[zozbot234]

I'm sorry but nVidia proprietary driver and "just works" doesn't belong in the same sentence. Every Kernel version update is a crapshoot. Will need to wait for the new nVidia opensource support that's supposedly around the corner, any day now.

[gpm]

My experience has absolutely been that nvidia proprietary drivers "just work" including during kernel updates on arch linux. Maybe there's some sort of QA going on by the distro to only ship kernels that work with them? I don't know. For me it just works.

[gen3]

I can mirror what gpm said, I’ve never had a problem with the proprietary nvidia driver. The only annoyance is the requirement to reboot after an update, but that’s pretty standard everywhere.

[logicprog]

I've been using laptops with Nvidia dgpus and the proprietary drivers under Linux for about 3 to 4 years now, and I've literally never had any problem with the graphics card, the driver, its integration with my system, or anything else. The last year on a rolling release (openSUSE Tumbleweed), too. Maybe that's just me though, who knows.

[bpye]

I sort of agree but for different reasons.

I’ve never managed to get my GTX 1070 working on Linux without any caveats, though currently I’m closer than I’ve been before. If you’re happy using X11 life is relatively easy, though you probably end up needing a compositor to solve tearing - and if you have mixed refresh rates you’re seemingly out of luck even then.

Wayland is better with mixed refresh rates, and now mostly works. I say mostly as XWayland is still broken - you have to disable GLAMOUR and rely on software rendering for X applications. This is where I’ve currently settled as most software I use is native Wayland anyway.

Supposedly this’ll be fixed with a protocol change for explicit sync - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...

Of course if you have a newer GPU that can take advantage of Nvidia’s new open source kernel drivers with Nouveau and you don’t need CUDA this is all irrelevant.

[simion314]

>I'm sorry but nVidia proprietary driver and "just works" doesn't belong in the same sentence.

No issue for me on kubuntu LTS and I am using NVIDIA proprietary drivers since 7 years ago, I even experimented with various drivers to make wine games to work and never had issues. But maybe *ubuntu gets better testing and support from NVIDIA then other distribution,

[__loam]

Just chiming in to say I've had a Linux system for years with Nvidia gpus and I've never had an issue with it

[earthling8118]

I can chime in and say that I've had numerous issues over the years, every few months. Particularly when I want to update my kernel. It was a nightmare. Now that I am free from them I won't buy their products anymore because of how annoying it was.