So I want to install Fedora because windows 10 will be left in dusty shelves in a few days but I am afraid because I heard nvidia is famous for its incompability with linux distros. When I googled nvidia supported distros Fedora was the mostly recommended one. Would I have lots of problems if I installed Fedora right now?
Best way to see if you nvidia card will work is try the live usb. The open source driver should work in most cases if not you can enable rpmfusion repositories and get the correct Nvidia driver for your card. Nvidia has been getting better with linux over time. I run Fedora 42 KDE and love it.
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thanks i will try now
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If you want to test/check NVIDIA on Linux without installing, Fedora live media (most of live medias) is not a good way to try NVIDIA driver, since Fedora’s and most distro’s live medias don’t include NVIDIA drivers. Nobara, on the Fedora based side, would be the one to go to test it. CachyOS, on the Arch Linux based side, would be another. On the Ubuntu/Debian side I’m not sure which live medias have the driver.
Which model of nvidia gpu do you have? We can advise what drivers would be needed.
I used to run kde plasma on a rtx 3060 using rpmfusion drivers and it worked great. (I upgrade to a faster AMD GPU recently).