I was a Nobara user and I’ve gone back. Too many updates that Bork the DE/bootloader (TBF it’s not as maintained as AUR) As for fedora… Random NVidia update borked the system too… But I’m resigned as my GPU being cursed rather than the distro being the isue

Uh!? I’ve been lied to! Editing comment for clarity

You may want to tell your friend to check it now!

I got mistaken. See replies for explanation

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Apt: get whatever is in the cached package list

Apt-get: lookup the package to see the latest version and get that one

Unless you always apt update, apt-get is the go to choice for modern day Linux

There’s also the apt-apt command, who triggers any audiophile to start complaining about mainstream music quality these days

Well true but that ain’t native.

Also, great exemple: blender launcher. I work with multiple versions of blenders, and it’s a must have.

I was more interested in using it as a server os, so I used it for mine… But would go to a classic Debian as soon as I need to rebuild the whole os due to some breakage. As a docker box? It’s fine.

Flatpaks are actually mutable. Appimage no idea.

Until you realise that you need to learn a whole programming language to run one executable outside of the package repos

I do respect nix, but it ain’t for me

Nix os is on the fence tho. It is immutable, but got hot reload so…

Yay?

Depends on what distro you used. What’s the distro, driver version and graphic card did you try?

I don’t think so? It comes preinstalled with nouveau, but also offer some proprietary drivers. But the latest need the Ubuntu ppa

Hey! I had the same issue on my RTX3070! What you need is to install the latest Nvidia driver. Those are not available by default and requires you to add the Ubuntu PPA, then you are able to switch with the driver manager gui

Me too. (And when the author gets a chill pill)

It also happens on fedora but to a lesser extent (somehow). It’s all hidden under the Wayland session process

It’s always when I’m using my dedicated GPU, so I guess it’s the driver being fucky.

I have an oddball graphic card so might happen only on it

Of course. Mileage may vary. On some systems it may always work, on others it’s “what’s broken this week”.

Linux is super reliable, and unless you use cutting edge distro, it’s pretty rare than anything breaks. Even Fedora is pretty stable from experience

The only true problems I ever had (and still has), were with Nvidia. And switching distros ain’t saving you. Linux mint? Breaks on suspend. Nobara? Memory leak. Trying newer versions to see if it fixes it? Where’s my bootloader…

I do understand that laptop RTX 3070 are not common, but still. I just want it to work, and have cuda on it. Is that too much to ask?

I don’t get it

Yes and no. Would make sense in os point of view, but not in the gym spotting sense

Mint is my favourite distro. Is everything I want from my computer.

… Except the Nvidia support. I need the actual proprietary driver for cuda and it’s not the easiest of rides.

(I switched to Nobara for better support and now the drivers memory leak. I need the courage to distrohop again)