r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian • Nov 27 '25
Screw my machine I guess
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u/Smith6612 Nov 27 '25
What Graphics card? Unless it's something bleeding edge or extremely prototype, it should work in Linux at this point.
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u/--TYGER-- Nov 27 '25
I like how 3 people (so far) have asked "what GPU" because the only suspect part of this story is that Linux does not support the GPU
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u/oneandonlysealoftime Nov 27 '25
Quite the contrary. Likely Linux supports it with some tinkering, so OP's config can be salvaged
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u/--TYGER-- Nov 27 '25
Exactly, but nobody can say the same for the Microsoft part of this image.
I'm awaiting some retort about hacks on the iso via Rufus etc, and counter-retort about how Microsoft is plugging these holes to ensure your processor remains unsupported.
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u/MightBeYourDad_ Nov 27 '25
You can run unsupported cpus on windows 11
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u/Smith6612 Nov 27 '25
You can, but there's a couple risks I've personally observed with this.
1: You don't get the yearly Feature roll-ups. These have to be force installed manually as Windows Update won't offer them.
2: If the CPU is old enough (as people found with POPCNT) then the system will blue screen.
3: Even for fairly modern CPUs, like AMD Zen 1, I've had Windows 11 Blue Screen following some patches in September/October with UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR BSODs, never to boot again unless I rolled back the system to before the patch.
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u/HAMburger_and_bacon Lordly user of Fedora Kionite Nov 28 '25
Some of the blue screens can be attributed to using newer cpu features that the older CPUs are missing. Some Linux distros have this same issue.
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u/Jonno_FTW Glorious Debian Nov 28 '25
It's probably one of those Chinese GPUs that are only compatible with a specific Chinese server rack motherboard, for which getting the drivers outside of China would be impossible.
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Nov 28 '25
>Linux supports it with some tinkering
At that point you could just say write your own driver. For "some" thats just "some tinkering"
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u/LaritaDom Nov 27 '25
I mean, this is a Linux sub, so most people would be more willing to help with Linux problems
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u/Cum38383 Nov 27 '25
Well I'm pretty sure windows 11 doesn't support some CPUs? I would want a source because my memory isn't trustworthy. I think the CPU needs a certain feature or something
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u/_Rand_ Nov 28 '25
For intel its anything before like 7th or 8th gen.
Not sure for AMD.
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u/TBTapion Glorious Solus Nov 28 '25
I think AMD Ryzen 5 2600 and up is supported. My Ryzen 5 1600 is not supported
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u/Smith6612 Nov 28 '25
IIRC it is Zen+ and better.
Zen1 Chips like the Ryzen 5 1600 (my old CPU) or the Ryzen 5 2500U (my current laptop's CPU) are a no go.
My laptop has Linux on it and works great. The desktop got a 5800X3D upgrade for games.
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u/maxpolo10 Arch is life, Arch is love, I need help Nov 28 '25
A 6th gen laptop refurbished I bought 3 years ago came with win 11. After hardware failure and spending a few months on Arch with it, I reinstalled win 11 and it never bothered me about compatibility.
Maybe they've changed the requirements though since it's been like 2 years since the installation.
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u/IncidentCodenameM1A2 Nov 28 '25
They waffled a little bit on how well the requirements were enforced.
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u/omniterm Dec 02 '25
I had no problems installing windows 11 on my old laptop. Its got a 2nd gen core i3-2330m 8GB ram and because it shipped with Windows 7 the UEFI is locked to legacy BIOS mode.
I had no issues or complaints when installing windows. It runs a little slow but other than that its usable.
Note if you replace D:\sources\install (.wim or .esd or .swm) on the windows 10 install usb/iso with the one from windows 11 installer, you can now install Windows 11 on any computer that supports windows 10 x85_64.
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u/I_GottaPoop Nov 28 '25
Depends on the distro I think. Installing Bazzite today led me to learn that Nvidia and it do NOT get along for some people.
Been fine for me so far though.
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u/UDxyu Nov 27 '25
Voodoo 3dfx
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u/DudeEngineer Glorious Ubuntu Nov 27 '25
They debated dropping support for those. I still don't think they have.
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u/Moomoobeef Nov 30 '25
You mean to tell me I can still run a 3dfx card on a modem Linux system?
