I want to make the move to Mint at the end of Win10 in a week or so, but I've heard some horror stories about how tough it can be to get Nvidia GPUs working with them. As it is I have a 4060TI and no money for an AMD GPU. If I can't get my GPU working with Linux I'm probably gonna end up having to stick with Windows untim I can afford an AMD GPU, the thought of which doesn't exactly excite me.

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[–] 12 points 1 year ago

The issues with Nvidia GPU's has been blown up way to much in the last few years in my opinion.

The potential problems you "might" face are:

  • Not backing up your system before updating
  • Using too old or too new a kernel version (Older versions may break or cause issue with newer drivers and bleeding edge kernels may introduce issues that weren't caught during QA) * Always have a LTS kernel installed as well as a newer supported kernel
  • Using brand new hardware too soon (aka don't expect a newly released card to work perfectly day one)
  • Trying to use GPU's in edge case uses or pushing the envelope without knowing what you are doing
  • Not backing up your system
  • Trying to use the wrong kind of card for your needs (A Quadro card isn't going to work well as a RTX card)
  • Not updating your system (Nvidia drivers get regular updates)

For most major distros now a days you either select the Nvidia option when installing (like Manjaro) or install the drivers afterwards (Ubuntu based) and be off to the races.

Set up and use Timeshift, make a backup before installing updates and you can roll back if there is an issue.

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