I have always heard of problems with Nvidia and Linux, so when i bought a new computer last week i were close to get a new AMD card. Though there is some new cards comming Q1 this year from both Nvidia and AMD so i holded on to my old card (2060) until the new one comes. And i put it inside my new Ryzen computer, installed Fedora KDE Plasma edition to se if i could get the HDR working. Bootet the system, installed Nvidia drivers, updated the system and rebooted. And it just work, like a charm :D And all the games i have tested runs so much better then it did on windows. So now I am looking at maybe buying a new Nvidia card instead. We will see when the new cards comes. Edit: My card is a: ASUS GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB ROG STRIX GAMING OC EVO Answer from TheKeyboardChan on reddit.com
I have always heard of problems with Nvidia and Linux, so when i bought a new computer last week i were close to get a new AMD card. Though there is some new cards comming Q1 this year from both Nvidia and AMD so i holded on to my old card (2060) until the new one comes. And i put it inside my new Ryzen computer, installed Fedora KDE Plasma edition to se if i could get the HDR working. Bootet the system, installed Nvidia drivers, updated the system and rebooted. And it just work, like a charm :D And all the games i have tested runs so much better then it did on windows. So now I am looking at maybe buying a new Nvidia card instead. We will see when the new cards comes. Edit: My card is a: ASUS GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB ROG STRIX GAMING OC EVO Answer from TheKeyboardChan on reddit.com
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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: How's Nvidia on Linux now?
January 20, 2025 -
I'm looking to upgrade my PC from the trusty RX 580 and Nvidia GPUs would seem like a good option if not for their infamy in Linux world. But most infamies and "accepted truths" generally lag behind for 3-10 years, as indicated by the general public's view of Linux on desktop as a whole and I am generally not as up-to-date on hardware scene as a whole as I would want to be.
Is Nvidia still as bad as I think it is (barely useable) or has it improved in the last N years to the point that it's viable again?
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I have always heard of problems with Nvidia and Linux, so when i bought a new computer last week i were close to get a new AMD card. Though there is some new cards comming Q1 this year from both Nvidia and AMD so i holded on to my old card (2060) until the new one comes. And i put it inside my new Ryzen computer, installed Fedora KDE Plasma edition to se if i could get the HDR working. Bootet the system, installed Nvidia drivers, updated the system and rebooted. And it just work, like a charm :D And all the games i have tested runs so much better then it did on windows. So now I am looking at maybe buying a new Nvidia card instead. We will see when the new cards comes. Edit: My card is a: ASUS GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB ROG STRIX GAMING OC EVO
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Am I tripping or did I see this being asked like at least 3 times today
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Linux aarch64 Latest Production Branch Version: 595.84 Latest New Feature Branch Version: 610.43.02 Latest Legacy GPU version (470.xx series): 470.256.02 Archive
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3 weeks ago - You can create /etc/udev/rules.d/70-nvidia.rules to run it automatically: ... Regarding Xwayland take a look at Wayland#Xwayland. For further configuration options, take a look at the wiki pages or documentation of the respective compositor. Note Prior to driver version 555.xx, or when using a Wayland compositor that does not support Explicit Sync via the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 protocol, the NVIDIA driver can have major issues manifesting as flickering, out of order frames, and more, in both native Wayland and Xwayland applications.
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Which GPU's do NVIDIA fully support for Linux? - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums
January 16, 2025 - Hi guys, my question to you is this Which graphics cards does the Nvidia driver for Linux have FULL support for? Basically, I have several nvidia cards, a few different gaming computers, and based on my experience the nvidia driver for linux simply is the only bottleneck on my system that I cannot work around, which does not unlock the performance potential of my 3060 RTX GPU, like the drivers on Microsoft Windows do for it.
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NVIDIA Linux Update|NVIDIA
Fully supports all major Linux Operating Systems and CPUs Includes out of box support for Red Hat Linux, Mandrake and SuSE operating systems and all standard Intel and AMD 32-bit processors. However, if you want to use another Linux distribution, NVIDIA Linux Update will setup and install graphics ...
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r/nvidia on Reddit: How is Nvidia on Linux these days?
November 21, 2025 -
Hi all.
I've recently joined team green for the first time in 15 years after years of team red and most recently team blue (which was awful).
Obviously AMD is the king of Linux drivers but how does Nvidia match up these days?
What will I lose from the windows experience in Linux?
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The best way i can describe Nvidia on Linux is: imperfect? Yes, unusable? Definitely not!