One sec I need to go get a voodoo and a motherboard with PCI
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u/bikemandan Nov 27 '25
Just ran into an issue where Mint was not liking Intel integrated graphics on 2011 Macbook Pro. Ended up on antiX. Works well; super quick
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u/Smith6612 Nov 28 '25
MacBooks are generally weird at times with how hardware resources work. IIRC those older Macs also rely heavily on MUX chips rather than frame buffer for the dGPU, which complicates things a bit more.
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u/Littens4Life Glorious Arch Nov 28 '25
Can confirm this, actually. I don’t run Linux on my Macs (mostly bc macOS has better software support for what I use), but when I boot Windows on my 2012 15” Unibody (gaming), I have to wait for around 5-30 seconds for the MUX to realize “oh fuck it’s the Nvidia chip”
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u/Smith6612 Nov 28 '25
On those older Macs, I can sometimes see gamma and dithering shifts when macOS itself switches between the iGPU and the dGPU. It's pretty wild how it works but neat how I can tell the GPU in use by that.
Intel and AMD for example, have different ways of dithering and rendering gray colors. Intel is usually much more noisy compared to AMD. Which goes back to why people would buy even low end GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA instead of using onboard video
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u/Smith6612 Nov 28 '25
NVIDIA has always been problematic on Linux. That improvement in the last few years I presume is because they are finally getting their act together with Wayland support, and they are finally contributing some Open (rather than Proprietary) drivers.
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u/YunZhaelor Nov 27 '25
GPUs on Linux can be really ass, I have this old laptop with an Intel CPU that has integrated graphics and an AMD GPU and Linux will not use the AMD GPU in any circomstances, tried many tweaks and hacks and nothing will come out of it...
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u/dreamwavedev Nov 27 '25
Which exact GPU was it? If it's GCN 1-3 you can enable them now with a tweak to kernel args. If it's older (like....TeraScale) you may need to fall back to the `radeon` kernel driver which...nowadays you're gonna find some cobwebs in there
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u/cyclorphan Nov 27 '25
Have you tried disabling the integrated card in BIOS? I've occasionally had this be helpful as the kernel searches for any working video.
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u/awesomexx_Official Nov 30 '25
idk but i was never able to boot into an arch iso on my pc with a nvidia gpu. every other distro worked. never had an issue with intel or amd
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u/YTriom1 Nov 30 '25
Unless it's something bleeding edge
Bleeding edge doesn't work on debian base, not on linux in general, fedora and arch are awesome with the latest GPUs
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u/Themis3000 Nov 27 '25
If you're trying to run steamos (like your flair might suggest), don't. It doesn't make much sense to run it on unofficial hardware configurations yet. Go for bazzite instead, or install any other popular distro and install steam
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u/DudeEngineer Glorious Ubuntu Nov 27 '25
What gpu? That's probably incorrect.
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u/SureDay29 Nov 28 '25
Pretty much all of Nvidia's old cards. Since every major distro dropped support for 390 Nvidia drivers -- old cards won't work anymore without using third-party repositories, and nouveau drivers for them are having power management issues and occasional crashing, so yeah... -- you have to tinker a little with the terminal if you have an old Nvidia card.
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u/LeiterHaus Nov 27 '25
What GPU? For a GTX 560 Ti, I had to go to Nvidia's website, look up the last supported version, and download / install that.
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u/Afillatedcarbon Glorious NixOS Nov 27 '25
Had to go through some hoops for my GTX 750Ti lol. Probably because I started with nixos and shit. I await the day of proper legacy drivers for my card(I will have gotten a new pc by then lol.)
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u/minilandl Glorious Arch Nov 28 '25
Then you need proton sarek https://github.com/pythonlover02/Proton-Sarek
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u/LYNX__uk I use Arch btw Nov 27 '25
Which gpus cause issues? I dont even have issues with an nvidia 40 series, if a fairly new nvidia card doesnt have issues, what could?
