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    And it all seemingly went so well (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 1 week ago by Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    If I had a dollar for every time the Nvidia driver screwed me over I still couldn't order anything with it because my graphics driver wouldn't load.

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    [–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    RTX 3080 owner here. I get a black screen whenever I try to play a game after the desktop goes to sleep in Linux Mint. The only workaround is to restart the PC and play it before its screensaver comes on. The struggle is real.

    [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    lol lucky you that you can resume from sleep

    [–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Aye, nvidia makes it so something doesn't initialize when my computer wakes up... and something that I can't find is turning on sleep mode in a way that I can't figure out.

    Sometimes Linux does get a groan or two out of me.

    [–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

    Have you considered giving your linux install a little caffeine?

    https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/caffeine

    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Try a distro with a recent kernel and install newest proprietary nvidia drivers

    Like fedora, openSuse TW, bazzite or endeavourOS

    [–] dan@upvote.au 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    install newest proprietary nvidia drivers

    On newer cards, the open source drivers work pretty well as of version 555. The process for installing them is usually very similar to the proprietary drivers, but there's often some flag you need to set to tell it to use the open source ones instead. For Fedora, the instructions are here: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA#Kernel_Open (ignore the part about it only working for data center GPUs, as that's no longer true)

    sudo sh -c 'echo "%_with_kmod_nvidia_open 1" > /etc/rpm/macros.nvidia-kmod'
sudo akmods --kernels $(uname -r) --rebuild

    If you use Nvidia's installer, it automatically uses the open source driver instead of the proprietary one if you have a new enough GPU (20 series or newer)

    [–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago

    I might recommend PopOs. It is also based on Ubuntu, is easy to use for beginners & tailored specifically for use with Nvidia. I've had great luck w/ my laptop that has Optimus.

    Test it with a USB first. The link I provided is an alpha version of their latest release but you can also try the older, more stable version here.

    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Hey! I had the same issue on my RTX3070! What you need is to install the latest Nvidia driver. Those are not available by default and requires you to add the Ubuntu PPA, then you are able to switch with the driver manager gui

    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Doesn't Mint offer those during the installation?

    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

    I don't think so? It comes preinstalled with nouveau, but also offer some proprietary drivers. But the latest need the Ubuntu ppa