• @RustyNova
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    1818 days ago

    Mint is my favourite distro. Is everything I want from my computer.

    … Except the Nvidia support. I need the actual proprietary driver for cuda and it’s not the easiest of rides.

    (I switched to Nobara for better support and now the drivers memory leak. I need the courage to distrohop again)

    • @Warl0k3
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      1118 days ago

      Debian with the mint UI. All of the debian memes, but none of the UI headaches!

      • @[email protected]
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        2118 days ago

        There’s also LMDE which is mint built on Debian instead of Ubuntu. The Mint guys had the foresight to prepare for a future when they’d get fed up with Ubuntu’s nonsense.

        • @Warl0k3
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          1218 days ago

          Dang it, you gotta come in here and tempt me to distrohop… That’s a dang attractive choice.

      • @[email protected]
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        217 days ago

        Same. I recently spent a few hours failing to either build gamescope from source or get the flatpak versions of gamescope and steam working together. Others got it working a few months ago, but their steps didn’t work for me and I just decided I’d rather spend my time playing without HDR than keep trying at it. Wouldn’t have been so hard on a disto better supported by gamescope.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 days ago

      Except the Nvidia support. I need the actual proprietary driver for cuda

      As far as I know, the open-source driver supports CUDA now, as long as you’re using version 560 or above and the latest CUDA packages. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-transitions-fully-towards-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

      We’ve been using the open-source driver with workstation-grade cards at my employer for a while. The open-source driver didn’t get full support for consumer-grade cards until version 560 which was only released around 6 months ago.

    • @ikidd
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      118 days ago

      Nobara has always been ahead on GPU drivers, I’m surprised you’re having issues