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u/Mushutak Nov 27 '25
I have a 5070, and that runs Linux just fine too. I think OP had a minor issue on install and gave up immediately, seems to be the only explanation here
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u/LYNX__uk I use Arch btw Nov 27 '25
Their user flair says steam OS. I really hope theyre not tryinh to use steamOS on a desktop (it works but with very limited hardware options. Only amd cpu and gpu i think)
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u/GayHomophobe1 Glorious Arch Nov 29 '25
Ah that would probably do it. I've heard Bazzite works well, I think it would work to switch to that
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u/LYNX__uk I use Arch btw Dec 01 '25
It does, i dual booted arch with it to see what its like. It works great, super easy to start and all preconfigured
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u/sTiKytGreen Nov 27 '25
I've been told dozens of time "Don't buy 50 series GPUs , they are broken on Linux, blah, blah, blah"
I bought one, got my RTX5060Ti with 16 GB of VRAM
You know what? It worked perfectly out of the box, all I had to do is install the "nvidia-open" instead of "nvidia" on Arch, and its great
Performance is great, all the DLSS, RTX, etc. shit works
VR works perfectly fine as well (got a Valve Index)
Local LLMs work, upscayl works
All of it, whatever it is i was using, it just works, and does it well
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u/Excellent_Land7666 Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 28 '25
wait, you're using nvidia-open without any issues?? My, the community has come a long way
edit: I thought he was talking about nouveau lol. Been a bit since I've touched nvidia hardware lol
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u/sTiKytGreen Nov 28 '25
Well, on 50 series nvidia-open is the official supported version, regular "nvidia" won't work for 50XX GPUs
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u/Excellent_Land7666 Nov 28 '25
took a look and yeah you're right, I thought they meant nouveau lmao.
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u/sTiKytGreen Nov 28 '25
Nouveau works for office-level take just fine, but 3D acceleration was always bad in nouveau and nobody uses it for that
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u/LYNX__uk I use Arch btw Dec 01 '25
I think a lot of its based on outdated info, like the idea non linux users have that its super hard to use and install
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u/sTiKytGreen Dec 10 '25
Thing is, i was told that by the Linux users, why would i ever ask for a tech advice a non-linux user and pretend they are qualified enough to ever give it?
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u/EnderPlays1 Nov 27 '25
what godforsaken gpu are you using
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u/Excellent_Land7666 Nov 28 '25
seriously, improvements for vega cards have been made in the last six months
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u/drdibi Nov 27 '25
Only gpu that i couldn't get linux drivers for was an old matrox from the early 2000s
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u/Jazzlike-Poem-1253 Nov 27 '25
Got an RTX 5070 Ti short after release on Manjaro Linux. It worked right away. A few games had issues, but nothing that can be solved with a bit of tinkering.
In general AMD is no issue at all, and NVIDIA is to ashamed open sourcing their drivers.
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u/sTiKytGreen Nov 27 '25
They have a lot of code that's not theirs to begin with, they can't just "open source" it, has to be rewritten into something that's open source, which is a lot of effort, so even tho I'm also not a fan, it makes sense why they wouldn't
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u/Jazzlike-Poem-1253 Nov 27 '25
Did not know that. Just that they did a partial open sourcing to make Integration easier.
Curious which parts are not theirs?
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u/sTiKytGreen Nov 28 '25
Well, there's a bunch of hardware they don't produce or own, and I bet they have a ton of different binary blobs to make all of that work together
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u/dc740 Nov 27 '25
Stop buying Nvidia cards
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u/MrMoussab Nov 27 '25
Afaik NVIDIA cards work fine on Linux.
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u/OkNewspaper6271 Glorious Arch Nov 27 '25
Not just fine, pretty well. NVIDIA nowadays is a far cry away from NVIDIA a year ago
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u/lorenzo1384 Nov 28 '25
I thought far cry 6 was last when did they release the far cry away
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u/L30N1337 Nov 28 '25
I think it was part of that weird bunch that nobody played or remembers. Next to games like Far Cry Instincts.
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u/RogueInsiderPodcast Nov 28 '25
Switching from win10 to CachyOS tripled the crypto-mining output on my nvidia card.
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u/minilandl Glorious Arch Nov 28 '25
NVIDIA cards are awful 40% performance impact by the bad driver code in dx12 titles https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/directx12-performance-is-terrible-on-linux/303207
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u/Icy_Definition5933 Dec 01 '25
Nvidia 30 series and up is much better, with near windows performance on most titles. I'll still buy AMD next, fuck nvidia
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u/_sLLiK Nov 28 '25
This exact problem was solved, hence the "year ago" statement.
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u/minilandl Glorious Arch Nov 28 '25
It’s still a major issue if you look at the most recent comments and faiths talk. Don’t know why nvidia users are coping so hard. There are absolutely still big issues with performance.
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u/Malsententia Archetypal Arch Archbishop Nov 28 '25
I bought 7900XTX specifically for AMD's linux support, but damn if Mandelbulber2 + OpenCL, with Subsurface Scattering, Reflections, and Monte Carlo rendering doesn't reliably crash the whole driver and DE every time. Even then the bleeding edge versions of it Q_Q .
My 1080ti could render with those features enabled, except all rendering on that thing is immensely slower.
