• obnomus@lemmy.ml
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    27 days ago

    Don’t get me wrong but installing Linux is easy but when new people try it, they run into hardware issue, and I know its no one’s fault but new users spend a lot more time to troubleshoot those issue.

    But also since people are switching to Linux, I think hardware manufacturers will support Linux so most of the things will be just plug and play.

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      27 days ago

      This feels like a 10 year old comment almost. Hardware issues with Linux must be super rare now except for Nvidia, which is because Nvidia has closed drivers and doesn’t care about Linux.

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        27 days ago

        super rare now except for Nvidia

        Which for PC gamers holds the majority of the market…

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        26 days ago

        Yeah but when you buy a gaming laptop like I didn’t know anything about that, and when I moved away from I learned a lot of things. Now I have a laptop with only one gpu and which is RTX 3050 and no igpu and guess what sleep doesn’t work. I haven’t tried nvidia-open but I’ll give it a try because a comment reminded me of that.

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          26 days ago

          Yeah I understand. It really is Nvidia holding Linux back and still the usage is growing every year, so not bad. It would be nice if the most popular graphics card maker could make drivers that work well with Linux but even people who worked on the drivers are admitting they are hell to work with.

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            26 days ago

            Ok so turns out for my issue there is a fix and I tried it and it worked and I can’t believe it.

            All I have to do is create this /etc/modprobe.d/99-nvidia-power.conf, add this to it

            options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1

            options nvidia NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmp

            options nvidia NVreg_EnableS0ixPowerManagement=1

            options nvidia-drm modeset=1 fbdev=1

            and run sudo dracut --rebuild and reboot.

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              26 days ago

              Ah I actually remember that fix!

              I used the same one a couple of years ago when I was on Nvidia. Cool to see it still does it’s job, but sad that it’s still needed.