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General/ballpark performance on Linux (Arch KDE Wayland) from my single player gaming box, can be very much game dependant: DirectX11 and older DirectX versions - performance is on par with Windows Vulkan titles - performance matches / exceeds Windows DirextX12 titles - performance hit currently, expect 10% to 18% lower framerates when compared to Windows Raytracing enabled in titles - 10% to 15% performance hit when compared to Windows, this is in addition to any API performance hit e.g. DirectX12 with raytracing total 20% to 33% less performance Must stress again, the above are general/ballpark figures based on a single system in singleplayer games.
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Download The Official NVIDIA Drivers | NVIDIA
NVIDIA's driver team exhaustively tests games from early access through release of each DLC to optimize for performance, stability, and functionality. These drivers are certified by Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). "NFB / SLB" New Feature Branch (NFB) [formerly known as Linux Short Lived Branch (SLB)] New Feature Branch Linux drivers provide early adopters and bleeding edge developers access to the latest driver features before they are integrated into the Production Branches.
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Linux Performance, Benchmarks & Open-Source News - Phoronix
When going through the VFIO subsystem patches for the ongoing Linux 7.2 merge window, there isn't too much to get excited about for end users with these changes. But there is the first time mentioning "Blackwell-Next" enablement by NVIDIA for the Linux kernel.
Reddit
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r/linux_gaming on Reddit: People who have Nvidia gpu on linux, how is it performing?
December 22, 2025 -
im thinking on getting a gpu for my desktop the rtx 3050 6gb to be exact
but i heard that its a hassle and something bout dx 12 issue
im new to linux so i got no idea what's goin on just wanna make sure that its playable and
usable:)
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My main PC has a 5080 (from a 3080) on Mint and my HTPC has a 5060 on CachyOS. It's fine. Works for what I need it to do - just understand that there's no feature parity. Means no DLDSR, Nvidia App or Nvidia Broadcast. Also, as my main is on Mint - it's on X11 and multi-monitor VRR is effectively broken (Works properly on single monitor). It's really not as bad as most would have you believe. Yes, some performance penalty is there on some games and AMD support is better, but it works.
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Mines been fine so far on Nobara. Haven't needed any crazy tweaks. Far more issues when I was using PopOS a few years ago, or when I was trying to manually install drivers on Debian. My understanding is there's also a big gap in performance and stuff between older gen and newer gen Nvidia GPUs.
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Most of NVIDIA's kernel modules are split into two components: An "OS-agnostic" component: this is the component of each kernel module that is independent of operating system. A "kernel interface layer": this is the component of each kernel module that is specific to the Linux kernel version and configuration.
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May 21, 2026 - The NVIDIA CUDA Installation Guide for Linux provides comprehensive instructions for installing the CUDA Toolkit across multiple Linux distributions and architectures. CUDA® is NVIDIA’s parallel computing platform that enables dramatic performance increases by harnessing GPU power for ...
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I tried gaming on Linux with an Nvidia GPU, and it's actually pretty solid
December 11, 2025 - This is an Arch-based Linux distribution that's particularly focused processor-specific optimizations to deliver better performance. It's not just for gaming, but I figured it would be a good fit.
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Nvidia and Linux: is this marriage bad? - Help & Support - LinuxCommunity.io
January 11, 2025 - Under Windows there’s absolutely no problems, drivers are unique and official released by mother company. But under Linux? Nvidia cards drivers were official released by Nvidia on Linux since 1999, so for long period until now. They were always ...
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Driver Installation Guide — NVIDIA Driver Installation Guide
The NVIDIA Driver Installation Guide provides administrators and users with comprehensive instructions and best practices for installing and configuring NVIDIA® GPU drivers on supported Linux distributions.
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NVIDIA - The Void Linux Handbook
Graphics cards starting with second generation Maxwell (GTX 9xx) do not support reclocking because the linux-firmware collection is missing signed firmware blobs needed to reclock these cards past their boot frequencies. The drivers provided by Nvidia offer better performance and power handling, ...
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Nvidia Drivers on Linux: What You Need to Know
April 5, 2025 - If a card was just released, you may want to wait a while before you try to run it on Linux to ensure that the proper drivers have landed, but support doesn’t typically lag too far behind. ... AMD is back in the fray but has to improve its GPUs to truly challenge NVIDIA.
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Explore the NVIDIA® Cumulus® Linux architecture, the industry’s most innovative open network operating system, which was developed under the guiding principles of easy implementation and management, customization, and scalability.
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Open source NVIDIA drivers are finally a thing? | Linux.org
January 13, 2025 - Don't the amdgpu drivers for AMD gpu's also container a propietary blob, as in from what I know most of the linux-firmware are propietary blobs? ... As to the particular commands for your distribution it depends, but in your Debian case I'd wholeheartedly recommend following Don't Break Debian if you find someone recommending adding Ubuntu or PPA repos. Click to expand... Looks like the open nvidia drivers are available on Debian.