I am seeing A LOT of messages in A LONG column of various tests.
I am here just and only to say this:
Nvidia on Linux is more than fine.
I’ve had more problems during Fedora KDE 38, 39 and 40 with stuff that needed to be installed through the Konsole and settings buried in some bad UI than with the Nvidia RPM Fusion drivers.
Only times they stopped working were (1) when I tried to install newer ones from the Nvidia’s Website (never again) and (2) maybe for a day and 1/2 at most when there was an update and the drivers didn’t work or something (fallback to Nouveau).
Nvidia is so fine enough that I am managing to use Nouveau on a GT 710 to run Desktop stuff ok!
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If anything, AMD i/GPUs also sometimes have problems during updates, like the Kaveri ones 3 months ago:
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Listen OP, please, other than “if your issue got fixed then appoint a message with the solution flag on it”, please edit the opening message by adding the result of inxi -Fzxx in the Konsole.
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As a closure:
Anyone and everyone is free to install whatever Linux Distro they want, but personally I prefer not to get a branch of a branch, evenmore because they are usually supported by just “a dude”.
I got stock Fedora because it’s maintained with relatively contemporaneous software and drivers, it has a large userbase (so more community support) and it’s developed by a company too.
I don’t really care about most of the stuff “happening in the back” because I am just an End User. A Middle Man between “what’s a folder?” and “I coded a new General Artificial Intelligence on the PC I crafted by hand”, but still a end user.
I want my PC to just work and I also want a human GUI, so I got KDE.
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I can say that, except for cases when there’s an hardware failure, a software corruption, or the stars just align to explode your computer, basically all Operating Systems will just work as intended.
The only issue is when clear instructions are absent and so the user is lost and can’t learn how to make stuff work, but that’s not a case here most of the time.
(Go look at the Keyboard’s page in settings, it may as well be written in hieroglyphs on an UFO’s console, and then there was THIS travesty:)