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Loving PopOS but apparently I can't get the latest Nvidia driver? (Your regularly scheduled "What Distro should I use" thread) (ttrpg.network)
submitted 1 year ago by Gutless2615@ttrpg.network to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Basically the title. Loving PopOS as my daily, but I understand that PopOS uses their own process and makes sure that only a checked driver gets wide release. Great for stability, less great for playing games that just came out. Is there a distro that this community generally recommends for gaming?

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[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I second the "Do not use manjaro". It has incredibly many issues that arch doesn't have and the only advantage is that it comes with an installer.

Arch with nvidia is a bit of a pain though. The nvidia driver updates break my system or some games every 1-2 months.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also the new Arch install script is very easy and reduces the need for Manjaro, even for new users.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I disagree, it just does the steps in the manual for you. You still need to know what's happening.

I tried using it, got a bunch of python stack traces and eventually decided to do it manually. The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

An installer needs to catch stuff like that, so archinstall is beta at best.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the one hand, you're right. But on the other, the fuck is Windows even doing here:

The reason why it failed was that windows put my EFI partition onto a different drive than itself.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

It's windows. It always does absolutely asinine shit like this. It's only getting worse as time goes on, so the earlier you switch to a proper OS, the better.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 year ago

I don't think a Linux installer should need to worry about Windows, frankly.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I would still not recommend arch to new users or people who want a stable system

[–] Zenzio@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tell me if I'm wrong or that's not what you meant. But your Nvidia problem should go away as soon as you use nvidia-dkms (or nvidia-open-dkms) instead of the regular nvidia package (or nvidia-open). I haven't had any problems (of that kind) in a long time.