I’m planning on changing to Linux eventually, but my PC has a 4060ti. I have heard that Nvidia drivers are a pain to install, and I don’t have the means to change to a non-Nvidia GPU. Am I in trouble?

  • brax
    2·
    5 days ago

    Not necessarily a pain to install, however I’ve had a lot of stupid issues - like not being able to open a TTY session., I can’t run Sway, and Hyprland absolutely refuses to work with my 3 monitor setup.

    • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      3 days ago

      That’s strange. What distro are you on? What drivers? Hyprland runs just fine on my machine (arch, nvidia-dkms, rtx a6000)

      • brax
        2·
        3 days ago

        Arch, gtx980, nouveau.

        Maybe I should check out dkms

          • brax
            2·
            3 days ago

            Yeah, no idea. Turns out I already had dkms installed. Ah well, it’s not a huge deal because I can still ssh or live-usb boot if I really cook something

          • brax
            2·
            3 days ago

            I agree. I’m a long-time Linux user and I’ve never seen this before. TTY works fine on bootup, but I’m guessing as soon as the Nvidia drivers kick in, that’s when it shits the bed. I’ll make some btrfs snapshots and try the dickums (lol) driver later today. Here’s hoping!