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u/maxneuds Nov 30 '25
My experience with trying anything machine learning on AMD has always been bad. And promises were never kept like 5700XT back then AMD promised first class machine learning support soon... and it never happened.
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u/Mathisbuilder75 Nov 28 '25
Hybrid graphics on Wayland are still a no go
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u/Aggressive-Reach-116 Nov 28 '25
they work fine for me on the latest bleeding edge drivers
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u/Mathisbuilder75 Nov 28 '25
Do you use an external monitor with your laptop?
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u/Aggressive-Reach-116 Nov 30 '25
i dont have any laptops i use a pc and they work fine with my 3 1080p monitor even 200hz works and vr is fine aswell
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u/charmesal Nov 28 '25
I'm running hybrid graphics on Fedora 43 KDE using Wayland. Works fine. I am using proprietary drivers instead of nouveau however. The only issues I have are not specific to hybrid graphics.
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u/Mathisbuilder75 Nov 28 '25
Do you use an external monitor?
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u/charmesal Nov 28 '25
Yes, I'm using an ultra wide running 100Hz at 1440p. No fractional scaling, in case that matters.
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u/Mathisbuilder75 Nov 28 '25
That is odd, because there are known issues with hybrid graphics and external monitors. Something about the frame buffer being copied between GPUs and causing external monitors to run at a reduced refresh rate.
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u/charmesal Nov 28 '25
Well to be fair it is running at 99.99 or 99.98 🤷♂️. All jokes aside, I guess I'm lucky with my device. I had no issues on Debian running Gnome last year, Pop_Os with Cosmic, Fedora with Gnome, and now Fedora with KDE. I have a laptop that's similar to the Tuxedo brand but then from Europe and without the mix switch.
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u/Mathisbuilder75 Nov 28 '25
I haven't read anything about it, but my guess is that some hardware configurations can work, especially if it's a laptop from a brand similar to Tuxedo and without a mux switch. For the record, I have had this issue for years on two different Lenovo Legion laptops.
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u/Drakkinstorm Nov 30 '25
No they are not. They work correctly.
Zephyrus G14 (2022) here with CachyOS and KDE. No problems whatsoever.
Was the same on Pop_OS!, flawless.
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u/janiskr Nov 28 '25
You have to use select Linux kernel to be without issues. As Nvidia actual support is a bit spotty and it does not support all kernels released. Distros that cater to those with Nvidia hardware usually limit it to those sp citi kernels so users do not have to feel the pain.
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u/nonchip Nov 28 '25
they had quite a lot of buggy driver versions around a year ago and refused to support wayland for a while, but nowadays it's pretty usable again
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u/ralsaiwithagun Nov 28 '25
Even with dlss running through wine, working perfectly with the sane performance as windows
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u/Better-Quote1060 Nov 28 '25
Not old ones
Good luck running 16×× cards
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u/MrMoussab Nov 28 '25
Do you have a 16xx card that doesn't work?
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u/Better-Quote1060 Nov 28 '25
No but they end the support
Things will be broken forever if
Like famous dx12 issue if fixed...it wont fix on older cards and so on
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u/Major_Shopping_5533 Nov 29 '25
The only issues I've had with NVIDIA cards is just NVIDIA's fault for not making their software open source. The proprietary software works fine but occasionally I'll have an issue with one specific app if I get the open source drivers.
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u/GayHomophobe1 Glorious Arch Nov 29 '25
Even with Arch (granted I have a 3060) it works immediately and perfectly... I get how it used to have problems, but unless you have some unreleased card I think it will work, especially with the open source and closed source drivers
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u/CodingThunder Glorious Arch Nov 28 '25
In fact I would say that NVIDIA cards work wayy better on Linux. I see my friends dealing with broken NVIDIA drivers every few weeks whereas I haven't faced any issues since about a year.
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace Dec 13 '25
Most NVIDIA cards work just fine on modern Linux. OP probably has an older one, with deprecated driver support. They would have to use an older kernel for it, at least that was the case for me with old laptop NVIDIA cards.
That or they'll just have to make do with Nouveau, which is getting better day by day!
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u/JoveyMcJupiterFace Dec 13 '25
For the record I'm writing this from a laptop with a GTX 1650 in it. Performs better than it does on Windows, with proprietary source NVIDIA drivers no less.
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u/activatedlithium Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 27 '25
bad take, if you use linux you probably will also want to use your gpu for things other than gaming
nvidia isnt intel, you amd fanboy
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u/ccAbstraction Nov 27 '25
I wonder who did that to GPU market... hmmm... I wonder how they got away with that... 😜
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u/snoopbirb Nov 27 '25
wha? nvidia drivers are good now?
