I finally gave up my Nvidia 2070 Super and rejoined Team red with a 9070 XT. And it’s like this is the way everything was always meant to be.
HDR works without breaking font rendering. Sleep states just work. No more random border flickering in fullscreen or borderless windows. And the fans never even spin up.
I did have to unwind a couple Nvidia workarounds to swap over successfully (like /etc/environment needed cleaning up for sddm-greeter-qt to not core dump).
No ragrets.
No regerts.
Team red 4lyfe (again).
I have an NVidia 3070 RTX and never had any single problems. I really never had problems with NVidia at all on Ubuntu, ever. I always stuck with LTS versions though.
I have had problems in the past with them, but like a decade or more ago.
I’ve bought various cards from GTX 970 up to my current RTX 3090 and never had any real issues. So I recommended an RTX 5060 to my wife’s friend’s kid (we’ve helped him build and upgrade a Linux computer over the last years) because it seemed like the best value he could get for his modest savings. After installing the card for him I spent hours trying to get it working… In the end I got it to boot and use the GPU in games, but the computer still hangs indefinitely if he tries to shut it down, so every time he has to hold the power button to turn it off. Since then I’ve got some suggestions for things to try from the Bazzite discord, so I hope it’ll be possible to fix.
Truly happy for you!
I was originally multi booting LTS Ubuntu to meet reqs for work with Arch for gaming and everything except sleep worked pretty well. The Wayland cutover sucked for years as they fixed one thing and broke another. HDR never worked correctly.
Well with Ubuntu LTS I never had HDR as a feature to begin with lol. So I didn’t have to worry about it.
Should be available OOTB as of 26.04 … At least with kde!
Yeah but I’m switching to Debian. So I still won’t have it for a couple years I think. 🥲
Available as of 13/Trixie last year (gnome 48/kde 6)!
https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-13-release/
Oh nice!!! Thanks for letting me know! :)
Until I saw this, I assumed it must be a problem with newer Nvidia cards because I almost never had a problem with my ancient GTS450 on Mint and LMDE.
And that “almost” is because of the one time something got added to the kernel that didn’t play nice with the OEM driver. Later kernels didn’t have the same problem.
All that said, I’m team AMD again and am likely to stay that way. The old computer was built during a very brief window about 15 years ago where it wasn’t uncool to buy Intel CPUs and NVidia graphics and, I assume, AMD were having problems.
The PC before that was AMD/ATI, hence “again” now.
Same same :3
The only time I had issues with my 3070 was when I was messing around with drivers, and fucked up some stuff, but that was easy enough to fix (and my fault for messing it up in the first place lol)