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As someone who hasn't used Gnome or KDE in some time. The issue I run into all the time has nothing to do with the desktop. It's Nvidia. Sometimes Realtek too.
by bobajeff 4y ago
As someone who hasn't used Gnome or KDE in some time. The issue I run into all the time has nothing to do with the desktop. It's Nvidia. Sometimes Realtek too.
I'm stuck on a specific release of my current distro because the whole system will randomly freeze forcing a hard reset (holding the power button for it to turn off) because of something I guess Nvidia's driver is doing to the kernel. Happens on any other distro or newer release of my current distro I've tried.
- yxhuvud 4y agoI had that as well. I 'solved' it by downgrading kernel version to 5.15. Perhaps it may work to upgrade it as well but that has other issues on my system.
- bobajeff 4y agoI think I might have to try that in the near future. I'm running into issues compiling projects because my package repositories version of things are just too old.:(
- loudmax 4y agoYeah, that's why I qualified my comment about the hardware drivers. If you can get by on an Intel or AMD GPU, those should be very stable. If you need the power of an Nvidia GPU you're at their mercy, so you will need to track kernel releases and driver versions and so on.
- bobajeff 4y agoYeah I originally got it for CUDA but now my card is too old for PyTorch. Plus, I quickly realized why most models are built on servers instead of PCs. So I have no use for it at the moment. Still, linux hardware compatibility seems to be far from a sure thing even avoiding Nvidia. I'm thinking of getting a Intel mini PC ThinkCenter for my next system. But I have no way of knowing what issues I'll have until I get it.