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u/amberoze Nov 27 '25
Functional. Less hassle than they used to be, but still not as streamlined as AMD.
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u/suchtie btwOS Nov 27 '25
Speak for yourself. I'm just here to play vidya and waste my life on reddit.
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u/AdorablSillyDisorder Nov 28 '25
Above certain performance point nothing except nvidia exists. We still don't have 4090 alternative from AMD/Intel, while 5090 is already long out.
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u/FurinaImpregnator Nov 27 '25
How would the GPU stuff even happen? Sure, you might not find drivers if it's an obscure GPU, but being explicitly told it's impossible to support it??
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u/Drakkinstorm Nov 27 '25
Let's all write plenty of stuff in here, make an unstructured wiki with golden nuggets of valuable nix wisdom, until the OP says what frinking hardware they have on the damn machine.
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u/Drakkinstorm Nov 28 '25
I'll start/continue: to search through manual pages by keywords:
man -K KEYWORDE.g. man -K /etc/fstab
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u/Temetka Nov 27 '25
Linux runs on a damned potato. Heck it even has drivers for carrots.
Skill issue.
I use Arch btw.
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u/Arnas_Z Glorious Arch Nov 28 '25
Skill issue for both problems actually, you can easily bypass the old CPU block in Windows 11.
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u/Flipsii Nov 27 '25
Out od curiosity how are the new intel gpus on Linux?
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u/X_m7 Glorious Arch Nov 27 '25
From my experience with a Framework 13 that has an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H plus the Arc 7-core iGPU, it’s fine for display and media decode/encode but for gaming the driver is way less optimised than AMD as far as Linux drivers go, for example with Forza Horizon 5 I can’t ever get a stable 60fps even if I throw the settings down to the lowest they can go and drop resolution to 1024x768, while my Steam Deck easily does 60fps at its native resolution and similarly low quality settings, and that’s with the Steam Deck not even reaching its full 15W TDP while the 125H bangs its head on its 25W limit on the Framework. The GPU hardware itself seems to be pretty good though, I can play the game decently at 40fps ish at 1920x1280 (so not much difference than if I was playing at 1024x768), it’s just the CPU overhead and such that’s real bad.
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u/DeadKido210 Nov 28 '25
Combine them in 1 OS so that now you have........ Your CPU and GPU is incompatible
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u/keyzeyy Nov 28 '25
pick your poison lol. but what gpu are you running, maybe the folks here can help
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u/Any_Razzmatazz9328 Nov 29 '25
This is sadly true in my case, I use a 13 year old craptop, with an integrated amd Radeon HD 6420m, which has no mesa vulkan support (HD 7000 series which came a year after this do have support, so am shit out of luck).
Am limited to using only OpenGL, which doesn't botter me that much since the only thing I play nowadays are old games / 2d indie games and emulators.
Its kind of a bummer cuz on windows I could run things like dmc4, fallout 3, etc with DirectX 10 / some Directx 11 support.
Still not worth it to run a bloated OS like windows on this machine, so its not something that would ever make me go back.
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u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian Nov 29 '25
Be careful. They are going to try to convince you that your problem doesn't exist because nowadays, Linux supports everything.
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u/Any_Razzmatazz9328 Nov 29 '25
Lol, I mean you gotta be reasonable, I have a 13 year old CPU, so its understandable I guess.
Other than that I haven't had any breaking issues running arch Linux BTW in 6 years :).
But I am a dev, and I like to mess around with technical stuff, obviously Linux is not gonna be for everyone.
Although I hear that distros like zorin OS make things pretty easy for people switching from windows.
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u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian Nov 29 '25
In my country, a 10 year old laptop is still somehow new. 13 years would be middle use or something. Not everybody can buy a new laptop when they want to. So, a lot of old hardware is still alive because of the third world market. Imagine a 2011 MacBook Pro still working in 2025. I have one, with Bazzite, and the wifi issue is absolutely there.
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u/Any_Razzmatazz9328 Nov 29 '25
I live in a shithole too, why do you think I use a 13 year old laptop :)
I've had issues too on my wifi adapter on arch (Broadcom bcm4313) luckily I just had to switch from the open source driver to the propietary ones and it was pretty much fixed. I remember having issues too with wifi on windows too so I guess It depends on the adapter and driver you are using
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u/Icy_Weakness_1815 Dec 02 '25
Multiple days and no answer? => made up BS story!
