why people have trouble with Nvidia on Linux. I have been using Debian and Ubuntu for as long as I can remember with Nvidia and it's never been a problem. Now I use Pop and it's perfectly fine too. No problem running dual 4K 60Hz monitors... Is the support bad on non-Debian distros?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Depends on the distro. I spent a lot of time in the TTY with NixOS before I was able to get my 4070 Ti working. On Pop it worked out of the box, but that's not a worthwhile trade-off to me these days. Nix or bust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What about 4K 120Hz with HDR? How well does that work on Linux with nVidia?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Use KDE on the very latest kernel on Wayland, in theory it should work well but YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good to know, thanks. I want to switch so badly but last time I checked, HDR support on *nix is still in its early stages. I'll check it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

KDE very recently implemented some HDR support thanks to Valve, GNOME is still waiting on some PR getting merged.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

4k 120Hz will work without any special setup but HDR is a whole nother thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

On EndeavourOS I had some trouble for a bit but I think I got some drivers from flatpak and they worked with no problem.