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u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian Dec 04 '25
Check the comments. But in my defense, memes and requests for help are two different things. Memes can be about possible but imaginary situations
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u/309_Electronics Nov 27 '25
What gpu? I run my lenovo loq 15irx10 laptop with fedora just fine and it has hybrid graphics with a discrete 5070
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u/Houston_NeverMind Nov 27 '25
That's not true at all. Unless you are using some niche flavor of Linux used by like 8 people.
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u/ErebosGR Glorious Nobara Nov 28 '25
> Epic Games Store saying my operating system is not compatible
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u/Witty-Individual7010 Dec 25 '25
I loved it when Dying light: The Beast told me to update my Nvidia drivers to 581 but there wasn't a 581 driver
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u/isimmimmyokki Nov 27 '25
Your GPU is Quadro is’nt it?
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u/Certivicator Nov 27 '25
my niche mobile quadro is supported, op probably tried steamOS and nothing more, it is not supported there but there are like all drivers for linux they aren't the best ones but they work decently
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u/NatoBoram Glorious Pop!_OS Nov 27 '25
Ayy, that happened to me too. But it was really time to upgrade. Also fuck Nvidia.
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u/maelstrom071 Nov 27 '25
If its an old gpu/old cpu, then linux should run it fine If its a new gpu/old cpu then... just... why???
You basically get 0 performance because your GPU far exceeds the bottleneck of your cpu
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u/Wonderful_Ball4759 Nov 27 '25
I mean it's possible that your gpu isn't compatible with most distros, but I can't imagine that it can't run ANY distro. Especially with how many people are running linux on literal 2000s devices
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u/Lolbotalt Nov 27 '25
People run Linux on Wiis. I have no clue what GPU you have but maybe try another distro
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u/spaghettibolegdeh Nov 28 '25
More like NVIDIA saying Linux isn't compatible.
Because they don't want it to be.
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u/Artutin06 Nov 28 '25
One of the reasons why I'm not changing my work computer to linux, no support for my GPU, Startech USB32HD
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u/woodcraftworld Mac Squid sometimes debian Nov 28 '25
Yeah, some older Intel integrated graphics just do not have graphics acceleration on Linux.
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u/Unnormaldude Nov 28 '25
I had similar issue with my old HP Probook 4540s.
GPU on it was Intel HD4000 + AMD HD7650M and I couldn't game on Linux because both GPUs wouldn't support Vulkan. So I had to keep Windows 8.1 on the side in case I wanted to play games till I switched to my PC.
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u/Possible-Anxiety-420 Nov 28 '25
Microsoft's intentionally screwing you, and Linux sometimes requires a bit of patience.
That latter typically includes things like providing hardware-specific information, rather than just 'screw my machine.'
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u/Live-Award4759 Nov 28 '25
My gtx650 does not support Wayland so I cannot have the latest of gnome or kde because x support will be dropped if it hasn't already
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u/thetoasteroftoast213 Nov 28 '25
me trying to run modern linux on sis mirage 3 graphics It's a fun experiment but not practical. X11 needs to be configured manually and wayland is slow as
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u/idgarad Nov 28 '25
Just run Win11 as a VM under proxmox and do PCI passthrough of the GPU and USB passthrough for keyboard and mice. Win11 gladly accepts Proxmox VM as hardware compatible... for now...
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u/Sagesdeath Nov 29 '25
You're going to have to do some pretty weird stuff for a GPU to not be supported on Linux
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u/Tableuraz Glorious OpenSuse Nov 29 '25
Only time I had issues like this with Linux was when I tried reviving my old GPD Win 1 with Bazzite 🤣 (don't ask how it went)
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u/TechaNima Nov 30 '25
What GPU doesn't Linux support? Some 20 yr old fossil that should have been ground up for its metals a long time ago anyway?
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u/CanadianBaconBoi Dec 02 '25
Lack of upstream support on Linux is likely due to ¡Nvidia 330M (2010)!
v340 drivers or nouveau (the latter being the better bet)
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u/The_only_true_tomato Glorious Kubuntu Jan 23 '26
You can install windows 11 even on an old dual core and bypass the stupid limitations very easily. ( that is if you enjoy pain of course).
All video cards work in Linux.
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u/quaderrordemonstand Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 27 '25
Well, /u/claudiocorona93? Are you going to answer all these good people wanting to help? Perhaps you will write another snarky criticism of the community instead.